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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 […]

Our Finance Director, Alfred Acac, has requested that we cancel next week’s Finance Meeting. The Finance meeting scheduled for next week has been taken off the calendar. If you wish to contact Mr. Acac please email finance@stockton2020.org or call 209/323.2042.

We have just launched our online store. Now everything from Stockton2020 baby bibs to golf shirts to wall calendars can be purchased with a few clicks of your mouse. Stockton2020 has great plans for what this store will become in the near future. We are in the progress of recruiting artists to design different inspirational […]

When: 11.1.2007 from 5-8pm
Where: Cesar Chavez Library
After a nearly a year since the first Youth Vision and Action Forums the Tule Channel Network will be hosting another Youth Vision Action Forum next week. Get ready for an action-packed night everyone. I have heard the hosts condensed 9 hours of the material into 3 hours! Furthermore, […]