Long Beach makes it official: It’s the Billie Jean King Main Library now

By Josh Rosen, Contributing writer
Almost 100 years after the ratification of the 19th amendment, the Billie Jean King Main Library opened to the public on Saturday, Sept. 21, with tremendous fanfare — and no shortage of people to fill it.
The crowd was excited to celebrate the grand opening of the new Billie Jean King Main Library, a 92,500-square-foot LEED Gold-certified building that includes space for about 300,000 books. The new facility also offers a Family Learning Center, the Cente