Behind the Scenes at the Holyoke Public Library

Link to January 17 Hello Holyoke! blogpost, "tour of the Holyoke Public Library". (via Twitter)

Excerpt: The other morning I went on a Friends of the Library tour of the building, lead by Board member Tom Ripa…I got to see many of its nooks and crannies. >

The Holyoke Public Library Corporation has just begun the process for asking the City to bond for $5.5 million for renovation and expansion of the 1902 structure. In September of 2008, the HPLC was promised $4.4 million from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners if the HPLC can come up with the rest of the necessary money (roughly $17 mil, in this plan).