page_title: List of Hennepin County Library branches
section_title: Former libraries
hierarchical_section_title: List of Hennepin County Library branches / Former libraries
caption_attribution_description: English: This bookmobile served Richfield until its public library opened in 1951.
context_page_description: The Hennepin County Library, which serves Hennepin County, Minnesota, including the city of Minneapolis, consists of 41 branches in 24 cities and towns. Of these, 15 are in Minneapolis; collectively they made up the Minneapolis Public Library until they were absorbed by the Hennepin system in the merger. Four branches were originally founded as Carnegie libraries. Several other libraries, separate from the system, also operate within the county's boundaries.
  Many of the branches of the current library system were established by entities other than the system itself. The Minneapolis Public Library was founded in 1885 to serve Minneapolis, the county's largest city. It opened its first two branches in 1890. During the 1890s, many areas of Minnesota, especially rural zones, lacked free libraries. Over the course of the decade a patchwork of private and legislative efforts sought to deal with the dearth. The city of Hopkins established its own independent library system in 1912; in 1913, other Minnesota cities including Wayzata and Robbinsdale were recorded as having library associations or clubs of their own.
context_section_description: Historically, the library operated a bookmobile that started in 1922. In 1955, the bookmobile was serving 1,500–1,600 families and 16 schools, and in 1962 that figure was up to 6,000 families. The library still offers outreach services in the form of mailing or delivering materials to the home of patrons unable to physically access the library system.
  The following libraries are no longer operational:
  Crystal Bay (closed in August 1955)
  Dayton (1968–1978)
  Hamel (1922–1968)
  Longfellow (closed in 1968 and replaced by the Nokomis Library)
  Morningside (closed in December 1976)
  North Community Library (the city's first branch library; 1893–1979)
  Seven Corners (1912–1964)
  Stubbs Bay (closed in August 1955)
  Robbinsdale (community now served by the Rockford Road library)
  The Hennepin County Library formerly operated school libraries in rural communities and a library in Glen Lake Sanatorium.
caption: Historic Hennepin County Library bookmobile
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