{"id":2239,"date":"2025-03-19T18:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2025-03-19T18:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:47:57","slug":"grant-awarded-to-the-new-berlin-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/grant-awarded-to-the-new-berlin-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Awarded to the New Berlin Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grant Awarded to the New Berlin Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New Berlin Library was awarded a Community Foundation for South Central New York Library Grant.&nbsp; This grant was for written by the library director, Michelle Priola, for the creation of a Young Adult Area at the New Berlin Library.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The library wanted to create a teen friendly space in the library where young adults can interact in a safe and non-commercial setting.&nbsp; We felt that this space was especially needed due to the recent closure of the New Berlin Youth Center.&nbsp; The New Berlin Library serves a mostly rural community with limited options for social interaction, especially for teens and young adults.&nbsp; The library hopes this space will fulfill that need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The grant was used to purchase a sofa, chairs, side tables with charging ports, and art work to transform the Young Adult book section of the library into a comfortable, safe, and friendly place for young people to congregate without any pressure to spend money or risk of loitering.&nbsp; The space continues to house the library\u2019s Young Adult book collection, but the antiques other items were relocated to make room for the new furniture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"855\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/YA-Section-Update-1024x855.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/YA-Section-Update-1024x855.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/YA-Section-Update-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/YA-Section-Update-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/YA-Section-Update-1536x1282.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/YA-Section-Update-2048x1710.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Awarded to the New Berlin Library The New Berlin Library was awarded a Community Foundation for South Central New York Library Grant.&nbsp; This grant was for written by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-foundation","category-library-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/newberlin\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}