Haines gets national library honors.(Applause)(Haines Borough Public Library received Best Small Library" of 2005 by the Library Journal)(Brief Article)

Alaska Business Monthly | April 1, 2005| | Copyright

The Haines Borough Public Library has been named "Best Small Library" of 2005 by the Library Journal and has received a $10,000 prize from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The public spirit of Haines, several local agencies and many others started a snowball effect.

USDA Rural Development previously obligated a direct loan of $225,000 and a grant for $1.1 million in September of 2001, coming from a special economic initiative. The Haines Borough then provided the land valued at $135,000 and $8,600 in cash. There was a municipal matching grant of $60,365, ...

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