Washoe County Library System is the public library system of Washoe County, Nevada .
4-798: The Downtown Reno Library is the main library of the Washoe County Library System , at 301 S. Center St. in Reno, Nevada . It occupies a historic Modern -style building listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Washoe County Library . It is known also as the Downtown Library . It was designed by Hewitt Campau Wells in Modern style and was built in 1965. The building received
8-555: A bond for new branches and extensive renovations and in a span of several months library usage increased by 17%. The library system did financially well until 2009 with the Great Recession . The county cut 500 county jobs then, and by 2015 there had been a 40% decline in the number of employees and in the library system's budget. By 2016 the library system was removing thousands of books which were not parts of historical collections and which had not been checked out by patrons in
12-464: The national Industrial Landscape Award in 1968 for its interior use of plants, shrubs, and trees as an integral part of its design. The award, presented by Lady Bird Johnson in Washington, D.C., was given specifically to architect Hewitt Wells, to landscape architect Mitchell Serven, and to Purdy and Fitzpatrick Nursery. Although the building was less than 50 years old, the usual requirement, it
16-635: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It has a fallout shelter which in 2015 was one of the few remaining ones in Reno. In 2014 Cengage Learning gave the library the award "coolest internal space", giving the library $ 500. This article about a property in Nevada on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Washoe County Library System In 2002 it had
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