Public Library News Roundup
Alberta
Calgary Public Library Names Shared History Centre After $1M donation (via CBC)
Arkansas
Fayetteville Public Library Wins Award For Being Green (via 5Newsonline.com)
California
Berkeley Public Library Director Resigns Less Than a Year After Starting (via KQED) & Berkeley Library Director Unexpectedly Resigns After Months Of Political Turmoil (via Berkeleyside)
Los Angeles in Buildings: The Central Library (via KCET)
Mobile Libraries Span Out Across Peninsula, Offer Free Books and Checkouts (via NBC Bay Area)
Privatization of Escondido Library Staff a Hot Button Issue (via San Diego Union-Tribune)
Plan For New $41 Million Public Library in Downtown Riverside Fails to Get Go-Ahead (via The Press Enterprise)
See Also: Take a First Look at Riverside’s ‘Striking’ New $40 Million Downtown Library (via The Press-Enterprise)
Connecticut
Hartford Public Library Releases New Strategic Plan (FY2018-2020)
61 pages; PDF.
Florida
Jacksonville Public Library: Potential Budget Cuts Could Mean a “Dramatic Decline in Print Material Budget” (via Florida Times-Union)
Georgia
Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Library One Step Closer to Avoiding Shutdown (via WALB)
Indiana
Evansville: Music is Escape for Library’s ‘Hip-Hop Intern’ (via Courier & Press)
Monroe County Library Sees Collateral Effects of Drug Epidemic (via Indiana Public Radio)
Maryland
Happy Ending for the Book on Valerie Gross, Longtime Head of Howard County Library System (via The Baltimore Sun)
Libraries Joining Opioid Addiction Fight Through Narcan Training, Access To Online Resources (via Baltimore Sun)
VIDEO: Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library’s New CEO Takes Helm; Replaces Carla Hayden (via CBS Baltimore)
Massachusetts
Boston Public Library Wins Boston Preservation Alliance Preservation Award for Puvis De Chavannes Mural Restoration
Mississippi
New Jersey
VIDEO: The Fair Lawn Public Library Book Domino Challenge 2017!
Nearly 1100 titles!
New York
North Dakota
LGBT Book Display at West Fargo Library Sparks Complaints (via INFORUM)
Ohio
Plan to Blend Modern Dublin Library Branch with Rustic City Revealed (via Columbus Business First)
[Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Pursues $54 Million Plan – While at ‘Financial Tipping Point’ (via Cincinnati.com)
Ontario
Two Windsor Library Branches Close From ‘Severe Flooding’ (via CTV)
Tennessee
Streaming Audio: How Nashville Has Beaten Bleak Predictions For Libraries (Nashville Public Radio)
5:39 minute report. ||| See Also: 2017 Gale/LJ Library of the Year: Nashville Public Library, TN
Texas
Austin’s New $125 Million Central Library to Open Oct. 28 (via Austin American-Statesman)
Roosevelt Weeks Named Director of the Austin Public Library (via Austin American-Statesman)
MORE TO COME
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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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