BOOKMOBILE FILLS IN FOR CLOSED LIBRARY : NEW FACILITY TO OPEN WITHIN 2 YEARS.Byline: Mary Beth Alexander Daily News Staff Writer The Panorama City Library will soon come under the wrecking ball to make way for a state-of-the-art facility double the size. The new library will feature more books as well as computerized computerized adapted for analysis, storage and retrieval on a computer. computerized axial tomography see computed tomography. catalogs and access to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. City library officials said. The 30-year-old Panorama City branch ``was just too small, inadequate to serve this community,'' said Fontayne Holmes, assistant director of branches for the Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California. . ``The Panorama City branch is very heavily used.'' The library at 14345 Roscoe Blvd. closed just before Thanksgiving Thanksgiving annual U.S. holiday celebrating harvest and yearly blessings; originated with Pilgrims (1621). [Am. Culture: EB, IX: 922] See : America Thanksgiving national holiday with luxurious dinner as chief ritual. [Am. Pop. , to give crews time to prepare the building for demolition Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction, which is the taking down of a building while carefully preserving valuable elements for re-use. . It is expected to be torn down within the next few weeks, Holmes said. Groundbreaking for the new facility will take place at the same site Jan. 27. Meantime, for patrons who still want to check out books but don't want to travel to the next closest branches in Van Nuys or North Hills, the city is setting up a bookmobile at the Panorama Mall. ``We have so many young children in the community,'' said Louise Marquez, manager and marketing director of the Panorama Mall. ``I really believe the library has to stay open here.'' The mall at the corner of Roscoe and Van Nuys boulevards helped make the bookmobile possible, because it offered space free of charge, as long as the library branch remained closed, Holmes said. ``We really have to thank them. This is really a real community service,'' Holmes said. Stocked with Adj. 1. stocked with - furnished with more than enough; "rivers well stocked with fish"; "a well-stocked store" stocked furnished, equipped - provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority); "a furnished apartment"; about 4,000 books as well as videotapes, the bookmobile will be located in the parking lot at the mall's main entrance. It will open Jan. 27, the same day as the groundbreaking, and operate Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will take about 18 months to two years to complete the new library, which will be about 12,500 square feet and have the capacity for about 60,000 books, Holmes said. The $4 million project is being funded through a 1989 voter-approved bond measure, Holmes said. The Panorama City branch serves a community of about 90,000 people, Holmes said. Marquez said the branch has always been heavily used by children from nearby schools. ``It's a very, very (popular) library,'' Marquez said. ``We have 5,000 schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school within walking distance. The library is so important.'' CAPTION(S): Map Map: Site of temporary bookmobile |
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