Oakville's new Library is OVERDUE

Oakville

Oakville, United States of America

Randy Caverly
R3Caverlys@aol.com
Deborah Receniello
dbaker@timberland.lib.wa.us
Beth Fern
fernfarms@aol.com

 

Description

We are members of Oakville Friends of the Timberland Library, a non-profit support group of the local library. We have been raising money for 10 years, $25,000.00 to date, to build a new library building. We are about to launch a high profile campaign to reach a goal of $300,000.00 to finally reach our goal. We are in a joint project with the City of Oakville and the Oakville School District-who is leasing us the land for $1 a year, to not only update the library, but to bring state of the art technology to a community that still only has 24K baud telephone modem service for the internet, and computer access to a town where 56% of the households are under the HUD defined poverty level. A website would be a major tool in communicating our campaign to corporate ears. Our Friends group has been together for almost 20 years, and has upgraded the conditions for the library several times. We are attempting to put the library in a building that will house its needs for several decades and be self supporting with a foundation to maintain it; which means we need to gather the most current technical data to attempt to foresee the infrastructure we will need for updated technology.

Expectations

Attracting other communities to see and learn from the best possible example of what can be accomplished when you make Stone Soup with "everybody" adding their unique talents and abilities to the pot.

What proposer can provide for Evergreen

Exactly what this program envisions:The experience of helping design a state of the art facility from the ground up with a virtual support network with worldwide access. The opportunity to work with motivated, positive adults with a wealth of life experience and the open minds to seek and accept help from young people who will grow as individuals through this acceptance from their "parents."

Reasons to collaborate

Are you kidding? This generation of college students are the most PC and Internet technology educated group in history. We have adults with experience. motivation, and a firm goal, but we stumble like immigrants with a poor grasp of English when we attempt to translate our energy into "computer language." We are already working with students, with a very successful ongoing program with a North Thurston High School Drafting class and their instructor, Steve Kaufman, to design the new library. We expect to work equally as well with Evergreen.

Addendum

Hi Randy

Addendum

Here is my proposal focus.