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Article: From bookmobile beginnings Schaumburg Township District Library keeps pace with area growth by building, branching out.(Neighbor)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2006
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Byline: Sheila Ahern Daily Herald Staff Writer
The Schaumburg Township District Library did not start out as the second-largest library in Illinois.
It started out on wheels - as a bookmobile back in 1960.
Eventually, Schaumburg grew, and so did the library - into the Hoffman Elementary School. Then in 1962, voters supported a new Schaumburg Township Public Library and the next year, the library had its very own building at Roselle and Schaumburg roads.
But it still wasn't big enough.
Magazines were kept in a bathroom above a bathtub. Fiction books were in a bedroom. Children's books in the living room.
Soon it was ...