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FUTURE LIBRARY SERVICE POLICY
11/11/74
The City of Newport Beach has a unique geographical configuration that pre-
cludes the provision of library services from one central location.
Consequently, in order to provide more library accessibility to the residents,
the Newport Beach library system has been based on a library branch concept.
To fulfill this policy, the City has been fairly evenly divided into four
geographical areas: the Peninsula and West Newport; the Newport Heights
and Mariners area; Corona del Mar; Newport Center, Big &nyon, Bluffs and
Harbor View Hills area. In each area, a library has ;4t, or will be
established to meet, the reading needs of the citizenly. The four libraries
shall be: Balboa, Mariners, Corona del Mar and Newport Center.
The proposed Newport Center Library shall be th
Spyglass Hill, Harbor View Hills and other resi
northeast sector of the City. It shall also be
tive services and technical processing. These
housed in other libraries and additional space
functioning. With the construction of this lib
space in the library system, to cope with the p
and the requirements it places on the system to
collection and increase the depth of the refero
fulfilled. Since this northeast area is the fk
Beach, a library should be built in this areala
1 rary for the Bluffs,
e ial communities in the
t e location of administra-
ices are now inadequately
needed for efficient
ry, the need for additional
ojected population growth
expand the scope of the
ce materials, shall be
test growing area in Newport
soon as possible.
To finance the Newport Center Library, a min um of one -half of the Building
Excise Tax Fund shall be earmarked for the co struction of the Newport Center
Library until adequate funds have accrued to1lfinance the building. In addi-
tion, the Library Board and Friends of the L brary shall work for gifts and
contributions, and the City Council may also earmark a portion of the tax rate
to be used to help construct the Newport Center Library.
If revenues accrue as projected, it is anticipated that by the end of the
calendar year 1976 there will be adequate funds to begin building the library.
Through Joint planning, the Library and the Art Museum can compliment each
other. The City Council urges the Art Museum to work with the Irvine Company
and the City, to expedite mutually beneficial plans.
In addition to the four libraries, it is the goal of the City to insure the
adequacy of reading materials available to children. Therefore, the Library
Board of Trustees has established a policy to either: 1) establish a children's
library when no school libraries are readily accessible to children, or 2)
augment the school libraries through increased collections and /or staffing
hours to promote library use by young peopl. To accomplish this goal, the
following children's libraries are or will considered for support to some
degree by the City: 1) West Newport Beach hildren's Library; 2) Eastbluff
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Elementary School Library; 3) Roy 0. Andersen School;`Library. Such school
library support will be forthcoming only when 1) yaranch library is not
readily accessible to the children; 2) such augmetion of school services
does not supplant the school's budgetary obligatio and 3) current level
of library services is not diminished because of such support.
Adopted - February 25, 1974
Amended - November 11, 1974