Contra Costa Times: East Bay MacArthur Fellows discuss their six-figure ideas, May 12, 2011
The East Bay MacArthur Fellows gathered at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center to share how they became recipients of the $500,000 no-strings-attached fellowship awards.

Lamorinda Weekly, NASA Photos from Space Make an Impact on Students, May 11, 2011
Dr. Margaret Race, member of the Board of Trustees at the LLLC Foundation, delivered a special program, "From the Earth to the Universe," for students in grades five through twelve. Her presentation accompanied an award-winning NASA photo on display in the library.

Lafayette Today, The Bookworm, May 2011
Ongoing consideration is being given to changing library open hours to better serve the needs of library patrons. Initially considered for the month of May, any change will likely take place during the summer and is scheduled to be announced in June or July.

Lamorinda Patch: Google Lit Trip Creator Takes Lafayette Audience Around the World, April 21, 2011
At Science Cafe, a Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation event on April 19, 45 audience members traveled to Madrid, Santiago, Boston and Ghazi Stadium in Afghanistan, all without leaving their seats. Jerome Burg, a Microsoft Education Award Winner and founder of Google Lit Trips, made the journey possible by using Google Earth to take readers on visual adventures through modern and classical literature.

Contra Costa Times: Louie Zamperini To Share Stories of a Life Redeemed, April 14, 2011
Louis Zamperini will speak to 400 lucky ticket holders - youth groups, schools, veterans’ organizations and the Lafayette community - on April 17 at Acalanes Performing Arts Center in Lafayette. He will share stories not included in the book “Unbroken,” and impart words of wisdom about living life.

Lamorinda Weekly: Fate Brings War Hero To Lafayette, April 13, 2011
The Mulvaney Family gives Lafayette the gift of a visit from Louis Zamperini - former Olympic athlete, Army Bombardier, survivor of a plane crash and forty-seven days on a life raft at sea and a Japanese POW camp, and star of the phenomenal best seller, "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand. The event will be a fundraiser for the Lafayette Library and Leaning Center Foundation.

Lafayette Today: The Book Worm and LLLCF Calendar, July 2010 – April 2011
There are so many incredible events going on at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. Read about them and the fabulous news from LLLC, Friends of LLLC and its Book Shop and the LLLC Foundation.

Contra Costa Times: Lafayette Citizen of the Year: Karen Mulvaney's 'fundamental cornerstone' service, March 10, 2011
Lafayette Citizen of the Year 2011 Karen Mulvaney, member of the board of the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation, embodies service to the community and has been a doer in Lafayette since she moved here in 1986. She “believe[s] that schools and the library are the fundamental cornerstones of a community.”

Lamorinda Weekly: Karen Mulvaney: Citizen of the Year, March 2, 2011
Karen Mulvaney, Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation Trustee, receives the much deserved award of Citizen of the Year.

Lamorinda Sun: Karen Mulvaney is Lafayette's 2011 Citizen of the Year, February 17, 2011
A dinner will be held to honor Lafayette Citizen of the Year 2011, Karen Mulvaney, member of the Board of Trustees at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation. The event will be held Friday, March 25 at the Lafayette Park Hotel & Spa.

Lafayette Today: The Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium’s 12 Bay Area Organizations, July 2010 – March 2011
One of the 12 Bay Area organizations that make up the Lafayette Library and Learning Center’s Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium (GSLC) is featured each month. All of the GSLC’s education, science and arts institutions will be covered by June 2011.

Lamorinda Weekly: Lafayette Library's Successful First Year, November 10, 2010
More than 1000 patrons daily come to enjoy the “community living room” that is the new library. From little ones to seniors, they come to enjoy the plethora of books, magazines, audio materials, computers, homework help, comfy chairs and a food-friendly policy!

Lafayette Vistas: Library Grand Opening, Fall 2009
There is so much to celebrate with the opening of the new Lafayette Library and Learning Center. Don’t miss the Gala Preview Party to the Grand Opening and be sure to “check out” all of the unique features of this stunning new library.

Lamorinda Weekly: Discover & Go Free Museum Passes, February 16, 2011
The Contra Costa County Library is offering complimentary museum passes for a growing number of museums and cultural institutions around the Bay Area. Reserve and print Discover & Go Museum Passes online at discover.ccclib.org.

Lamorinda Weekly: Foundation Celebrates Fundraising Goal, February 2, 2011
The Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation celebrates reaching its $4 million goal for the Open Doors, Open Mind campaign. Funds were raised to support longer hours, increased programming and sustainability of the building.

LA Times: U.S. public libraries: We lose them at our peril, July 6, 2010
"Libraries are an essential service in action, as well as an effective leveler of privilege and avenue of reinvention. As budget cuts affect more facilities, children will be the first to suffer."

