Want to experience a community-based library-in-progress? Dying to learn more about Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park? Have time to offer? Hidden desire to meet some new people? You have come to the right place! Saturday, November 19 Saturday, November 26 Saturday, December 3 From 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., 2739 W. Division Street, Chicago (near the corner of Division and California) The Community Informatics Corps has been working with community residents and students to catalog a donated collection of 4,000 volumes in the Andrés Figueroa Cordero Library at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. The goal is to get this library functioning and open. With your help, it can happen! It’s fun, it’s social and it can make a difference. Please volunteer to do final shelf checks during these days and times—no experience needed and drop-ins are welcome. For more information: Contact Ann Bishop (abishop@uiuc.edu) or Nalani McClendon (nmcclen2@uiuc.edu) Andrés Figueroa Cordero Library http://www.prcc-chgo.org/afc_library.htm Paseo Boricua Community Library Project http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/pbcl To reach the Library at the Cultural Center on the work days, phone 773/342-8023 or Ann’s cell: 217/369-0014. |