River Forest Public Libraryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The River Forest Women's Club was the impetus for the establishment of a public library in the community in the late 1890's. In 1898 and 1899 the Woman’s Club worked to establish a tax levy to support the library and to set up elections to select the first library board of trustees. The library first opened up as a storefront in 1903 and was housed in another leased building in 1904. From 1905 through 1929 the library was located at 508 Park Avenue, on land donated by Mr. George Gertz, in a building built by R.C. Spencer, a prairie school architect. The library opened at 508 Park with 1000 volumes and the first librarian was Mrs. Stella H. Nida, who had a salary of $15 a month. The library was first used for a program in 1908. In the library volumes and use continued to grow and in 1928-1929 a new library building at 735 Lathrop Avenue was constructed. In the 1970’s the Friends of the Library group was created. Ground was broken on the addition to the library in 1989 and was completed in 1992.