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Hennepin County Library
Established	1885
Location	; Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States;
Branches	41 (list)
Website	www.hclib.org

The Minneapolis Central Library in downtown Minneapolis, designed by César Pelli, completed in 2006

The first central Minneapolis Public Library, early 1900s

2011 HCL library card

Ridgedale Library, HCL's headquarters

Hennepin County Library is a public library system serving the entire population of Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA. The current iteration of Hennepin County Library was formed by the merger of urban Minneapolis Public Library and suburban Hennepin County Library on January 1, 2008. The system has 41 library locations, deposit collections at nursing homes and correctional facilities, mail service to the homebound and extensive outreach services. The Library is a department of Hennepin County Government. The library headquarters are in the Ridgedale Library in suburban Minnetonka.^[1] The library system has an eleven-member advisory Library Board appointed by the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners.^[2] It is a member of the Metropolitan Library Service Agency, a consortium of eight Twin Cities library systems.

Minneapolis Public Library was founded in 1885 with the establishment of the Minneapolis Public Library Board by an amendment of the Minneapolis city charter. Minneapolis Public Library’s first building was the Main Library, opened in 1889. Minneapolis Public Library later added community library branches to supplement the main library. The first branch was North Branch, established in 1890, more branches in south and east Minneapolis followed and the system grew with the city.^[3]

Hennepin County Library started in 1922 as a horse-drawn "bookmobile" to areas outside the core city of Minneapolis. The system saw a large increase in use in the period between 1950 and 1980 as more people moved into suburban areas of the county. By 1952 there were 24 libraries in the system, additional city libraries such as Hopkins, were incorporated into the county system. Hennepin County Library opened its first area library, Southdale, in 1973. In the early 1970s plans were in place to merge the Minneapolis Public Library with the HCL, however the Minneapolis library system reconsidered and merger plans were put on hold.^[4] Ultimately the two library systems reached an agreement and the merger was finalized on January 1, 2008 under the name of Hennepin County Library.^[5]

Libraries

Minneapolis

East Lake Library

Franklin Library

Hosmer Library

Linden Hills Library

Minneapolis Central Library

Nokomis Library

North Regional Library

Northeast Library

Pierre Bottineau Library

Roosevelt Library

Southeast Library

Sumner Library

Walker Library

Washburn Library

Webber Park Library

Suburban Hennepin County

Augsburg Park Library (Richfield)

Brookdale Library (Brooklyn Center)

Brooklyn Park Library

Champlin Library

Eden Prairie Library

Edina Library

Excelsior Library

Golden Valley Library

Hopkins Library

Long Lake Library

Maple Grove Library

Maple Plain Library

Minnetonka Library

Osseo Library

Oxboro Library (Bloomington)

Penn Lake Library (Bloomington)

Plymouth Library

Ridgedale Library (Minnetonka)

Rockford Road Library (Crystal)

Rogers Library

Southdale Library (Edina)

St. Anthony Library

St. Bonifacius Library

St. Louis Park Library

Wayzata Library

Westonka Library (Mound)

City locations

Bloomington (2)

Brooklyn Center

Brooklyn Park

Champlin

Crystal

Eden Prairie

Edina (2)

Excelsior

Golden Valley

Hopkins

Long Lake

Maple Grove

Maple Plain

Minneapolis (15)

Minnetonka (2)

Mound

Osseo

Plymouth

Richfield

Rogers

St. Anthony

St. Bonifacius

St. Louis Park

Wayzata

Bookmobile

The Hennepin County Free Library started operating a bookmobile (then called a book wagon) in 1922.^[6]

HCL directors

Gratia Countryman 1922–1925

Ethel Berry 1925–1947

Helen Young 1947–1969

Robert H. Rohlf 1969–1994

Charles M. Brown 1994–2004

Amy Ryan 2005–2008

Lois Langer Thompson 2009–2018

References

^ "About Hennepin County Library Archived 2010-02-25 at the Wayback Machine.." Hennepin County Library. Retrieved on March 24, 2010. "Hennepin County Library launched in 1922; its headquarters are at Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka, Minn."

^ "[1]." Hennepin County Library Board. Retrieved on January 20, 2015.

^ "Library Book," by Bruce Weir Benidt, published 1984.

^ History of Hennepin County Library, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2011-11-02.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em, p. 17

^ "Library Merger Updates." Hennepin County Library. Retrieved on October 4, 2010. "[...]allowing the merger to take place Jan. 1, 2008."

^ Hennepin County Library, "In the Beginning", "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-20. Retrieved 2014-10-04.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) , retrieved October 4, 2014.

External links

Hennepin County Library

HCL merger page (Archive)

pdf of history of HCL

[1] "About Hennepin County Library Archived 2010-02-25 at the Wayback Machine.." Hennepin County Library. Retrieved on March 24, 2010. "Hennepin County Library launched in 1922; its headquarters are at Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka, Minn."

[2] "[1]." Hennepin County Library Board. Retrieved on January 20, 2015.

[3] "Library Book," by Bruce Weir Benidt, published 1984.

[4] History of Hennepin County Library, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2011-11-02.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em, p. 17

[5] "Library Merger Updates." Hennepin County Library. Retrieved on October 4, 2010. "[...]allowing the merger to take place Jan. 1, 2008."

[6] Hennepin County Library, "In the Beginning", "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-20. Retrieved 2014-10-04.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) , retrieved October 4, 2014.

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