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David Schwab | Noticias del Centro<\/p>\n

Libraries used to be in schools. Now schools are in libraries.<\/p>\n

A case in point: e3 Civic High (e3CH), a charter high school opening in September 2013, will occupy the 6th and 7th floors of San Diego’s new Downtown library opening late this summer.<\/p>\n

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The new Downtown Central Library, near completion, will house a charter high school. (Courtesy e3CH)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A school within a library is just one of many \u201cfirsts\u201d for the city’s new domed $184.9 million Central Library near Petco Park, which will be nearly triple the size of the existing 57-year-old facility at 820 E. St.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be a literary marvel, one of the first schools in the nation to co-exist with a library, providing access to more than one million resources,\u201d said Dr. Helen Griffith, executive director of the new high school, which will initially serve 250 students mostly from Downtown in grades 9 and 10.<\/p>\n

Dr. Griffith said plans for the new school have it expanding over the next five years to include grades 11-12 and doubling its student population to 500.<\/p>\n

\u201cA study done in the Downtown area in 2010 revealed a need, not only for more schools, but high-performing schools in the Downtown community,\u201d Griffith said adding, \u201cWe are trying to capture students in or near Downtown in a five-mile radius.\u201d<\/p>\n

High-performing schools, she said, are identified through student performance on state exams.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hope for this school is to provide college- and career-ready high-performance education using technological tools available through the library to accelerate and advance learning,\u201d Griffith said.<\/p>\n

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Artist’s rendering of a stairway inside e3 Civic High (e3CH). (Courtesy e3 Civic High)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She added that e3CH will be partnering with a number of other educational institutions, including City College, SDSU, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Point Loma Nazarene University, to provide tutoring and mentoring for its students.<\/p>\n

\u201cLearning for students will be self-paced, setting targets for growth in a content-based curriculum,\u201d Griffith said.<\/p>\n

Fundraising to support the Central Library facility, currently under construction at 395 11th Ave. in the East Village area of Downtown, has exceeded expectations. To date, more than 2,000 donors citywide have purchased 2,000-plus commemorative bricks offered through the San Diego Public Library Foundation’s \u201cBuy-A-Brick\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now over our projected numbers, both amount of bricks \u2013 more than 2,300 \u2013 and total giving \u2013 more than $500,000,\u201d said Charlie Goldberg, San Diego Library Foundation’s marketing director.<\/p>\n

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Sample brick from “buy a brick” program, which raises money for all the public libraries in the San Diego area. (Courtesy Public Library Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Goldberg said the intent was to create \u201ca library for the entire community supported by everyone, not just those who can make large donations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[The new library] is clearly the most visible project, but we’re [also] involved in helping fund new building or expansion of seven branch libraries,\u201d Goldberg added, noting the Foundation’s role is to \u201cfill gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere funding can help, that happens, so we can help make a difference in those areas,\u201d said Goldberg.<\/p>\n

The deadline to purchase bricks to be included in the library opening is May 15.<\/p>\n

Supplying all the latest technological advancements, San Diego’s new Downtown Central Library will cater to everyone in the community, while providing age-specific areas addressing the special needs of particular user groups like children and teens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a needs assessment [with] the community and they told us they wanted a big children’s room, a bigger teen space, a homework center and a gallery for adults and meeting areas,\u201d said library youth services coordinator Marina Claudio-Perez. \u201cWe do have all these age-specific areas,\u201d she said, adding \u201cwe’re pushing for inclusive services for all children \u2013 all cultures, all languages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claudio-Perez said the Dr. Seuss-themed Sanford Children’s Library for ages 6-12 will be divided into two sections for younger and older children, taking up 10,000 square feet of the library’s first floor. She said the it will also include such innovative features as a nursing room and stroller area for mothers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want this to be the destination for families,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The teen center will take up nearly 3,000 square feet on the library’s second floor, according to Claudio-Perez. \u201cDowntown has very limited space for teenagers who don’t really feel comfortable, safe and welcome,\u201d she said. \u201cOur teen space will answer that need.\u201d<\/p>\n

The youth services coordinator said the teen area geared for ages 13-18 will have a beach theme and include a game room with piped-in music and a homework center.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some kids technology access can only be found at their local library, so we’re giving them that, both for school and also as entertainment,\u201d Claudio-Perez said.<\/p>\n

San Diego’s new cutting-edge Central Library is a prototype supplying all the latest technological advancements.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacilitating technology, helping us bridge the digital divide, that’s part of our mission,\u201d said Marion Moss Hubbard, San Diego Library’s senior public information officer.<\/p>\n

Moss Hubbard said the nine-floor Central Library’s innovations will include an array of more than 400 computer devices of all types. The library will have disabled access, a 350-seat, state-of-the-art theater auditorium and fiber optics providing high-bandwidth transmissions facilitating high-speed Internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new Central Library will be one of the most progressive in the country in terms of its access to information and the technology that we will have,\u201d Moss Hubbard said. \u201cWe also will function as the region’s repository for government documents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new library will employ a number of other progressive developments. A conveyor belt running from the book drop through the children’s section will streamline service.<\/p>\n

Moss Hubbard also said there will be new entertaining and engaging components like a video wall providing a multi-angle, 3-D multi-sensory experience \u201cto grab the visitor’s attention when they come in the door\u201d letting them know they’re \u201centering a technology library of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the library’s many technological innovations:<\/p>\n