Contact:  Joanne Hinkel

              Boise Public Library

              208-384-4372

              jhinkel@cityofboise.org 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –  

Boise’s First Branch Library Opens Next Week!

Grand Opening Ceremony Scheduled for February 20

(Boise, Idaho – 2/12/2008) Mayor David Bieter and the Boise Public Library Board of Trustees announce the grand opening of Boise’s first neighborhood branch library, the Library! at Collister.

The ceremony is scheduled from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 20, at the library’s entrance at 4724 West State Street. The library is located in Northwest Boise in the Collister Shopping Center at Collister and State.

“The new Collister library is an important milestone as we strengthen our community’s educational infrastructure, deliver services at the neighborhood level and protect Boise’s livability,” said Mayor Bieter. Mayor Bieter and Library Board Vice-President Martie Brennan will wield a pair of 36-inch giant scissors as they cut the ribbon and officially open the library.

The City of Boise will be opening three full-service libraries over the next year and a half. The facilities will offer surrounding neighborhoods the use of library computers, Internet access, reference services and programs, plus books, movies and music.

The opening of the Library! at Collister will be followed next month by a grand opening for the Library! at Hillcrest, located in the Hillcrest Shopping Center and serving Boise’s Central Bench area.

The City will break ground this spring on a third library in West Boise at Cole and Ustick, opening in 2009. A fourth library planned for Southeast Boise is expected to open in 2010.

For more information, call Library Administration at 384-4238 weekdays.

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