Time to Find Shirlington’s Other Bookdrops! The Shirlington Branch Library’s
Director Aaron Posner, Actor Erin Weaver, and Baby Interviewed by Signature
Architecture and Botanicals On Exhibit at the Shirlington Branch Library, April
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Express Yourself With Literary “Backbone” For National Poetry Month, the
Jefferson Farber and Joel David Santner, and Director Joe Calarco
Michael Novak in Siganture’s “God of Carnage” Brownstein is a
1947 - First library in Shirlington (then Fairlington) rents space at 2780 S Randolph St., in the Shirlington Trust Building.
1952 - Library space expands.
1955 - Library space expands again.
June 1962 - County breaks ground on new Shirlington Library building at 2700 South Arlington Mill Drive.
2000 - Plans for current location approved.
2001 - Arlington Mill Drive building razed; Shirlington Branch Library moves to temporary storefront location in lower section of Village at Shirlington.
Nov. 2006 - Flood in the restaurant above the temporary Shirlington Branch location forces early closure of temporary space.
March 2007 - New Shirlington Branch location, at 4200 Campbell Ave, opens with three times more space than the previous temporary home.
Book Dating for Singles–Shirlington
