PROJECT 2: PROPOSAL TO CREATE REFERENCE LIBRARY

The city that I am interested in opening up a library is Huntington Beach of California; this city has a population of 193566 people. The city has an unemployment rate of 7.3%.  The industry type includes: 15% of sale related jobs, 27% of office administration and management jobs, 6% of financial business job, 6% of education training and librarian jobs, 5% health care job, 5% construction jobs, 3% food service job, and 3% of architecture/engineer jobs.  The city of Huntington Beach is consisted of 74,681 households with 48,254 households are family households; there is a total of 77,013 housing units which is comprised of 60.29% of owner occupied and 39.71% of renter occupied.  When it comes to household income, the city of Huntington Beach has the following breakdown: 1.56% of household income at or above $ 500,000, 7.39% of household with income from $200,000 to $499,999, 9.88% of household income $150,000 - $199,999, 20.71% of household with income $100,000 - $149,999, 15.99% of household with income $75,000 - $99,000. In term of age distribution, Huntington Beach city is consisted of 11.46% of people at nine year of age or younger, 9.73% of eleven to seventeen year of age, 8.1% of eighteen to twenty four year old people, 13.63% of twenty five to thirty four year old people, 15.27% of thirty five to forty four year old people, 15.94% of forty five to fifty four year old people, 12.81% of fifty five to sixty four year old people, and 12.06% of sixty five or older.  Furthermore, the Huntington Beach city also has about 75% of people who has from some kind of college degree to doctorate degree (City of Huntington Beach: http://www.ci.huntington-beach.ca.us/business/demographics/)

            The Huntington Beach Central Public is a public library, and it has many programs besides providing book and material to patrons; for an example, this library has children events such as preschool book reading, face painting, disaster preparedness, adult computer training class, make up class, etc. It is located at 7111 Talbert Ave Huntington Beach, CA 92648 and has an URL of http://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov/government/departments/library/; this is the biggest and the main library in Huntington Beach.  One of its branches is the Helen Murphy public library which is located at 15882 Graham Street, Huntington Beach, CA, 92648 with an URL as http://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov/government/departments/Library/hours_location/helen_murphy_branch.cfm; this is a much smaller library with no extra classes or services comparing to the Central library.  After visiting these two public libraries, I have decided that the library which I plan to open will be a public library for students from first grade to high school; this library will have buses to pick up students from different schools and to drop students off at the library for after school program.  The reference area will be divided into twelve sections designated for twelve grades.  Here, tutors will make sure student understand and do their home works. For every hour of studying, a student will earn fifteen minutes of play time. Each section will have play table with toy, computer, and magazine material appropriate for each grade. The library will have free internet, hot and cold water, couches for students to lay down if they feel sleepy; the reference area will have a collection of World Atlas and a collection of Statistical Abstract Data of the United State so that students will have an opportunity to learn about different countries in the world and relate or compare that to the United State census data through Statistical Abstract Data of the U.S. 

The library data base will have electronic books of all grade school books, thus allowing students to read ahead for their next day class section. None of the libraries which I have known so far offering an after school program; as a result, the new library will definitely standout from the rest of other libraries.  But most of all, the library will be very practical to parents who work long hours and be useful to students who have hard time doing home work alone.  Furthermore, this library will recruit senior retirees to be tutors, thus pulling community together and helping each others.