Calgary Public Library Foundation Will Announce Largest Gift in Library’s History Later This Week
From the Calgary Public Library Foundation:
The Calgary Public Library Foundation will be hosting a celebration event to announce a $1.5 million [$1.44 million/USD] donation from a corporate partner. This is the largest corporate gift in the Calgary Public Library and Library Foundation’s history.
Details about the event scheduled for Friday at Calgary’s Central Library are available here.
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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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