Pleasanton Public Library

With $1,100 they raised at an "Old Maid's Convention" and other fundraisers, they purchased a site to house the Reading Room.

[1] The library has grown to keep pace with Pleasanton as it changed from an agricultural town to a suburban residential community and one of the modern business centers of the East Bay area.

In 1987, the city recognized the need for an even larger library and began construction on the current 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) facility, which opened in 1988.

In 1999, in response to significant funding losses to the Alameda County Library system generated by California's "Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund", the City of Pleasanton withdrew from the system to become a municipal library.

[2] The director of the City of Pleasanton Library and Recreation Department is Heidi Murphy.