Biane Library ponders second floor
The second floor of the Biane Library (yes, there's a second floor) isn't close to being built yet but city officials will spend the next year designing prototypes for an interactive children's area. Think part children's library, part children's museum."Imagine something 25 square feet that's in the shape of a huge dinosaur with 250 dinosaur books and a big dinosaur pit," said assistant library director Michelle Perera. "They'll think they're playing but parents will know they're learning about a topic. Something that's highly interactive and gives kids something to do rather than something to look at."
The city just received a $45,000 grant, which will be matched by the Library Foundation, to draw up some preliminary designs for the 14,000 square feet of space on the second floor.
What do you think should go in that space?
Seriously? Everyone has to tighten their belts just to be able to make it day to day and they're talking about building some playground in a library?
City folks: Those of us in the private sector who don't have the luxury of forcing money out of people don't appreciate your special projects candy-coated as being "for the children" or "pro family" or "pro community".
Today it's some library boondoggle, tommorow it's another softball park. Give me a break.
How about a new name for the library?
How much money went into this library, into the Fontana library?? Millions! Don't get me wrong, I love libraries, but when people are loosing their jobs, this just seems...well, actually...typical of Biane. Totally clueless. Yes, Biane, there are people struggling in Rancho.
The library services provided by Rancho Cucamonga are outstanding and appreciated by not only RC residents, but surrounding residents too. With the downturn in the economy, libraries everywhere are seeing increase in visits by all ages.
I don't know why these people are complaining. The source of the grant funds isn't from the city's budget, and the matching funds are from Friends of the Library, which raises money from private entities.
This wasn't taxpayer money to start with.
Any building project in the city creates jobs, at least for the duration of the project. It's not like the money is going to fund someone's habit for hookers and blow, or to bail out people who couldn't figure out they really couldn't afford their mortgages, or sending weapons overseas.
The benefit of this project remains in Rancho Cucamonga.
RC Public Libraries serve thousands. Negative comments reflect ignorance. Read!