Library Renewal

The Daily Journal is updating us on the library update project which will renew one of our restoration jewels in town

Construction is slated to begin Aug. 11 to upgrade Burlingame’s main Primrose Road library with the city hiring a construction firm to carry out the work.

The $3.5 million project will modify the downtown branch’s interior to meet the needs of modern patrons by providing flexible space for collaboration, creativity and exploration. The City Council awarded a $1.74 million construction contract to Zolman Construction and Development to create the new tech and media lab with updated computers and LCD screens, video conferencing capabilities, four group study rooms, new conference room that fits 20 people, expanded teen area, a Burlingame Library Foundation bookstore and café, along with new carpeting. Officials are excited for the changes, which are targeted to be completed in April 2015.

Here is the teen area set for expansion.  It's usually quite busy when I go by there.

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Is having the Burlingame Library someting that has to me "Remodeled every few years now?"
That seems unusual do to the entire complex being rebuilt @ 10 years ago.
I love the feel of books when I read.
The closest I have come to a real 'old-fashioned book has been about five years now....
I take my Kindle with me everywhere.
I read over 100 books a year on subjects I care about, no nothing about, and given the speed that about new science, and Social this World we live in evolves, I read about things I have no interest in because it may be important to share with others who care about where this world we live in is going to, or leaving from.
I believe that this or any improvement to the existing City of Burlingame Library is another waste of time and money.
How these so called improvements get Green Lighted is beyond me.
All the more import to shake up the City of Burlingame Elders, in a CLEAN SWEEP, and bring into the present infrastructure, a political cadre of politicians that are living in the present-Family Values, and let go of the Happy Days of the 1950's.
I guess the Easton Library is ready for a new remodel too.