Joined
by library officials and fellow state lawmakers, Senator Kennedy announced the state has directed $ 617,970 in construction and improvement grants to the Downtown Central Library, as part of the overall award of $ 740,000 to a total of four libraries in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System.
The idea for the partnership was proposed last summer, but had been dismissed
by library officials in November because of the status of the project, library officials said.
Not exact matches
It has drawings for a $ 15 million, 73,000 - square - foot facility, and
officials thought ground would be broken for the city's third
library by August.
Library officials had hoped a third city
library to be located near Neuqua Valley High School would be well under construction
by this time.
But last week,
library officials approved one of several plans presented
by architects from Philips Swager Associates.
Now that the Naperville City Council has given its verbal — and financial — blessing to build the city's third
library on the southwest side,
library officials are forging ahead with an ambitious time line to open a 93,000 - square - foot recreation campus that it will, at least temporarily, share with the city's Park District
by the fall of 2002.
The Zoning Board tabled the Park District proposal until its Dec. 3 meeting,
by which time park
officials hope to have reached an intergovernmental agreement with
library officials.
Biviano tied the
library financing issue to PR firm Berlin Rosen and
by connection, Sikora, Forrest City Ratner, the Brooklyn Public
Library and a host of
officials.
Erie County Legislator John J. Mills will be joined
by Village of Springville and Town of Concord
officials, along with
library personnel, for the 9th annual Hulbert
Library of the Town of Concord Hot Dog Roast Fundraiser.
Senator George Latimer, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, and Assemblyman Tom Abinanti were joined
by several regional Westchester County
library officials to announce the repeal of the MTA Payroll Tax for New York P
The final plan was approved
by the City Council last year after tense closed - door negotiations between elected
officials, and includes reconstruction of the Brooklyn Heights
Library, a new
library for DUMBO and Vinegar Hill, 114 new affordable units in Clinton Hill and a new STEM lab for District 13 students.
CHINATOWN — A set of surveillance cameras will be installed at a Chinatown
library after a young girl was sexually assaulted there last month
by an individual who remains at large,
officials said.
Federal
officials have dramatically overhauled the E-rate program to prioritize expanded support for broadband and wireless connectivity, through the approval of a series of changes that have been widely hailed
by education,
library, technology, and industry groups as much needed and long overdue.
Chicago Public Schools will open more than 100 school,
library and park district sites to students affected
by Friday's one - day teacher walkout, but district
officials warn they can't accommodate all 300,000 - plus kids, and parents should find an alternate option if possible.
The
library system, dubbed BiblioTech, proposes to make thousands of e-books available for county residents both online and at a 5,000 - square - foot physical location on the South Side of the county, according to a statement issued
by Bexar County
officials.
The
official roll - out of the program should still hit most USA
libraries by the end of the year.
Amazon
officials said that with Kindle
Library Lending,
library - ebooks managed
by OverDrive will now be available for all generations of Kindle devices and for use with free Kindle reading apps on most other devices, including Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone.
As of November 2007, the Dreamcast has 688
official games available in its
library, and unofficial, independent games continue to be released
by certain companies.
Set within an immersive wall painting the installation «Ahy - kon - uh - klas - tik» combines a trans - historical selection of works from the Van Abbemuseum's collection, sculpture and assemblages
by Brook Andrew, rarely seen documents and publications from the museum's
library as well as the artist's own extensive archives that focus on popular and
official documents relating to colonial and stereotyped agendas of the global south.
Arranged alphabetically
by state and province, it includes public law
libraries, court and bar
libraries, state and government
libraries, law
libraries of public
officials, and
libraries of universities and schools for the study of law.
There is also a piece
by Ms. Ableson in the International Journal Of Legal Information The
Official Journal Of The International Association Of Law
Libraries.