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- To obtain your Gold Coast library card, please bring to the library a Driver's License or Non-Driver NY State ID and one of the following: Library Board of Trustees A governing board of nine trustees oversees the Gold Coast Public Library District. Trustees serve without pay and are residents of the District elected to three-year terms by fellow residents. Staggered terms provide continuity on the Board with three trustee positions expiring each year. Elections take place in early September. History of the Library In 1997, as Girl Scout Troop #61 was working on the My Community badge, one of the scouts, Kristalynn Kempton, asked her mother, Why doesn't our community have a library? That was the start of what was to become the Gold Coast Public Library District. The scouts were joined by many of their classmates at Glen Head School, and together they formed the GALS ( Get A Library Soon ) committee. The youngsters wanted to know how the community felt about establishing a library. They distributed flyers and set out petitions in local stores. They compiled a listing of interested residents. The youngsters met with local officials to learn how a community went about establishing a library. The movement grew with support from students and parents at other North Shore schools. Fredda Klopfer, then principal of Glen Head School, organized an adult committee composed of the Girl Scout leaders involved in the project, Amy Kempton and Rosemarie Ryba, and two parents who supported the project, Marilyn Genoa and Fran Sciarrino. This committee, later joined by Miles Sibell and Rhonda Veros, became the North Shore Citizens Committee for Library Service, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. The Committee focused on the legal and procedural aspects of establishing a library district. The organization worked diligently for over four years with neighboring libraries, the Nassau Library System and the New York State Department of Library Development. Further impetus to their work was provided by a change in New York State law when the Board of Regents passed Regulation 90.3 that prohibited public libraries from selling library cards as of January 1, 2000. Residents could no longer purchase library cards from neighboring libraries. Library services for the community could only be obtained through public funding. In 2000, State Senator Carl Marcellino and Assemblyman David Sidikman introduced legislation that allowed a referendum in which residents would decide the issue of a tax supported library district. In March 2000, the Citizens Committee presented a town meeting to introduce the proposed library district to residents. Over 400 residents attended to hear and question representatives from the Nassau Library System and the New York State Department of Library Development. In August 2000, Governor George Pataki signed Bill #S6929A into law, authorizing the referendum. On December 4, 2001, residents overwhelmingly voted to establish the library district, with an $800, 000 budget. Voters elected nine trustees- Nancy Benchimol, Patrice Benneward, Patricia Daley, Kevin Glassman, Amy Kempton, Barbara Palermo, Stephen Muth, Rosemarie Ryba, and Miles Sibell. The Gold Coast Public Library District was born! Library opened for business on August 1, 2005 at 50 Railroad Avenue in Glen Head, in the remodeled building formerly known as 'Norway Hall.' Genellen McGrath was appointed as the first Library Director on April 5, 2006.
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Phone: (516) 759-1424
Fax: (516) 759-8308
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- Glen Head
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http://www.goldcoastlibrary.org
https://www.goldcoastlibrary.org/budget/annual-budget-vote-and-trustee-election
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Reviews
06/30/2013
That Library have too many staff members for such small library doing little or nothing.
On one Saturday there were. Only 2 clients and about seven staff members sitting and chatting.
I am half spanish and I was kicked ot bc a white guy did not like that a spanish and her kids were there. The white personnel did not care that that guy was mentally disturbed, coursing and banging the keyboard and mouse, their chatting was more important and they just simply told us to leave.
Do not contribute to that Library.
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Phone: (516) 759-8300
Address: 50 Railroad Ave, Glen Head, NY 11545
Website: http://www.goldcoastlibrary.org
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