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In September we will begin coordinating with other county departments and library branches on assistance for library users when the Main Library will be closed for at least 2 weeks in order to thoroughly complete the orderly movement of all library shelves, computers, and collection materials into the new library. Library Progress as related to 2007 Task Force Recommendations 1) Heritage Center Work Group. At the June 23~d meeting the BOCC approved a Heritage Center Work Group, facilitated by Ms. Barbara Baker. Ms. Baker is the retired Assistant Dean of Durham Technical Community College and was instrumental in the DTCC Hillsborough campus project. Additionally, Ms. Baker has served on the Library Services Task Forces of 2004 and 2007. This group would provide guidance to the Board on the feasibility of a proposed Heritage Center and report back to the Board in October 2009. The Heritage Center Work Group has already met three times and will report on its work to the BOCC prior to the CIP discussion in late October. A working vision for the Center has been developed and the work of creating a business plan has begun. During the next several weeks the group will move forward with discussions of scope, organization, management, and finances. Barbara Baker 2) Southwest Regional Branch. The BOCC adopted a capital project ordinance, "Libraries - Future Facilities", for FY09-10 establishing a reserve fund of $50,000 to allow the county to address countywide library capital. needs identified in the 2007 Report. Hyconeechee Regional Library Receives Technology Grant The Hyconeechee Regional Library System is comprised of the three counties of Caswell, Person and Orange libraries. This does not include Chapel Hill Public Library. In June, the State Library awarded two 2009-2010 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Grants to the Hyconeechee Regional Library System. With a Basic Equipment Grant in the amount of $8,410, the library system will purchase eight public computers. In Orange County, five computers will replace existing public workstations at the Orange County Main Library and one will be used to increase the total number of public workstations at the Cedar Grove Branch to five. The library system will be responsible for providing $1,263 in matching funds for this grant. A Planning grant in the amount of $20,000 will be used to work with a library consultant to develop athree-year Technology Plan for the regional library system. The library staff will work with Dr. Robert Burgin of RB Software & Consulting and Jeffery Campbell of UNC Libraries to develop this plan. The completed plan will include guiding principles for integrating technologies into library services, specific technology goals related to key areas of continued investment and new strategic opportunity; and guidelines for on-going maintenance and evaluation of library technologies. No matching funds are required for the Planning Grant. The work completed as part of the planning grant will not limit the County from setting a strategic direction or making a capital investment in technology to more closely align itself with the Chapel Hill system, should that be determined. Library Cooperation Summit - NC Public Library Director's Conference