Articles about Anacostia

List of articles concerning the Anacostia Community.

• Needy Readers

  May 9, 2007, Washington Post Editorial -- Why is the city so quick to help out prosperous Georgetown when it's been so sluggish in other places, particularly less-influential neighborhoods across the river?

• At Rally, a Plea to Reopen Anacostia Library

  September 17, 2006, Washington Post -- Community leaders, parents and students gathered at the public library branch in Anacostia last week to demand that it be reopened immediately.

• Anacostia Library Held Hostage

  September 8, 2006, DC Resistance Media -- Anacostia residents gathered at the boarded doors of their library to hang ribbons in hopes that, after two long years of being held hostage, their library would be returned to them.

• D.C. to pay more than federal standard for library designs

  July 18, 2007, Washington Examiner -- D.C. officials are preparing to pay design contractors nearly three times the federal and industry standards for redesign of four libraries.

• Library Advocates Frustrated By Closed Libraries

  August 17, 2006, NBC4.com -- For almost two years, the Benning Road, Anacostia, Tenley-Friendship and Shaw libraries have been closed. Some library advocates said that with 37 percent of D.C.'s adult population lacking basic reading comprehension, all of the libraries need to be open.

• Overhaul Urged For D.C. Libraries,

  January 18, 2006, Washington Post -- More than $450 million is needed to properly fix the District's public library system, the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Taskforce on Libraries reported, because the buildings suffer from years of neglect and should be almost entirely rebuilt.

• Anacostia Neighborhood Library Demolition Signals Positive Changes to Come

  June 1, 2008, East of the River Magazine -- Donning a hard hat and a wide grin, DC Chief Librarian Ginnie Cooper talked about her excitement surrounding the existing building’s demolition. “You wouldn’t think any librarian would celebrate that!”

/dynamos/anacostia/