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BY DARBELL CLEM Best Buy's retail operations at 35300 STAFF WRITER » Central City Parkway will move slightly dcleiii9oeJiomecoiiuu.net east to the corner of Wayne Road by late Study session: Westland Best Buy will move its growing West- October, before the onslaught of 1999's City Council plans a land business east on Central City Park Christmas shopping" season, Cook-Haxby study session for 7 p. m. way to the long-vacant Handy Andy build said. ing - eliminating a glaring eyesore and The current Westland store will remain Monday at Westland City creating new jobs, officials said. open until officials are ready to welcome Hall, 36601 Ford Road. "We're practically doubling our space," shoppers into the old Handy Andy site. Jacki Cook-Haxby, regional development "There will be no down time at all," manager, said. "The store will be larger, so Cook-Haxby said. GOP: Western Wayne that would indicate to me that there will City officials haven't announced a new Republican Club meets 7 be more employees.'' p.m. Monday at Amdn- " - Please see BEST BUY, A2 tea% 32777 W. Warren, TUESDAY State of Chamber: West- are ready to em land Chamber of Com merce President Bonnie BY DARRELL CLEM under a city ordinance for theft of library STAFF WRITER materials - punishable by a maximum 90- Carre-will deliver the [email protected] . day jail term and a $500 fine. State of the Chamber Westland library patrons will how have "We haven't yet prosecuted anyone," address at the monthly the book thrown at them for having over assistant city prosecutor Joanna Bennett due materials. said. "But it's starting." chamber luncheon begin Keep a detective novel too long and end Library officials say they're launching a ning at 11:30 a.m. Tues up a criminal. No fiction. crackdown to recoup tens of thousands of day at Joy Manor, Joy Library officials, accusing some patrons dollars in materials that delinquent of theft of materials, have started turning patrons are keeping from other customers. Road east of Middlebelt names over to Westland police. Missing library materials amount to in Westland. "If they wish to avoid police contact," $72,500, Joe' Bur chill, assistant to the Chief Emery Price warned, "then they director, said. , • - need to return the books.'' Library officials want patrons to know Friends of library: The Book bandits could face prosecution Friends of the William P. Please see BOOM, A2 FaUstPii blic Library meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the library, 6123 Central City Parkway. Call (734) 326-6123. : WEDNESDAY BY J<XA N;j*;E ;M A tlSZ EW S K I ;'.'.;••;•:'.S f A-F F ^ VVRrtE R , As diverse as are the communities Today is the start of National have also affected how libraries are State of City: Westland of Farmington, Farmington Hills, Library Weeki We chose this edition staffed, as well as created a need for Garden City, Westland, the Ply- of the Observer to tell you about more volunteers. Mayor Robert Thomas mouths, Canton, Redford and Livo libraries and how they've changed. Despite our computer age, books will deliver the State of nia, one thing is certain: the libraries Where once you had to use a cumber remain as popular as ever. Some the City address begin remain perhaps the most popular and some card catalog to find a book or libraries, such as Farmington, have well-used institution in each commu magazine, today you turn on a com increased their book budgets because ning at 6 p.m. Wednesday nity. : puter for the same.- and even more - patrons still demand the latest titles at the Hellenic Cultural That's true whether the library information. and still demand books that you Center, 36376 Joy Road began in old Farmington schoolhous- But it all comes at a cost- might not readily find in a bookstore. in Westland. es, a Livonia storefront, a fire hall in .Each day, more demands are put on And if you can't find it in your local Redford, or as a brand new multimil- libraries for materials and computer library, the staff will get it for you lion dollar building in Westland. services - and for space. Take a look through an interlibrary loan. The From their beginnings, at some of our libraries and same goes for CDs, video tapes, THURSDAY libraries in each of our com NATIONAL the pushes for expansion. The record albums, cassettes - well, you LIBRARY munities were faced with a Plymouth District Library name it. WEEK tax deadline: Thursday is common problem -once they last year opened a new and The truth is, people love libraries existed, you couldn't keep people larger library on the site where the and they are - if not already - the deadline to file state away from them. former library stood. The Farmington increasingly becoming gathering and federal income tax That fact holds true today, despite Hills branch will be expanded and places in a community. The library of forms increased disposable income that improvements made at the branch in old where children were continually would allow an average patron to buy downtown Farmington. A couple of hushed are now replaced with study books, CDs, a computer - maybe even years ago, Westland - its residents areas where students may talk. In INDEX a copying machine. had used other communities' libraries others, large easy chairs have Ask anyone on the street about - finally opened its own library. replaced straight-backed chairs so Today, Livonia has three branches. patrons may have a casual hour read STATT PHOTO BY BILL BHESLM • Obituaries A3 libraries and they will likely tell you that a library is a gateway to all In Canton, plans are under way to ing a book in front of a fireplace. Changing times: In every library in • Classified Index E5 kinds of information. The challenge expand the library by another 21,000 And in still others, we hear rum Farmington> Plymouth, Canton, Real Estate El today - compared to the late 1800s square feet. blings that a nice coffee bar would be Westland, Garden City, Livonia and Crossword E8 when the Farmington library started, As with any type of financing, it's a tremendous stride to further mak Redford, you will see scenes like this - Jobs •-' y- Gl or the 1950s when the Livonia library never easy to understand. But we ing a library a place where you can began, or 1980 when Canton's took will give you some idea of just what relax, or start some serious research. the changing ways of libraries - with Home A Service H5 shape - is how you choose to access goes into a library budget and where It's all in how you choose to use patrons at a keyboard tapping into , Automotive H7 that information. the money comes from. The changes your library. information aroundtthe world. • Taste' : >' • Health * Fitness 3MB*L" _ • Arts A Leisure m Local librarians help patrons find their way on the Web c7 If row* took** for IMarmsiion in«ytortpac«, • Sports A Recreation Dl • foodptsostosurtf*: BYKEELYWYGONTK See rotated stories, Page A7 dicts Joan Elmouchi, director of the STAFF WRITER Garden City Public Library. "Some Tina tatsMst aMt -wM stss Mnfc yby to things previously available in pur Hsjfirisa.lnysMrcofWfWPty. kwygonikQoe.hoinecomin.net Farmington, Livonia, Plymouth, and HOW TO REACH US Westland regularly offer classes to chased format will be Interriet based," Information comes in lots of differ Garden City has two Internet sta -/.-/ V: ent packages at your neighborhood help you find what you're looking for on the Internet. tions at its library. They're gateways public library. You can still check out to a world of information, some of Newsroom734-953-210 4 books, but there are options too includ- If you live in Canton, Farmington, Newsroom Fax734*591-727 9 or Farmington Hills, you can apply for which isn't available on your home ing books on tape, CDs, cassettes, and computer. E-mail: bjacbmsmf otnonwconwn.r. m videos. ' ' a Metro Net Account-at .the. library and access the Internet, and special "The library program Access Michi Nightllne/SportS:734-983-240 4 Many libraries' provide access to the gan is bringing informational data Internet, and some have fax ized data bases from home. Reader Qomment Line:e: 734-954-204 2 WORLD "Information technology is bases to libraries through the Inter machines too. Librarians can net," she said. "They're very powerful . Classified Advertising;?, 734^^090 0 help you find the book you're WIOI not a fad. There are more data bases that are expensive to sub looking for, and a Web site that WtB resources available digitally," Display Advertising:,^34f«k--230 0 scribe to." Home lively: 7344914)500 contains up-to-the-minute' information said Farmington Public Library about what's happening in Kosovo.