page_title: Huntington Beach Public Library
section_title: Ron Hayden
hierarchical_section_title: Huntington Beach Public Library / History / 1980s–present: The Huntington Beach Public Library today / Ron Hayden
caption_attribution_description: Ron Hayden, Huntington Beach Public Library Director from 1985 - 2008
context_page_description: The Huntington Beach Public Library is a library system located in Huntington Beach, California. It offers online databases, print and electronic books and magazines, children's programs, computer lab, DVD movies, CD music, and audiobooks for anyone with a Huntington Beach Library card. Library cards are free to California residents. Free wireless access is available at all locations without a card.
  The library is financed and governed by the City of Huntington Beach, California. Volunteers also subsidize the library system by selling used books, operating a gift shop, and running charitable events. In 2015, volunteers donated 57,731 hours towards the library. The first library in Huntington Beach opened in 1909 and has since evolved to a five-location library system: Central, Main Street, Oak View, Helen Murphy, and Banning.
context_section_description: From 1985 until 2008, Ron Hayden served as Library Director. Knowing that library funding was often precarious during lean budget years, he insured the library's survival by establishing innovative revenue streams through development fees, media and room rentals, videoconferencing, and Friends of the Library used book sales. In 1992, Hayden was named Librarian of the Year by the California Library Association.
caption: Ron Hayden
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