Oklahoma: Tulsa Central Library Expected to Get About $38 Million in Upgrades
From KJRH:
The Tulsa Central Library is about 50 years old. Officials say when it was built, it was state of the art, but now it needs some serious improvements.
They are proposing about $38 million in upgrades.
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“We’re really looking at what the needs of the 21st Century customer and really incorporating that into the library,” said Gary Shaffer, Tulsa City-County Library CEO.
Last year, the library commission approved $15 million from the library’s reserve fund to pay for some new furniture and a massive heating and cooling upgrade. Thursday night, they decided to expand even more.
“Just totally re-imagining the library space, a real renewal of the central library,” said Shaffer.
The rest of the money will come from fundraising efforts, grants and possibly federal funds.
About Gary Price
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.
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