Calgary's New Central Library May Not Break Ground Next Year
The city’s much anticipated new central library project isn’t likely to break ground in 2012, the facility’s centennial year.
The city is still hashing out some of the conceptual planning for the new facility, whose price tag is pegged at up to $250 million.
Anything other than a symbolic groundbreaking in 2012 would be “optimistic,” said Ald. Druh Farrell, who sits on the Calgary Public Library board.
“It would be wonderful if we could break ground in the centennial year, but we don’t want to rush it,” Farrell said.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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