Happy Birthday, WWW

The World Wid Web turned 20 last Friday. Back on March 13, 1989, a computer scientist at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) suggested a way for particle physicists to better share their information and the development of HTML was born.

In case none of that makes sense to you, all you need to know is HTML is likely the computer code that is making this and most other websites easy to read, colorful, and readily available to the public. Before that, the Internet was text-based and much more difficult to use.

So thanks, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for making our lives more interesting and for expanding information access to all of us.

Elvita

We have a name!

The official name for the library's soon to be coffee shop will be Mango Tree Coffee Shop.

Selected by vendor Harsha Mistry and approved by the Brookings Public Library Board, the name reflects the spirit of the shop which will include fruit flavored drinks as well as coffees and teas.

Remodeling will start in April with a summer opening.

Elvita

We're on our way!

All the official regulatory steps have been taken for the library coffee shop to move to the next step. The next steps are

1) the bid announcement is in the newspaper, encouraging contractors to get the construction documents from Banner Associates and submit a bid
2) after 2 legal notices and 10 days, bids will be opened on March 17
3) the City Council will consider and hopefully approve the bids on March 24
4) contracts are signed and the work commences

We're eager for it all to begin!

Elvita