About Shoreline Library
Opened: September 12, 1993
Overview
- Designed by Portico/Johnston
- 20,954 square feet
History
- 1944: Ronald Council of Parents and Teachers and the Volunteer Firemen's Association open The Richmond Highlands Library
- 1946: Library moves to North 183rd Street between Aurora Avenue North and Linden Avenue North
- 1947: Richmond Highlands Association opens a 450-square-foot library in a Paine Field war surplus building at North 178th Street and Linden Avenue North
- 1960: Formation of Shoreline Library Guild; Construction of new Shoreline Library begins
- 1965: KCLS annexation
- 1966: Shoreline Library opens
- 1975: 15,000-square-foot expanded library opens
- 1993: Opening of new, 20,000-square-foot Shoreline Library
- 1995: Formation of the Shoreline Library Board
Friends of the Shoreline Library
- Dues: Individual, $10; Family, $25; Sponsor, $50; Patron, $100
- Book Sales: Ongoing sale in library; Annual book sale in September
- Other Fundraisers: Book bags
- Meetings: Bimonthly
- Friends of the Shoreline Library was founded in 1963.
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