page_title: Camarillo, California
section_title: Libraries
hierarchical_section_title: Camarillo, California / Arts and culture / Libraries
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the front entrance of the City of Camarillo Public Library. I took this picture for a class project in November 2009. The Rare Blends cafe is to the left of the entrance and the Friends of the Camarillo Library Book Store is adjacent to the cafe.
context_page_description: Camarillo is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 65,201, an increase of 8,117 from the 57,084 counted in the 2000 Census. The Ventura Freeway is the city's primary thoroughfare. Camarillo is named for Adolfo and Juan Camarillo, two of the few Californios to preserve the city's heritage after the arrival of Anglo settlers. The railroad coast route came through in 1898 and built a station here. Adolfo Camarillo eventually employed 700 workers growing mainly lima beans. Walnuts and citrus were also grown on the ranch. Adolfo bred Camarillo White Horses in the 1920s through the 1960s and was well known for riding them, dressed in colorful Spanish attire, in parades such as the Fiesta of Santa Barbara.
  The city grew slowly prior to World War II but the war effort saw the construction of the Oxnard Army Air Field to the west of town. The community also grew as the new base along with nearby Naval Air Station Point Mugu and a Seabee base at Port Hueneme brought many workers and their families to the area.
context_section_description: On October 13, 2010, the Camarillo City Council voted 5–0 to withdraw from the Ventura County Library System, and enter into a public-private contract with Library Systems & Services (LSSI) of Germantown, Maryland, a private company that administers several libraries throughout the United States, to provide locally hired staffing and to manage the day-to-day operations of the City of Camarillo Public Library. Under the partnership agreement, the library will remain in the public trust, managed by the City of Camarillo and operated by LSSI.
  On January 1, 2011, the City of Camarillo Public Library opened as a municipal public library.
caption: The City of Camarillo Public Library
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