Libraries provide vital services to our communities — they always have — and to ensure that they continue to do so, we must all take responsibility and do what we can to support our libraries.
It'll be a great day and all the money will go to an amazing cause – one with an exciting future helping support our libraries and ensuring their survival.
"The families who have supported our library over the years have been so wonderful, and this is a way to thank them," said the event's co-chairwoman, Cynthia Oneglia.
We should be supporting our libraries, but we should also be shaping them – something that is impossible if we view them through rose-tinted spectacles.
All sixteen thousand books were checked out, and more than a thousand people had joined the Facebook event, posting comments like, "Our council should be supporting our libraries, not closing them!" Now, libraries close all over the world every day without much ado.
The room was a hive of activity …" My worry is that if we don't do a better job of supporting our libraries, there won't be any left – secret or otherwise - for the 12-year-olds of the future to discover.
If you want to find them, support our school libraries.
Even better, the organization's passport photo business makes this a "one-stop" shop, saving you time and trouble, and also helps to support our three Costa Mesa libraries.
This last observation supports our decision to rank libraries based on their similarity to known active compounds using a consensus approach.
The Friends of the Costa Mesa Libraries supports our three Costa Mesa branches of the Orange County Public Library.
Previous studies have shown that trinucleotide repeats predominate in plant EST libraries, supporting our observations on oomycetes [ 12, 58].
