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Opening Reception

September 10, 2014, 6 - 7:30 PM

In 2004, under the administration of then mayor Anthony Williams, members of the District of Columbia Public Library board toured the country to explore library systems and research current trends in innovative library design. The goal: to gather information and form ideas for the improvement of DC’s aging centers for learning. Ten years later, under the skilled management of Library Director Ginnie Cooper, the DC Public Library system has exceeded these expectations to become a visionary example in both form and function of what a 21st century library can be.

The exhibition provided a glimpse of the DC Public Library system’s revitalization established by the Library Building Program. It explored how it is invigorating communities, how it is molding the city as a center for civic architecture, and how it is fashioning a new age of public service.

Featured in the SIGAL Gallery were twelve of the seventeen neighborhood libraries completed or underway since the Library Building Program began, a retrospective view of the system’s Carnegie Library, and a prospective outlook of the city’s central library – Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.

Credits

Organized by AIA|DC for the SIGAL Gallery and generously supported by ABC Imaging.