DaybyDay
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 | | 05/21/2008 4:17 PM |
 Alert | Did you all read the article in the Communicator about a new library coming?! It sounds like it is in its final approval stages and will be located at Smith Enke and Porter! The budget includes the huge library plus money for lots and lots of books! Yea! Something real and tangible! | | | |
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spl002
Posts:28
| | 05/21/2008 4:55 PM |
Alert | | GREAT!!!! I am so excited...that made my day. My question is why is this news not on the city of maricopa site or any other internet news site for Marcioppa. It was on the communicator but this is BIG news. Don't understand why the city doesn't do a better job of posting this stuff on the city website. This sort of news gets residents excited. | |
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CaliGurl~n~Copa
Posts:340
| | 05/22/2008 2:05 PM |
Alert | It is not in a bad area either. Not too far away from the main strip, and not too far from the city park. The homeowners of RED should get excited. These kind of things help sell a house. I look foward to the new library. Slowly but surely! | |
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JasonY
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| | 05/23/2008 7:56 AM |
Alert | | It's about time we got a larger library. The library accepts your used books, a great way to donate to the community. | |
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asugrl
Posts:700
| | 05/23/2008 12:53 PM |
Alert | Posted By CaliGurl~n~Copa on 05/22/2008 2:05 PM
It is not in a bad area either. Not too far away from the main strip, and not too far from the city park. The homeowners of RED should get excited. These kind of things help sell a house. I look foward to the new library. Slowly but surely! Hey, what about the homeowners of Homestead? I for one am excited. | | | |
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JBinRED
Posts:44
| | 05/23/2008 6:10 PM |
Alert | This should be pasted all over the home page, with pictures, and all! This is the best news we've had in ages (besides the election)! Was it that hard to go a mile to vote? | | | |
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spl002
Posts:28
| | 05/24/2008 1:35 AM |
Alert | | I agree. This library is suppossed to be 8000 square feet with another being built in several years. They want the other one to have over 50,000 square feet. That is about the size of the tempe library. AWESOME! I think in five years we will all be glad we moved here. | |
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RichTig
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| | 05/24/2008 8:50 AM |
Alert | I don't know if any of you have heard. But there's this new thing called the 'internet', that made the library obsolete. | | | |
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Ebay1
Posts:136
| | 05/24/2008 6:38 PM |
Alert | Posted By RichTig on 05/24/2008 8:50 AM I don't know if any of you have heard. But there's this new thing called the 'internet', that made the library obsolete.
Many reasons why your statement is wrong.
The internet is a mass of largely unpublished materials produced by organizations, businesses, individuals, experimental projects, entrepreneurial webmasters, etc. Online Collections are different. They are typically provided by libraries and include include books, journals, documents, newspapers, magazines and reports which are digitized, stored and indexed through a limited-access database. While one might use the internet or a search engine to find these databases, deeper access to them requires registration. You are still online, but you are no longer on the internet. You are in a library. | | | |
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hastings1066
Posts:1004
| | 05/24/2008 8:53 PM |
Alert | Posted By RichTig on 05/24/2008 8:50 AM I don't know if any of you have heard. But there's this new thing called the 'internet', that made the library obsolete.
Nothing will ever be able to take the place of spending an evening sitting in a comfortable chair and reading a good book. | | | |
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spl002
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| | 05/24/2008 11:43 PM |
Alert | Since everyone is unloading on RichTig's comment I will join in. (Sorry RichTig). Another huge issue is the ease of reading a paper book. Trying to read an ebook is very, very frustrating. First of all you can't mark it, highlight it etc. Also, you can not tag pages as easy on an ebook. Turning pages is easier with a real book.
Also, you can't take an ebook with you everywhere unless you carry your computer. It is not as comfortable to lie down in bed with a good book if you have to have your computer to read the book.
I am being realistic and I think paper books are probably here to stay...for at least those of us who learned to read with paper books. Maybe in the future consumers will not be interested in paper books. However, for now all you have to do is look at how many people still buy and there is still a market for paper books. As long as people continue to buy paper books they will stay.
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RichTig
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| | 05/25/2008 5:09 PM |
Alert | Posted By Ebay1 on 05/24/2008 6:38 PM Posted By RichTig on 05/24/2008 8:50 AM I don't know if any of you have heard. But there's this new thing called the 'internet', that made the library obsolete.
Many reasons why your statement is wrong.
The internet is a mass of largely unpublished materials produced by organizations, businesses, individuals, experimental projects, entrepreneurial webmasters, etc. Online Collections are different. They are typically provided by libraries and include include books, journals, documents, newspapers, magazines and reports which are digitized, stored and indexed through a limited-access database. While one might use the internet or a search engine to find these databases, deeper access to them requires registration. You are still online, but you are no longer on the internet. You are in a library. A digital library on the internet, which you can access from home. As soon as a reference book is printed, it is out of date. Move on people. Let the paper go. Go to Amazon and buy a Kindle and join 2008. | | | |
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Granny5X
Posts:369
| | 05/25/2008 7:20 PM |
Alert | Have you ever found a forum that you just had to respond to, and spent 30 minutes typing your reply, submit it, and find that it doesn't exist? Does that usually mean that the "powers that be " deleated it? Was I monitored and zapped from posting? I was't bad, just in formative. The only bad word I used was p---ed. The missing letters are "iss" Did Granny screw up? | |
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tf9805
Posts:0
| | 05/25/2008 10:32 PM |
Alert | What great news!
What does "The homeowners of RED" mean? | | | |
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asugrl
Posts:700
| | 05/25/2008 10:57 PM |
Alert | Posted By tf9805 on 05/25/2008 10:32 PM
What great news!
What does "The homeowners of RED" mean? It means the homeowners of Rancho El Dorado, which is odd anyway, considering the library will be closer to Homestead than RED. However, I am not excited because it will boost home values, but more so because I can walk there (though honestly I will probably still drive there, lol, but it's the principle of the matter). | | | |
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TortosaGuy
Posts:717
| | 05/26/2008 1:58 PM |
Alert | | i did notice they fenced off the area where porter butts up against smith-enke a couple of weeks back...this must be the location you speak of | |
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Ebay1
Posts:136
| | 05/26/2008 5:06 PM |
Alert | Posted By TortosaGuy on 05/26/2008 1:58 PM
i did notice they fenced off the area where porter butts up against smith-enke a couple of weeks back...this must be the location you speak of
I saw the fenced off site too but it has a UTAZ sign. UTAZ usually builds office condos. Anyone know what is going across the street from the fenced off site?
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TortosaGuy
Posts:717
| | 05/26/2008 7:32 PM |
Alert | | ebay....i saw the utaz sign as well...and they used to have a trailer there...is the trailer still there or has it been removed? | |
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Devil Dog
Posts:419
| | 05/27/2008 1:15 AM |
Alert | | Goundbreaking on June 03 at 8:30 AM. | |
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Ebay1
Posts:136
| | 05/28/2008 2:14 PM |
Alert | Posted By TortosaGuy on 05/26/2008 7:32 PM
ebay....i saw the utaz sign as well...and they used to have a trailer there...is the trailer still there or has it been removed?
TortosaGuy...The UTAZ trailer is still there.
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