Library Support Activities : The Friends Of The Library

Besides be adjacent to a major interstate this particular library is nestled between the Hoover Police Department and the Hoover Recreation Center. The library to address such a diverse and large community is a two floor facility with the basement level having meeting rooms, a theatre, and a box office. While the main level has the collections, circulation desks, lounges, and café. The spacious and large floor plans are necessary to fulfill the needs and visits from an estimate of 79,127 patrons and counting. The exponential growth of patrons is value to understand how much this library has grown to serve its community since opening in 1983. The handling of such growth in patrons would not be possible without the help of the Jefferson County Library Cooperative and the Library Board, which is open to the public. Considering the following it is important that what the Hoover Public Library is for fulfillment of their mission “to serve all the citizens of Hoover by offering the services, resources, and facilities to fulfill the informational, educational, cultural, and recreational needs and interests.” (Hoover,

The Little Free Libraries do more than provide reading materials. They also promote a sense of community. According to Bol, “it engages and brings neighborhoods together, and folks take to each other more than they ever have” (Aldrich 3). It brings the people in the communities together where they can interact with each other over the favorite books, magazines, comics or journals. Anita Malchiodi Albedi, a high school English teacher in Solano County California, says her Little Free Library has had a positive impact on her neighborhood community. She remembers fondly being in her garden in her front yard and having three middle school girls stopped by to tell her “hello.” One of the girls even told her that they lived on Pennsylvania street, a very low-income neighborhood where the police are often

The library I volunteered at is run by the high school, Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute (C.I.). The school was founded in 1979 and was named after Norman Bethune; a well-known Canadian doctor. He was best known for his services during World War I and his dedication to helping the poor in Canada. Moreover, over these past few years, the school has prospered beautifully and has had many renovations and changes. For example, two years ago, the school’s library had a huge makeover. The library was given new furniture to allow to have students a better working space. Similarly, the library moved shelves around in order to make it more convenient for everyone to access books. Ultimately, Dr. Norman Bethune C.I. has it in their best interest to provide students with the tools they need to succeed in education. In other words, the school displays good citizenship by assisting their students.

Harrisburg University is located in Downton of Harrisburg. University requires a modification in the parking lot. Harrisburg recognized the need for a comprehensive approach to planning for its campus parking, both as it relates to current campus activity and future campus programs the need for a plan for parking that reflected the goals of encouraging and enhancing a pedestrian campus, preserving the extraordinary heritage and landscape elements of the campus.

Fostering a love a reading in students and families is crucial for the academic success of students. In an effort to provide resources and information to fulfill the educational needs and interests of students, it is imperative that the school library try to provide access for students and parents alike during non-school hours. According to the Standards and Guidelines for Library Programs in Texas, part of having an exemplary program under Standard V: Learner-Centered Connections to the Community, Principle 1: the librarian offers families opportunities for participation in the library and educational community (Texas State Library and Archives, 2005, 25). Through this standard, the librarian promotes library programs and offers students, faculty and staff, and families opportunities to participate in school activities and their children’s

During these planning meetings, a formalized plan for a new building took shape, resulting in the formation of a library space planning committee and then a library building committee, both comprised of community residents. Three community forums where arranged by the Board of Trustees and the Building Committee and discussions took place. In addition to conversation with public school students numerous informal conversations among community members and individuals involved with the project. The collaboration with the Lynnfield Capital Facilities Advisory Committee has solidified the library building as a priority for the town. The Friends of the Library organization have been advocates for the project, sharing information and marketing the project. The feedback from the meetings, forums, and conversations were incorporated in the various phases of the project, with the library continuingly providing updates on the projects. This has led to increased community responses, questions, and backing of the

LFl provides makeshift libraries created by hand, these wooden box “miniature Libraries” contain books donated by local people. The way this works is by when you take a book you give a book. This assures that everyone in the community gets to learn something new every time they go and pick up a book.

Free library books borrowing are the most important function. However, compared to previous readers, today's readers clearly expect that libraries must offer more than just books. Massive library system reform means use of high-tech; however, if lacking of overall strategy and clear goals, just meaningless technology

If not served, struggling students at Scott run the risk of functional illiteracy, which will greatly decrease their employment opportunities, income, independence, and overall productivity.

Central Idea (Need): The worth of public libraries in America extends far beyond the books they offer; libraries also provide access to computers and internet connections, meeting places for community activities and groups, guidance services for patrons, tutoring programs, and advocacy for child literacy programs. Despite the value of these resources to struggling communities, libraries have seen a decline in both public usage and federal funding in recent years.

 The library would be a comfortable place to sit and read a book for leisure purposes

Many public libraries now have coffee shop. Creating zones in the library where noise and activity is acceptable and desirable, identifying each of the local cultures, expanding the audio-visual collections, and providing more access to global information. Libraries will have to create and test the kinds of library buildings and services that will most appeal to Gen Net.

The educational components (auditorium and lecture hall) are placed on the sloping surface enhancing its purpose (seating), the exhibition space, placed on the top flat slab, is given greater flexibility, and the library, located centrically in its design, becomes a connector of programs. The connection (circulation) of these programs start to arise as two different circulation loops are conceived, exterior loop (purple) and interior loop (yellow) (figure 3). The exterior loop starts from the path connection (road) and spirals up through all the programs. The interior loop, placed inside the main tower and library, serves a more direct route trough the building. Ingeniously through its combine sloped and flat slab, the programs have the ability to permeate one another. The exhibition lingers into the auditorium and lecture hall or vice versa when required by its changes in occupation , obtaining easy and smooth transitions.

Libraries customarily serve as providers of vast arrays of knowledge, provoking introspection and musing enabling the creation of original notions serving as a haven for independent thought, but also as an area to exchange knowledge. In the case of the J. Murrey Atkins Library—explicitly the ground floor—the underlying message provided by the facilitators is considerably complex. The Atkins Library, is committed to being academically resourceful and reliable, striving to preserve a tranquil and safe environment for students; ensuring comfort, socialization, and multitasking in a diverse setting. This message is insinuated in posters and signs exhibited throughout the ground floor, the technologically advanced appliances, the wide variety of seating arrangements, and the alarm systems, scattered across the ceiling.

Our study consisted on review of the illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), IES RP 20-14, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) APTA –SS-SIS-RP-002-10. In addition, we consulted the 2016, California Green Building Standards Code (Cal Green), Security Lightning Guidelines for People, Property and Critical Infrastructure, IES G-1-16.