Harlem Shake at Rochester's Gates Public Library Gets Shushed

Gates Public Library timeline
1961.  Library opens.

• Annual circulation: 61,488
• Collection:  7,587 books

1969.  Library opens in new and first permanent library facility.

• Annual circulation:  147,200
• Collection:  32,486

1979.

• Annual circulation:  279,584.  
• Collection:  70,856 items.

1989.  

• Annual circulation:  371,277 
• Collection:  122,462

1999.

• Annual circulation: 409,541 
• Collection:  134,134

2011.   Library moves into 2-story, 24,000-square-foot facility