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Today in Westside Library History: Library Association Plans new Westside Library, 1977

Director of the El Paso Public Libraries and the El Paso Public Library Association made plans to use a trailer for the location of the new Westside Library. The trailer had previously been used to house the Pavo Real Branch Library in Ysleta.

Read more here: El Paso Herald-Post 16 June 1977

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