Republic of Korea Government Donating $45,000 to Hawaii State Public Library System For More Korean Language Ebooks, DVDs
From HSPLS:
The Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS) and the Korean Library Foundation (KLF) will conduct a special check presentation ceremony and a demonstration of new Korean eBooks for invited dignitaries at the McCully-Moiliili Public Library on Thursday, December 5 at 10 a.m.
Consul General Walter K. Paik will present a ceremonial check of $45,228.40 from the Government of the Republic of Korea to State Librarian Richard Burns.
The generous grant provides 2,100 Korean eBooks, including adult fiction, non-fiction, essays, and children’s books; 450 paperback books, an estimated 200 DVDs that will be added to the HSPLS Korean language collection, and office equipment and furniture for the Korean Library Foundation, located in the Library.
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See Also: Palama Supermarkets Donating $5,000 to HSPLS – McCully-Moiliili Public Library for Korean language materials (August 11, 2011)
Filed under: Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
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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