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Lawndale Library Celebrates Dedication Ceremony |
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The Lawndale Library, 14615 Burin Avenue, Lawndale celebrates the dedication ceremony on Thursday, November 20. The dedication program begins at 3:00 p.m. with children’s programs before and after the ceremony to include music, storytelling, face painting, and free refreshments for the entire family. Self-guided tours of the new building will be available. The Lawndale Library, broke ground August 6, 2007 on a new 17,360 square foot library to replace the existing 3,203 square foot facility. The library will be open to the public in early 2009 and will have plenty of space for reading, an expanded computer training room, teen area with multimedia listening and viewing stations and self-checkout stations. A major feature of the new library is art glass created by artist Anne Marie Karlsen. The kaleidoscopic glass patterns integrate historical and contemporary photographs of the surrounding landscape and sites. The large-scale – 21 feet high by 6 feet wide - multi-colored glass is part of the buildings façade facing Burin Avenue and a dominant presence inside as well. The artwork was commissioned under the County’s Civic Art Program, administered by the L.A. County Arts Commission; under the program one percent of construction costs of all County capital projects over $500,000 is set aside for the incorporation of civic art. The project is being made possible through the generosity of Los Angeles County Supervisor, Yvonne B. Burke of the Second District, County of Los Angeles Public Library and the City of Lawndale and also included funding from the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2000. The Lawndale Library is part of the County of Los Angeles Public Library. For additional information, please call (562) 940-8415. |
