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Midland Library

Library in Oregon

Field	Value
name	Midland Library
image	Midland Library in Portland.jpg
caption	Clock tower and entrance in 2012
map_type	Portland
owner	Multnomah County Library
address	805 S.E. 122nd Avenue
location_town	Portland, Oregon
location_country	United States
coordinates
opened_date	September 16, 1996
floor_area	25000 ft2
architecture_firm	Thomas Hacker and Associates
website	[Midland Library](http://events.multcolib.org/venues/midland-library)

The Midland Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials.

History

Bookmobiles, reading rooms, and small branch libraries provided much of the public library service to Portland neighborhoods in the first half of the 20th century. A library study in 1955 recommended switching to a system of larger branches supported by sub-branches and bookmobiles.

The large Midland branch opened at S.E. 122nd Avenue and S.E. Morrison Street in 1958 and was the second branch in the county system to serve suburban residents. Oregon authors present at its dedication included Stewart Holbrook, Dorothy Johansen, and others. The 5600 ft2 building cost $90,000; it initially housed 12,000 volumes, with plans to extend the collection to 20,000. The building offered bicycle racks. By the early 1960s, the library floor area had been expanded to 6580 ft2.

Until the 1990 opening of the new Gresham Library building (13 times the size of the building it replaced), the Midland was considered the second busiest in the county system, after Portland's Central Library. In 1993, Multnomah County voters agreed to spend $5.3 million for a new Midland Library building at the same site along S.E. 122nd Avenue. Thomas Hacker and Associates was the architectural firm for the project and Silco Construction the general contractor. The new library opened on September 16, 1996. It has a floor area of 25000 ft2 and can hold up to 150,000 books.

In 2024, the library closed temporarily for interior renovations and additions funded by a 2020 building bond..

References

"Midland Library". [[Multnomah County Library]].
(June 3, 2011). "Midland Library History". Multnomah County Library.
(March 16, 1958). "Official Opening of New Midland Library Scheduled on Monday". The Oregonian.
Ruble, Web. (September 28, 1989). "Gresham Library Will Be a 'Superbranch'". The Oregonian.
"Midland Library history {{!}} Multnomah County Library".

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