Lamorinda Weekly: Earth Day in Lafayette – Come Celebrate, March 30, 2010
The Lafayette Library and Learning Center partner with Sustainable Lafayette and the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce to celebrate Earth Day with an array eco-friendly, fun activities.

Lamorinda Weekly: Coffee with your library book?, March 30, 2010
With a menu that features a variety of book-inspired fare like the "Chicken Little" a chicken pesto sandwich, and "Jungle Book" a vegetarian sandwich along, the environmentally friendly Bookmark Café is up and running at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center.

Lamorinda Weekly: Lafayette Library and Learning Center Reaches Out to Seniors, March 3, 2010
Senior citizens make up 30% Lafayette Library and Learning Center’s current visitors. “We heard from so many seniors that this was the first time they'd set foot in a library since 1960, or before," says Weaver.

Blogspot.com: Soccer Mom Writing from the Lafayette library Sunday..., January 25, 2010
This soccer mom finds the multi-generational hum at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center alluring. It is a “quiet, inviting place to hang out, and read, do work, or, as I am now, blog (free wi-fi!)…[it ]…feels like a thing of the present and even the future.”

Lamorinda Weekly: Lafayette’s Fountain of Youth, November 25, 2009
The new Lafayette Library and Leaning Center allows for expanded youth programming that leaves a lasting impression.

Contra Costa Times: Barnidge: Libraries aren't just for books anymore, November, 22 2009
As startling as this may seem in the era of Facebook, Twitter and texting, appreciation for literature may yet survive this generation. The signs are everywhere, if you look up from your BlackBerry to see them.
Contra Costa Times: County Sheds $3.3 million in library spending. [link to PDF attached] November 20, 2009
Contra Costa County's libraries are on their way to shaving $3.3 million of a $24 million budget by negotiating with cities to share costs of providing service, along with a host of budget cuts.

New York Times: Community Cheers as New Library Opens, November 16, 2009
The opening of the new Lafayette Library and Learning Center was not a day to browse the 110,000 books, but rather to marvel at what a community can do when it comes together.

Contra Costa Times Editorial: New library in Lafayette is a major community asset, November 16, 2009
There are few services local government provides that are more important than libraries. Yes, police, fire protection and schools are essential. But, after that, when we look for an institution that provides a place of community, a place for people of all ages to learn and grow intellectually, it's our libraries.

Contra Costa Times: New Lafayette library ready for grand opening, November 12, 2009
The finishing touches are still being put on the signature bronze sculpture, books are still being labeled and some of the furniture is still being loaded, but the new Lafayette library is finally ready for its first chapter.

Lamorinda Weekly: Library Gala an Impressive Success, November 11, 2009
It was a party more than ten years in the making. Who knew that the citizens of Lafayette could come together to turn a retro shoebox library from a frog to prince charming and in the process unite an entire community to support a commitment to education and lifelong learning?

San Francisco Chronicle: California libraries - where the action is, November 8, 2009
Libraries are "one of the last great civic spaces in our society," as Berkeley librarian Jack Baur aptly puts it - a place where anyone can read the newspaper, check e-mails, do homework or just sit and enjoy a safe and quiet space.

Contra Costa Times: Nilda Rego: Voices from the past keep Lafayette in memory, June 14, 2009
"Voices of Lafayette, A Collection of Oral Histories" came out this spring and is available at the Lafayette Library for $19.95.

Wall Street Journal: Folks Are Flocking to the Library, a Cozy Place to Look for a Job, January 15, 2009
The Internet was on its way to making Libraries irrelevant. But as the newly unemployed head to libraries to conduct their job searches, libraries across the country are reporting up to 65% increases in attendance over last year.

Contra Costa Times From the Community: Steve Falk: Who says libraries are dead?, April 11, 2008
Twenty years into the Internet age, libraries are supposed to be dead. Instead, people still love their libraries, rely on them as a focus of activity and refuse to stop using and supporting them.

Diablo Magazine: Beyond Books, June 2008
Under Anne Cain's leadership, Contra Costa's libraries have become high-tech community centers, and the most inclusive and innovative in the United States.

If you are a journalist looking for information about the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation and/or the Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium, please contact:

Campaign Director
Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation
3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd, Suite 214
Lafayette, CA 94549
Phone: (925) 283-6513
Fax: (925) 283-8137
director@lafayettelib.org

If you are looking for information about the Lafayette Library and Learning Center, please contact:

Susan Weaver, Senior Community Library Manager
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd
Lafayette, CA 94549
Phone: (925) 385-2280
sweaver@ccclib.org