Carson City celebrates new library Digitorium with ribbon-cutting
Surrounded by officials from the Carson City School District, the Board of Supervisors and Library Trustees, Library board president Sandy Foley cuts the ribbon at a grand reopening of the Digitorium on Thursday at the Carson City Library.
The auditorium conversion into a digital commons, complete with new technology, has strategic programming goals focused on teens. Taken together the library can better serve the community’s most pressing needs, especially those that are related to building or sharpening marketable skills and providing essential support to public, private, charter and home school teachers, students and families.
“With this plan, the library proclaims its mission as a center for knowledge and discovery. The library will inspire learning, facilitate connection and create opportunity for our community,” said Library Director Sena Loyd earlier this month.
In addition to the converted auditorium space, library technology highlights also provide an adult computer training hub, advanced Macs and PC’s, a small meeting room, an electronic conversion station capable of moving content from one format to another (like VHS to digital files) and video and photo equipment check out. Patrons in good-standing who wish to access these resources may do so with a premiere library card.
Qualifying patrons, who are free of fees, overdue or late items have a valid photo ID and who sign the premier library card agreement will have access to the advanced technology. In addition, teens in high school, age 14 to 17, may access similar resources in the youth department and the digitorium, with a signed premier library card agreement from a parent or legal guardian.
The opening of the digitorium is the final phase in space changes driven from the new strategic plan. A partnership with the Nevada State Library and Archives Library Services Technology Act grant program and matching funds from the Friends of the Library and Library Foundation are the library’s funding sources for the digitorium, Carson City School District partnership during this school year.
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