The Wichita Public Library Foundation announced a major gift toward its new Advanced Learning Library.
Cox Business has donated $500,000 toward the new facility being built at 2nd and McLean. A cash gift of $250,000 will go toward the library’s Digital Pavilion, and the company will give another $250,000 in high-speed internet services. Foundation chairman Don Barry said during the mayor's briefing Thursday that the Advanced Learning Library capital campaign is now almost 80 percent complete.?
“It’s a common thing for people to get up here and say, you know, ‘We’re really excited about this. ‘ But let me tell you, today is the best part of the job," he said. "This is a mountaintop type experience."
The foundation has more than $6 million of its $8 million dollar campaign goal. The total cost of the library is about $37 million.
