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The library building has been expanded twice, in 1970 and 1985 to its current size of 60,800 square feet (5,650 m). In 2007, a bond measure for $ 108 million for construction of a new library building failed to pass, receiving only 59.08% of votes cast, short of the 2/3 majority needed for
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