LIBRARY

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The Library & Learning Center might be as follows:

 

Trades:   Librarian, Researcher

 

1.      House books belonging to residents that would be available for checkout.

 

2.      House books belonging to residents in a closed stack available to other residents

                  only upon approval of owner.

 

3.      House VCRs, CDs and other media available for checkout.

 

4.      House reference materials such as encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs, statutes, etc.

 

5.      House job training manuals.

 

6.      House certain magazine and newspaper subscriptions.

 

7.      Run a daily shuttle service to county library for items ordered on-line.

                  Residents would have to be members of that library as well, enabling them to

                  check out books there and use their computer data bases and research materials

                  on-line from their homes.

 

8.      Provide story-time programs for children.

 

9.      Provide book discussion groups.

 

10.  Provide computers for research as well as research assistants.

 

11.  Library might be incorporated separately in order to get grants, software

      and assistance from other libraries.

 

12.  House a large classroom for training.  As the library grows, this space could be

      used for expansion after a new classroom is built elsewhere.

 

13.  Media Center – house computers, internet access, faxes, VCR’s, DVD’s,

      printers and copiers that are used to facilitate information gathering and learning.

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