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Congratulations to our Costa Mesa Fish Fry Raffle Winners! |
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| C. Fogarty and L. Mamola each won a basket full of popular books & audiobooks that we displayed at the Costa Mesa Fish Fry. We heard from a lot of supporters and hope to continue to show up at local events like this. |
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Join Us on FaceBook! |
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| If you haven't already done so, please join our FaceBook page. We need garner as many fans as possible and can use your help to get residents and businesses in Costa Mesa to learn more about our cause through our FaceBook outreach.
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Costa Mesa Library Foundation Joins Ralphs Community Contribution Program
To help increase support for a new central library, we ask that all friends, family, and supporters sign up for a Ralphs Rewards card, open an online account at Ralphs.com, and select the Costa Mesa Library Foundation as your Community Contribution Partner. For more details, please e-mail info@costamesalibraryfoundation.org or call 949-280-7793. There are four Ralphs stores in or around Costa Mesa where you can shop:
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Library history in Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa has various sections, including the Eastside, the Westside, the northern and newer parts, and the old downtown. Our city has long needed a unifying force, a destination where all Costa Mesa’s diverse neighborhoods and cultures can find a common ground, where children and adults alike can be enlightened, where education is equally accessible to all. A main library in the center of the city, large enough to offer all these services, would become Costa Mesa’s premier civic space - a unifying source of pride to all our citizens.
Costa Mesa is a fairly young city - it recently celebrated just 50 years as an incorporated entity. 100 years ago Stephen Townsend purchased land from the Irvine Company and subdivided it into 5-acre plots that became Newport Heights. This was the beginning of what is now Costa Mesa’s old downtown. Other subdivisions adjacent to Newport Heights soon followed, and by 1923 the citizens of this small, unincorporated area of about 2,000 people had a town library - one of the first in the Orange County Library system. Though the facility was replaced several times, it wasn’t until 1965 when the city had pushed northward to new borders that another small library was built to serve the people in those northern subdivisions. A very small library for computer access was added in 2002. Despite these additions our city currently has the smallest square footage of library space in the state for a city the size of Costa Mesa.
What can be done about this? What level of library service should we work to have?
| Mission Statement
The Costa Mesa Library Foundation is dedicated to planning and raising funds for a central library in the city, to augment current library facilities and to expand library services.
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Vision Statement
The vision is a large state-of-the-art library - a highly visible symbol of the values we share for learning and enriching the lives of all Costa Mesa citizens. The library will be a cultural, educational and informational resource for teens, children, and adults of all ages.
This new library will have the space and staff to meet the needs of our diverse community -offering a broad range of materials and up-to-date technologies. It will be the cornerstone of Costa Mesa’s educational system, providing toddler’s very first literary experience, empowering the adult learner, supporting the professional’s pursuit of lifelong enrichment, and engaging the hobbyist and enthusiast. It will connect the various segments of our community with its collections, programs and gathering spaces. The building itself will be developed as a civic role model of sustainability and energy conservation - to benefit not only our generation, but also those in the future.
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