Save the date! Help improve the El Cerrito Library on 4/28

March 21, 2013

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El Cerrito Library, North East Side

Greetings Friends, Please save the time and date for our next opportunity to volunteer to help improve the El Cerrito Library. We enjoyed so much success and good fellowship in January, that we are planning to do it again. In… [Read more…]

Needs Assessment – Volunteers Give Recommendations

March 12, 2013

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Community Needs Assessment

Read through for the latest news about building support for a new library in El Cerrito! Below, we have a report on what needs work in the 2006 library needs assessment. Also, meet committee member Tom Rogers, and read an original piece,… [Read more…]

Berkeley library stays relevant with shift to digital

February 26, 2013

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Exterior corner pylon of Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California, 2009. Photo by William Porter.

“As Donna Corbeil, the library’s director, put it in the library’s annual report, ‘library spaces have moved far beyond the traditional hushed reading room.’ Instead of just offering books at brick and mortar locations, the library is providing services to ‘Berkeley’s… [Read more…]

New look for Bayview branch library

February 22, 2013

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bayviewlib

The new 9,000-square-foot space has windows that go from the floor to the 15-foot-high ceiling and is one of only two branches to have a living roof, which can be partially seen from inside. It will have twice as many… [Read more…]