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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 […]

By TODD MCHALE
Burlington County Times
If you have to wait to check out a book or use the computer at the local library, blame it on the economy.
The demand for libraries has been huge over the last several months.
“There’s an old saying “when business is bad libraries do well,’ ” said Gail Sweet, director of the […]

Stockton’s annual Family Day in the Park is fast approaching! This year, it will be held at the beautiful University Park in Midtown Stockton. It will be on Saturday, September 13, 2008 from 9:30 to 3:30 pm. University Park is located between Magnolia and California streets.

Over 80 businesses and organizations are scheduled to be at […]

Many students overlook the need to use their public libraries while in high school.

Parkway High School teacher Tracy Burrell has a goal to see that every incoming ninth-grade student owns a library card.
On Aug. 12, she invited the Bossier Parish Library Aulds Branch to participate in the back-to-school kickoff for Parkway High School freshmen.
Aulds […]

From May 16 to 18, Contra Costa County’s Library System will be throwing a three-day reading festival that includes “readings and circus acts, panel discussions and puppet theater at 25 libraries in the county system.”
The festival includes many big name guests, including “New York Times best-selling author Catherine Coulter, author of several suspense thrillers […]

Life is a learning process…even when you turn 70! Alferd Williams was illiterate all of his life, but after watching Alesia Hamilton’s class through the door after taking his grandchildren to school, Williams eventually got up the nerve to ask her to teach him to read.
It just goes to show that it doesn’t matter how […]

This past Saturday the Stockton-San Joaquin Library System hosted a summit to discuss the current state of the library system and to unveil their strategic, economics, and facilities plans. The Stockton-San Joaquin Library System hopes to concentrate their resources and efforts on achieving three main goals:
1. Creating and Empowering Readers
2. Creating a Comfortable Place
3. Connecting […]

The Library Summit Planning Meeting scheduled for next Monday, the 24th, has been canceled because of Christmas Eve. Instead, we are meeting this Friday, the 21st, at my house, to work on material for the Library Summit in January.
Directions to my house.

Downtown Kansas City has taken its library from being “some ivory-tower isolated repository of dead knowledge” to a brilliant architectural monument as it is dressed up with enlarged book bindings for the face of its parking structure.
The following are a few excerpts from various sources commenting on the library’s design:
“This project, located in the heart […]