Invent the Future
Please visit the Anchorage Library Foundation's website to learn about ways you can support your library. The findings of the plan are unsettling: Our public library is in a struggle for survival. If left unchecked, current funding trends will lead to a library system that is at best mediocre and at worst irrelevant. But it doesn't have to be that way. The plan offers exciting and empowering recommendations on how we can turn our library into an indispensible community resource. Stayed tuned to learn how you can help implement the plan.
Past Events
Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
at the Z.J. Loussac Public Library, 3600 Denali Street
Thank you to the roughly 80 people who joined us to learn more about what Anchorage residents have said impoving library services. We presented the preliminary recommendations of the Library Community Plan. Your feedback will inform the issues, goals and strategies of the final plan.
Meeting notes will follow soon.
Business and Nonprofit Community Strategy Session
Tuesday, Nov. 10, noon-1:30 p.m.
at the Mayor's Conference Room, 8th Floor of City Hall, 632 West 6th Ave.
Thank you to the tell participants who shared ideas about how the library can best partner with businesses and nonprofits to provide services (job training, retail, meeting spaces, technology resources)?
Anchorage 21st Century Libraries Summit
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 5:30-9 p.m., 2009
More than 60 people gathered
at the Wilda Marston Theatre in the Z.J. Loussac Public Library to celebrate the library and listen to a panel of library experts. During the same week, library experts hosted focus groups to gather feedback and ideas.
Sounding Board meeting
Friday,
June 12, 2009
Nineteen people gathered to discuss challenging issues for Anchorage's libraries suggested ideas for improvement.
Sounding Board meeting
Wednesday,
August 5, 2009
Focus Group: Multi-ethnic Young Professionals
Tuesday,
August 25, 2009
Focus Group: Technology
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2009
Peruse local news coverage of the issue, below.
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