The San Jose, California, city council unanimously approved plans May 21 to situate a $171-million new main for San Jose Public Library on the downtown campus of San Jose State University. The facility would have two main entrances—one opening to the street and one to the campus.
"I really do think together we can be better than the sum of the parts," SJSU President Robert Caret told council members, according to a May 22 San Jose Mercury News story.
The non-binding memorandum of agreement between city and university officials concludes a 14-month study into the proposal's feasibility and hinges on the California legislature placing a $101-million higher-education bond issue on the November ballot. Providing the bond passes, the San Jose Redevelopment Agency will supply the remaining $70 million. Also needed are the negotiation of governance agreements between the parties.
Posted June 1, 1998.