Since

1930 System Headquarters: 2469 Montrose Avenue, Abbotsford, British Columbia = V2S 3T2

ree FRASER VALLEY REGIONAL LIBRARY

Telephone 604-859-7i4] : .
Howard Overend, Direcior

October 17, 1975.

COUNC

BRIEF TO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS NOV -~3 1975

Re. New Library Headquarters Building

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For some time the Board of Management of the Fraser
Valley Regional Library has been deeply concerned about
the inadequacy of its headquarters building in Abbotsford.
The Board's Building Committee has put in many hours of

-work on the project in the last two years and following

the appointment of Mr. Gordon Yuen, B. Arch., M.R.A.I.C.,
as architect in July, the Board has recently given approval
in principle to design work he has produced. To inform
Council about the project and the reasons for it, the fe
Board of Management has directed me to submit this brief
for Council's attention.

The present headquarters building was constructed in
1953 on land donated by the Village of Abbotsford. A

- second floor was added in 1960, the total floor space now

being 10,834 sq. ft. This expansion was a direct result

of growth of library service threughout the Valley, i.e.

in the seven years before 1960 the number of books borrowed
increased by 123% and since 1960 it has increased in like
amount. Today in 1975 with an annual circulation of more
than 2 1/2 million books and films, and a bookstock of
380,000 volumes in 30 branches, the Fraser Valley Regional
Library is seriously hampered by the overcrowded conditions
of its own administrative headquarters.

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