Miami-Dade's new Main Public Library opened with a splash on July 19, 1985, with a long line of library employees and patrons, some dressed as literary characters, passing books hand to hand down Flagler Street and into the new library.

This clip includes reporter Nick Bogert's Live Eye coverage of the opening and a longer clip of books making their journey up Flagler Street.

The new library, located on the Miami-Dade Cultural Plaza, featured artwork by Ed Ruscha and would soon become home to a film and video archive, the Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, which has since changed its name -- to the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives -- and its address to the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College.

This video and audio is copyrighted/owned by the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives.

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