Kids lobby for new library is a neat article out of California on pleas for a new city library handwritten in clumsy cursive, “Library-O-Grams” from elementary schoolchildren. The collage is part of a no-holds-barred lobbying effort launched by the city to win state money – a requested $18.9 million – for a new 92,000-square-foot library.
Fontana lost its bid for the money last year, in part, city officials say, because they failed to recognize how hard they would have to lobby.
The city’s present 13,000-square-foot library has only 10 computers, said head librarian Renee Lovato, and on Tuesdays – the library’s busiest day – by 4 p.m. children are often signing up for computer time up to a day ahead.
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