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Ridgewood High School library upgrade campaign ramped up
Ridgewood High School library upgrade campaign ramped up
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2012, 4:44 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The Ridgewood High School (RHS) Home and School Association (HSA) will soon launch an aggressive fall fundraising campaign to pay for the transformation of the RHS library into a space better suited for 21st century learners. The renovation will potentially cost $850,000.
a preliminary design of what the Learning Commons at Ridgewood High School might look like.
The new RHS Learning Commons would replace a library that has not been renovated since it was originally designed in 1963. Among other improvements, it would include new conference rooms, printers, TV monitors, a café and moveable bookshelves to allow for doubled seating capacity, according to a preliminary floor plan drafted this summer by the architecture firm LAN Associates.
A proposed addition, to include two new conference rooms and a lounge seating area, would utilize space from a server room and part of a classroom, according to David Zrike, co-chair of the association’s development committee. The TV monitors would broadcast news stations, he noted.
According to the RHS HSA, the proposal will be discussed at next Monday’s Board of Education (BOE) public meeting, scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
So let be understand this. We have a state of the art Village of Ridgewood
Library and now we need a to do the High School Library. The HSA wants us to believe that they are going to raise the money relying on donations? Brother this just going to far.