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Hedgesville library gets $100K to install solar panels

Matthew Umstead
mumstead@herald-mail.com

HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. — Solar panels will be installed at the Hedgesville Public Library through a $100,000 grant award announced Friday.

The branch library in Berkeley County, W.Va., was among three to receive solar grants from Ipswich, Mass.-based EBSCO Information Services, a provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries.

“The Hedgesville branch of the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library system is excited to be the beneficiary of the EBSCO solar grant,” Gretchen Fry, the library system’s director, said in a news release.

“This grant will enhance the ability of our libraries to provide excellent library service to the Berkeley County community by reducing our electric bill, utilizing sustainable energy.”

The library’s electricity costs average about $9,000 annually. That money now will be available for additional materials, programming and services for the entire community, according to the library system.

The Hedgesville library, which opened in 2014, was one of 60 grant applicants, according to Kelly Tanksley, who handles community relations and development for the library system.

“We wanted to do this when we first built the (Hedgesville) library, but didn’t have the money or a grant for it,” Tanksley wrote in an email.

The other $100,000 grant recipients are New Port Richey (Fla.) Public Library and Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada, according to EBSCO.

“We are beyond excited,” Tanksley wrote. “An extra for us is that we will be able to have programming that will be specific to alternate energy sources.”

EBSCO Information Services said it is the leading discovery-service provider for libraries worldwide, with more than 11,000 discovery customers in more than 100 countries.

It is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a privately held and family-owned U.S. company that has been in business since 1944.
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