Library Cards
Burnham Library issues its first official barcoded library cards.
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75th Anniversary
Burnham Library celebrates it’s 75th Anniversary. Children’s activities, including a display of vintage cars and trucks, are held on Saturday, August 4, while adult programs and the All Bridgewater Artists…
Automation Project
The Library’s automation project was successfully completed, making it easier and faster to check out books, find materials, and manage the collection.
Computers
Children’s library gets two new Mac computers.
Brooks- Piggott Ribbon Cutting
Ribbon cutting for the new Brooks- Piggott Wing.
Library Addition
Plans for the Van Wyck Memorial Addition to Burnham Library are approved by the Board. The project, funded by the Van Wyck Brooks Memorial Fund, has a construction cost not…
Burton Bernstein
Burton Bernstein, a longtime Bridgewater resident, publishes an article on the Piggott Bequest in the December 18,1978 issue of the New Yorker. (Piggott Bequest scrapbook at the library for full…
Piggott Estate
On January 7, the L.A. Court awards the Piggott Estate to the Board of Trustees of the Burnham Library Association for the Van Wycks Memorial Fund.
Charles E. Piggott
The Van Wycks Memorial Fund receives an unexpected $300,000 bequest from Charles E. Piggott, a reclusive Los Angeles resident with no connection to Bridgewater.
Duplicating Machine
The Library Board contemplates if the Library should get a “duplicating machine.”