Alachua County Library District

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Major Projects of the Foundation: The construction, furnishing and equipping of the Foundation Room in Headquarters Library was our first big project after Katherine’s Tree. A dedicated, nicely furnished room was needed for meetings, small conferences, and training sessions for library staff. The room is also available for use by the public upon appointment, and the Board of the ACLD Foundation holds most of its meetings there. The lovely Arts & Crafts style room was competed in 2007, with Eve Ackerman, long-time member of the Board, as chair of the project.

In 2008, our Foundation began a cooperation with the Library District to assist financially the long- range building/renovation of various library branches along with needed construction within the Headquarters Library. We have restricted our assistance to services for the youth of our community, namely the Snuggle Up Centers and Teen Zones/Spaces. We have supported the building, equipping, and decoration of these dedicated areas in Alachua , Millhopper, Cone Park, Newberry, High Springs, Tower Road, first in the rented space for the Community Partnership and several years later in the newly built Community Partnership, the previously mentioned Headquarters renovation, and finally the Waldo Branch.