Yuma County District Library

Link to July 26 Yuma Sun article, "San Luis library nearly ready".

Excerpt: The library is one several new district branches funded by a $53.7 million bond issue approved by Yuma County voters in 2005. New library branches previously were completed and open in Yuma, Somerton, Wellton and the Foothills.

New Pueblo Library Promises to Become Heart of a Community

Link to April 9 Pueblo Chieftain article, "New library opens to public".

Excerpt: An enthusiastic crowd poured through the doors of the new Pueblo West Library Wednesday as the expanded building officially opened to the public.

The green ribbon was cut by Latino and Pueblo West Chamber of Commerce officials after a lengthy ritual in which members of the Masons’ Grand Lodge of Colorado installed a cornerstone, just as they did several years ago for the main branch in town.

Pueblo West residents have been watching for months as workers from H.W. Houston Construction nearly quintupled the size of the suburban library branch. The existing brick building grew steadily eastward with expanses of glass and steel to offer 28,000 square feet of floor space.

Jon Walker, executive director of the Pueblo City-County Library District, pointed out to the crowd that gathered for the grand opening that the children’s library alone, at 4,000 square feet, is about the size of the original branch

Ask Me What I Think About Online Classes

Link to August 8 New York Times article, "As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks are History".

Excerpt: “In five years, I think the majority of students will be using digital textbooks,” said William M. Habermehl, superintendent of the 500,000-student Orange County schools. “They can be better than traditional textbooks.”

Schools that do not make the switch, Mr. Habermehl said, could lose their constituency.

“We’re still in a brick-and-mortar, 30-students-to-1-teacher paradigm,” Mr. Habermehl said, “but we need to get out of that framework to having 200 or 300 kids taking courses online, at night, 24/7, whenever they want.”

"Whenever they want." Does this also apply to students' future work schedules?

Teachers teach whenever they want.

Administrators administrate whenever they want.

Parents parent whenever they want.

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