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The Fresno County Public Library provides books, ebooks, music, movies, magazines, newspapers, reference assistance, wireless Internet access and a variety of other services at its 35 locations throughout Fresno County, California. The library system is headquartered in Fresno, [1] at the Central Library. The library is part of the San Joaquin ...
On November 4, 2008, San Joaquin County voted 65.5% in favor of Proposition 8 which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriages. For most of its history, San Joaquin County has been a Republican-leaning swing county, voting for the national winner in all but 4 presidential elections (1884, 1948, 1960, 1976) from 1880 to 2012.
The San Joaquin River (/ ˌ s æ n hw ɑː ˈ k iː n /; Spanish: Río San Joaquín) is the longest river of Central California.The 366-mile (589 km) long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean.
SJCL was founded in Fresno in 1969 by Fresno County Municipal Court Judge Dan Eymann, U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger, and attorney John Loomis. [1] [2] The school began instruction in 1970 on the campus of Fresno Pacific College (now Fresno Pacific University ). It remained there until 1980, when the campus moved to Shields Avenue.
The San Joaquin Valley ( / ˌsæn hwɑːˈkiːn / SAN whah-KEEN; Spanish: Valle de San Joaquín) is the southern half of California 's Central Valley. Famed as a major breadbasket, [1] the San Joaquin Valley is an important source of food, producing a significant part of California's agricultural output. San Joaquin Valley draws from eight ...
Built in 2003, King Library is the first joint use library in the United States shared by a major university as its only library and a large city as its main library. It has more than 1.6 million items. The building has nine floors that result in more than 475,000 square feet (44,100 m 2) of space with a capacity for 2 million volumes.
Website. www .deltacollege .edu. San Joaquin Delta College ( Delta College) is a public community college in Stockton, California. It was founded in 1935 as Stockton Junior College. [6] The college serves a district area that includes all of San Joaquin County and parts of Alameda, Calaveras, Sacramento, and Solano counties.
The San Joaquin Superior Court, which covers the entire county, is not a County department but a division of the State's trial court system.Historically, the courthouses were county-owned buildings that were maintained at county expense, which created significant friction since the trial court judges, as officials of the state government, had to lobby the county Board of Supervisors for ...