Cambridge Public Library Representatives from many of the city’s ethnic communities attend the opening of the Ethnic Heritage Center at Cambridge Public Library’s branch in East Cambridge in 1981.

The Cambridge Public Library announced in the summer of 1979 that it had received a $36,500 grant under the Library Services and Construction Act to create an Ethnic Heritage Center at the East Cambridge Branch Library. According to the Cambridge Chronicle, the goal of the center was “to provide resource materials in a neighborhood location through which students and adults may be encouraged to investigate and benefit from the variety of experience and accomplishment which resides in their ethnic heritage.” The original plan called for two centers – one at the East Cambridge Branch for Italian,

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