Santa Ana
Library Plan OKd: Seeking to upgrade the Central Library, the City Council has agreed to transfer $50,000 from an architectural fund to pay for a long-range master plan for library service. The library, built in 1960 to house 150,000 books, today contains 200,000. A 1977 study found that the library was the most overcrowded city department. In 1982, a Civic Center master plan concluded that the library needed an additional 58,500 square feet of floor space.
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