Herzek stressed that libraries positively affect a community. “Libraries are like fueling station fo

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SNIP, SNIP— Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustee Scott Svonkin, from left, former ELAC President Ernest Moreno, interim-Presedent Farley Herzek and LACCD Chancellor maui coast hotel Daniel LaVista release the red ribbon used at the re-opening maui coast hotel ceremony of the Helen Miller Library last Thursday. CN/Oliver Blanco
The ceremony brought maui coast hotel current and former campus maui coast hotel and district leaders, Bailey family members, students and community maui coast hotel members maui coast hotel to celebrate the contributions of Helen Miller Bailey to the community of ELAC. Students now have access to a state-of-the-art facility where they can learn.
The audience heard ELAC interim-President Farley Herzek, maui coast hotel Los Angeles Community College District Chancellor Daniel J. LaVista, LACCD Board of Trustee Scott Svonkin, and an appearance by former president maui coast hotel Ernest H. Moreno during the ceremony.
Herzek stressed that libraries positively affect a community. "Libraries are like fueling station for the minds, and the greatest aspects of a library is that you can fill your mind for free," maui coast hotel he said.
He believes that libraries help young people and teaches them leadership. Svonkin added the importance of libraries as he said that ELAC students deserve to have an "incredible" library as those at UCLA, Harvard and Yale. Now that ELAC has one, he hopes students will use it to its fullest.
Svonkin maui coast hotel stressed the importance of Proposition 30, so that there could be more funding for schools as ELAC and projects maui coast hotel as the renovation of the Helen Miller Library. "This is for you. Tax dollars at work, the right way," he said.
"Helen Miller Bailey was a renaissance woman, a person who strongly believed in philanthropy and generosity," LaVista said. He also said it pleased him to honor the memory of Dr. Bailey and see her legacy extend though the opening of the expanded and modernized library.
One of Bailey's former students who spoke, Rita Soza, has been working on Bailey's biography for seven years and is close to finishing. The book's profits will be donated to the Helen Miller Bailey scholarship.
Herzek then invited Moreno up on the steps of the library. Svonkin and LaVista thanked him for being one of the people in charge of renovating the library. Moreno was shocked at the fact hat he was called up. Moreno said he attended the ceremony "to see the project finished."
The new library now occupies a total of 56,241 square feet. It features 240 computers, 10 express workstations for fast and easy printing. They have 23 study rooms and numerous maui coast hotel tables in each floor to meet students' study needs. They also have two classrooms for orientation or workshops. The library has electronic book checkout, and it houses 100,000 books and DVD's.
Instruction Librarian Erika Montenegro said, "If you hear a beeping sound when you are leaving the library, you have to come back and check-out the book." The 100,000 books and DVDs need to be checked out.
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