sentences:  On December 16, 1976, the municipality passed a by-law to officially create the Coquitlam Public Library under the Provincial Library Act.A public Library Board was established in January 1977 and the library moved out of Centennial School and into two branches, Ridgeway and Cottonwood, in 1978.Cottonwood was moved to the nearby Burquitlam Branch in 1980.