BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE LIBRARY OFFERS SERVICES TO PUBLIC LIBRARY USERS
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October 10, 2001, Bloomfield, NJ -- The Bloomfield College library is allowing local residents to use its facilities, particularly during the week of October 22 to October 25, when a motion picture production company will be filming in the Bloomfield Public Library.
The Bloomfield Public Library has signed an agreement with Mary Jane Productions of New York to use the main library’s reference department and computer area over those four days. The production company is working on a motion picture starring Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore. Public library patrons can come to the Bloomfield College Library, corner of Liberty Street and Oakland Avenue, where they may use the College’s computer facilities and reference resources.
In addition, the Bloomfield College Library will be showing lunchtime films during the week of October 22. The College will show Annie Hall on Monday, October 22; The Third Man on Tuesday, October 23; and 2001: A Space Odyssey on Wednesday, October 24. All showings begin at noon.
“The Bloomfield College Library has always been available to local residents, but we are especially pleased that we can be of service to the Township and our friends at the Bloomfield Public Library during the filming,” said Bloomfield College Library Director Dan Figueredo. “This is also a wonderful opportunity for local residents to tour our new facility for the first time.”
The Bloomfield College Library, which opened last fall, was the first new building on campus in 30 years. The $7 million building more than doubled the space of the previous library, Talbott Hall, which opened in 1955 to serve an enrollment of 200 students. Today, the College enrolls 1,900 students.
“We started out to build a library, but what we got was a spaceship that is taking our students and neighbors around the world in their quest for knowledge,” said President John F. Noonan. “Thanks to the million dollars worth of electronics in the new library, Bloomfield College students have access to the same knowledge resources that students at Harvard have.”
The library features interactive classrooms, a media center, a computer center, an electronic reference collection and more than 200 ports of Internet access.
Founded in 1868, Bloomfield College is an independent, four-year co-educational institution offering programs in the liberal arts and professional studies. For more than 130 years, Bloomfield College has provided educational opportunities for first-generation college students and students whose circumstances and needs threaten to exclude them from higher education. The College has gained national recognition for its academic and co-curricular programs and for its leadership role in multicultural education.
