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 Usually, people think of a library as a place to read books and check them out. The library is much more than that. It provides people a place to sit down and relax and enjoy the quietness. It also provides magazines, computers, printers, and DVDs for the people that can not afford it. Its high book shelves […]

BY Clare Trapasso
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, February 13th 2009, 2:56 AM

With the worsening economy, more people are turning to libraries - borrowing books instead of buying - to help weather the financial storm.
Patrons made almost 140,000 more trips to the Queens Borough Public Library’s 62 branches last year than in 2007. And they checked out […]

We know studies like these cannot be taken at face value. But they do point in a frightening direction. Last year, Forbes ranked Stockton as the 2nd most miserable city. According to Forbes, we are now the most miserable city in the United States. Our community needs solutions. It is in times like these […]

By Jennie Rodriguez
Record Staff Writer

STOCKTON - The rules have changed in 2009 for public library users in San Joaquin County.
Driven primarily by budget considerations, the Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library has reduced its hours, implemented stricter policies for overdue materials and reduced the number of items that can be checked out.
Amid those changes, the library […]

On November 13th at 6pm in the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship located in Callison Hall on University of the Pacific’s campus, Stockton2020 received its first community support grant from Asera Care Hospice. The grant was for $1,000 and will be used to fund 2020’s campaign projects for the upcoming year.
This was local history in […]

The Chicago Public Library system wants to smash the stereotypical image that it is nothing more than a place where old fogies congregate and read. So the Chicago Public Library is launching a new ad campaign Nov. 17 from All Terrain/Chicago that attempts to impress upon young adults of a post-college, pre-children age that their […]

Simon Romero, New York Times

A whimsical riff on the bookmobile, Mr. Soriano’s Biblioburro is a small institution: one man and two donkeys. He created it out of the simple belief that the act of taking books to people who do not have them can somehow improve this impoverished region, and perhaps Colombia.
In doing so, Mr. […]

Stockton2020 is honored to have been awarded San Joaquin A+’s “Spirit of Literacy Award.” We received the award along with other outstanding organizations and individuals during San Joaquin A+’s Spirit of Literacy Gala on September 18th. Along with the award came letters of recognition from the offices of Congressmen McNerney and Cardoza, Assembly members Agazarian, […]

The Associated Press
Article Launched: 09/07/2008 03:28:17 PM PDT
LONG BEACH—The City Council’s budget oversight committee dropped its proposal this week to close Long Beach’s 84-year-old main library. Could its members have heard that the 88-year-old author of “Fahrenheit 451″ was on his way to town to make things warm for them if they didn’t?

“Without libraries, we […]

Complaints are heard world wide of the lackluster spirit of change in today’s youth, 19-year old John Tyler Hammons at the University of Oklahoma begs to differ. He won the mayoral race on May 13, 2008 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, becoming one of the youngest mayors in the country.
“The public placing their trust in me is […]