Stephen King And Wife Tabitha King Pledge $3M To Bangor Public Library In Maine
Stephen King and his wife have agreed to pay $3 million to overhaul their century-old hometown library in Maine, as long as $6 million is raised from other sources.
Tabitha King, the author’s wife, serves on the building committee of the Bangor Public Library, which is planning a $9 million modernization. She’s also a former longtime board member.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Stephen King And Wife Tabitha King Pledge $3M To Bangor Public Library In Maine”
That is so exciting to see and read about! Kudos to them. It seems like so much money is currently being taken away from public libraries right now, so it’s incredible to see such support!
That is so exciting to see and read about! Kudos to them. It seems like so much money is currently being taken away from public libraries right now, so it’s incredible to see such support!