Holgate Library

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| owner = Multnomah County Library

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| location = Foster-Powell

| address = 7905 S.E. Holgate Boulevard

| location_town = Portland, Oregon

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| opened_date = May 19, 1971

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| renovation_date = October 17, 2000

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| architecture_firm = Allen, McMath, Hawkins Architects

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The Holgate Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.{{cite web|url=http://events.multcolib.org/venues/holgate-library|title=Holgate Library|accessdate=August 22, 2012|publisher=Multnomah County Library|archive-date=July 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712195007/http://events.multcolib.org/venues/holgate-library|url-status=live}}

Description and history

The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials. Opening on May 19, 1971, it replaced the Arleta and Lents branch libraries, though the area had been served as early as 1904 with a deposit station in a drug store in Lents.{{cite news|author=Staff|title=Multnomah County Library's Holgate Branch to reopen|url=http://djcoregon.com/news/2000/10/04/multnomah-county-library8217s-holgate-branch-to-reopen/|accessdate=7 November 2012|newspaper=Daily Journal of Commerce|date=October 4, 2000|archive-date=2 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200836/http://djcoregon.com/news/2000/10/04/multnomah-county-library8217s-holgate-branch-to-reopen/|url-status=live}} Renovated in 2000, it has {{convert|6060|ft2|m2}} of floor space and can hold up to 30,000 volumes.{{cite web|title=Holgate Library History|url=http://multcolib.org/agcy/hgt-history.html|publisher=Multnomah County Library|date=November 18, 2011|accessdate=November 3, 2012|archive-date=July 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712194914/http://multcolib.org/agcy/hgt-history.html|url-status=live}} The renovations included seismic upgrades, a new roof, new windows, and a solar-powered electricity back-up system, among other items.{{cite news|author=Staff|title=Solar power lights library in emergency|url=http://djcoregon.com/news/2000/11/13/solar-power-lights-library-in-emergency/|accessdate=7 November 2012|newspaper=The Daily Journal of Commerce|date=November 13, 2000|archive-date=2 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200834/http://djcoregon.com/news/2000/11/13/solar-power-lights-library-in-emergency/|url-status=live}} In February 2008, the branch added the county's only teen and children's librarians.{{cite news|last=Koffman|first=Rebecca|title=Neighborhood News Updates|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=April 3, 2008|page=Metro Portland Neighbors, 8}}

Holgate was cited, along with the Midland and Belmont branches, as one of several branches serving the Montavilla neighborhood, when that neighborhood's branch was sold by the county in 2005.{{cite news

|title=County Will Sell Former Montavilla Library Site

|work=The Oregonian

|date=April 15, 2005

|first=Amy

|last=Hsuan

}}{{cite news

|title=Proposal Calls for Selling Library

|work=The Oregonian

|date=March 16, 2005

|first=Amy

|last=Hsuan

}}