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Philadelphia unveils school 'cybrary': a $5.4 million state-of-the-art media center wows the City Of Brotherly Love.(slj news)

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| July 01, 2005 | Oatman, Eric | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Students returning this fall to Philadelphia's academically elite, ethnically diverse Central High School will be welcomed by the city's first "cybrarian," Tina Weinraub. Weinraub runs what may be the nation's most opulent school media center, a $5.4 million state-of-the-art facility paid for entirely by loyal Central alumni. "It's like heaven," she says.

The two-story, three-level pleasure dome for young scholars opened on May 24. Its name may be the longest ever for a media center: the Dr. William M. King Communications, Media, and Research Center at the Barnwell Library. Barnwell boasts 70 desktop computers, 70 wireless laptops, seven wireless printers, and …

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