Advertisement
News

BOOK SALE TO HELP LIBRARY'S EXPANSION

CORAL SPRINGS -- The parking lot of the Broward County branch library on Northwest 29th Street was half full on Friday morning, but the doors were locked.

Inside, a dozen volunteers sorted through boxes of donated books in preparation for today's book sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The mood was cheerful, though the lights were dim and the library was closed to the public.

Advertisement

Library supporters received encouragement in a letter this week from County Administrator Lex Hester. He promised to extend the crowded library's hours and expand services.

For volunteers who traveled by bus to the June 30 County Commission meeting to ask for more services, the letter marked one small victory in their quest for a north Broward regional library.

Advertisement

"He heard us," said Charlotte Arpin, president of the Friends of the Library of Coral Springs. "If we hadn't gone to the meeting, he wouldn't have known our story."

About 40 north Broward residents had asked county officials to designate the Coral Springs branch at 10077 NW 29th St. as a temporary regional library and extend its hours from 40 to 68 a week.

Regional libraries in Plantation and Pembroke Pines serve residents of west and south Broward, but north Broward does not have a regional library. The 15,000-square-foot Coral Springs branch, which is north Broward's largest, is closed on Fridays and Sundays.

Hester said the Coral Springs branch is too small to accommodate extra employees needed to manage a regional library, but he promised several improvements.

Branch librarian Joyce Wente said the additional money would shore up collections by about 50 percent and add many needed reference materials.

Volunteers expect to collect nearly $500 today by selling used books for a dime or a quarter apiece.

A permanent regional library in north Broward is several years and $7.5 million away, Hester said.


Advertisement
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-07-18-8703010015-story.html
www.sun-sentinel.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-21
613650
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:6CNYR477RS3NCC67XG4MRCJICUAEK3NG
<urn:uuid:d9b781fc-cb92-47d2-a31c-f852069a87c9>
2022-05-22T00:35:57Z
23.3.13.26
text/html
sha1:Q2D7HW6KEZDYOIOYMHDBQF5EXVBGV3VE
<urn:uuid:553ae97c-bd78-4222-9c32-fb0eca2ce5ca>
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-07-18-8703010015-story.html
response
<urn:uuid:60aa1a1e-46e1-4268-909e-787d0207c07e>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-21
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-169
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.3-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/