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A picture (click for a larger view) of some of the artwork in Bouillon Hall, the former library: 
By clicking on the above, you can view pictures of 67 beautiful libraries in the world. To contact the Webmaster, Email: fol@cwu.edu Copyright
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Welcome to the CWU The CWU Friends of the Library (FOL), established in 1994, helps to ensure that the library remains a vital part of Central Washington University. Our bi-annual newsletters and meetings keep you informed of library events.
Our primary purpose is to raise funds for library acquisitions: books, journals, recordings, musical scores, films, maps, electronic databases. Each fall, the Friends conduct a two-day booksale on the Ellensburg campus that has raised several thousand dollars for these type of materials. Our goal during the next biennium is to increase the Friends of the Library endowment to $100,000. We are already one-third of the way there. Join the Friends in sustaining the Brooks Library. To join the Friends in support of the Library, print out and complete the Contribution Form, attach your check and forward to the Friends of the Library at the address provided on the form.
Breaking News and Notices NOVEMBER 3, 2009
9:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
9:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. BROOKS LIBRARY FOYER We'll need the help of many Friends to prepare and sell
the large inventory of fiction and books about art, history,
travel, current affairs, and much, much more. President's Corner
"Libraries: How They Stack Up" was the title of a report
issued several years ago by the Online Computer Service
Center. Even though the report's raw data has probably
changed in the interim, its basic message is still instructive. In this period of a slumping consumer economy, it is
heartening to be reminded that libraries nation-wide are
significant economic engines, generating more expenditures
per year than do video retail, bars and taverns, and athletic
footwear. As service providers, libraries circulate a couple of billion
items annually, and this figure does not take into account the
materials consulted on site. Public library cardholders
outnumber Amazon customers by a ratio of 5 to 1, and if
academic libraries were included in this count, the ratio
would be even greater. A similar ratio exists when one compares library visits to
attendance at professional and college football, basketball,
baseball, and hockey games. Yearly, five times more people
visit the library than go to the games. Libraries of all kinds are huge repositories of informational
wealth, holding billions of dollars worth of volumes that can
be accessed either on site or through inter-library loan. And lastly, librarianship is a sizeable profession both globally
and nationally. In the United States, librarians outnumber
advertising agents, dentists, chemists, photographers, and
airplane pilots, to name but a few. That's how libraries stack up as a significant economic sector.
They matter to us materially as well as intellectually. Beverly Heckart Board Meeting
Board of Directors Meetings are called by the Chair periodically on an as needed basis. The date and time will be posted here when available.
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