Chinatown Library Community Vision Meeting 6/8

JOIN US! Chinatown Library Community Vision Meeting Monday, June 8, 2015 6:30PM Josiah Quincy School Cafeteria 885 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111 The Chinese Youth Initiative in partnership with the Chinatown (Lantern) Cultural Center Committee will host a Chinatown Library Community meeting on Monday, June 8 at the Josiah Quincy School to present residents, supporters, and city officials with the vision for a Chinatown Library developed through community focus groups. Throughout the past year, Chinese Youth Initiative has continued to advocate for library services and a Chinatown Branch Library. Youth from the program met with almost all of the City Councilors' offices and State Representatives to ask for City and State funding for a Boston Public Library branch in Chinatown. Most recently, Chinese Youth Initiative conducted focus groups with youth, parents, and elderly to build a community vision for a Chinatown library with particular focus on services, spaces, and roles community members see a Chinatown Library providing. Chinese Youth Initiative and the Chinatown (Lantern) Cultural Center Committee ask for a commitment from the Boston Public Library, the Mayor's Office and City Council to prioritize a Chinatown library within next year's budget: A planning grant for a Chinatown Branch Library to be added to the City of Boston's capital budget for the upcoming fiscal year City funded interim library services to be provided through the community cultural center planned at One Greenway while a Chinatown Branch is in the planning and construction stages