The Burton Barr Central Library is the central library in Phoenix, Arizona. It was designed by Will Bruder with Wendell Burnette. It is a large facility at about 280,000 square feet in five stories. The five floors accommodate a collection of nearly one million volumes. The facility opened on May 20, 1995, having moved from its former location on McDowell Road. Modern-style library In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ... Phoenix was incorporated as a city on February 5, 1881. ... Will Bruder (1946, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - ), American architect most active in the American southwest. ... 20 May is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
So library staff decided to dedicate a vacant, 4,000 square foot space on the fourth floor of the library, located in the heart of downtown, to teens.
The result was a diverse group in terms of gender, race and income (the CentralLibrary sits within a few blocks of both a private school and a school for the homeless).
The library's Teen Council serves as a de-facto management team, coming up with policies as issues are raised - such as limiting food in the carpeted café area to help preserve the furniture and equipment; or coming up with a fair way to decide which movies would get screened.
To ensure that its libraries are well-informed of the campaign, the state library is distributing informational brochures free of charge to libraries across the state along with press kits and PR packets, the content of which largely came from ALA’s campaign Web site (www.ala.org/@yourlibrary).
The library applied for the 2001 Grolier Grant with the theme, “PlantingÂ…GrowingÂ… LearningÂ… @ your library,” the goal of which was to introduce the community (members and non-members of the church with which the resource center is affiliated) to the resources that the library has available.
The library applied for the 2001 Grolier Grant with the theme, “Discover @ your library.” The focus of this program was to encourage students to express their personal stories in a variety of ways and to explore ways that personal stories have been expressed orally, in print, by media, and through performance.
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