City of Oakland Park

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About Us Ethel M. Gordon Oakland Park Library Free to the People Since 1958. Statement of purpose The strategic the Ethel M. Gordon Oakland Park Library is to meet the instructive, social, and recreational data needs of the Oakland Park people group in a way which would guarantee top quality, dynamic assistance and advantageous access to all in our various network. The Library decides to give a difficult long-lasting learning condition offering a shifted, current and noteworthy accumulation of library materials, innovation, projects, and exercises that will encourage the making of information in our locale. Ethel M. Gordon Oakland Park Library In Honor of Ethel M. Gordon 1897-1973 In 1951, Ethel M. Gordon drove the Women's Club in the production of a civil library system that has developed into the present-day Oakland Park Library. She gave her very own books to help start the gathering and turned into the principal volunteer to staff the Library which began in the Oakland Park Women's Clubhouse. Ms. Gordon kept running for a seat on the City Commission on a one-issue battle, which was to build up a library in the city. She won her seat and was selected on January 4, 1956. The City of Oakland Park Library opened February 10, 1958. In acknowledgment of her endeavors, the Oakland Park City Commission decided on October 16, 2013 to officially name the Library the Ethel M. Gordon Oakland Park Library..