Schwarzenegger Movie Prevents
Vancouver Library Shutdown
Production of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest film, The Sixth Day, will save Vancouver (B.C.) Public Library from shutting down for one week this fall. Funds paid to shoot several scenes at the downtown central library will cover an approximate $150,000 budget shortfall that would have closed the city’s 21 libraries for a week as in 1999 and 1997, Canada’s National Post reported February 5.
“Without this film, we would still be closed in August,” said library spokesman Eric Smith. However, warned library spokeswoman Jennifer Young-Roy, “we’re still going to have to shut down in 2001.”
Meanwhile, the movie’s production forced the temporary closing of another library at nearby Simon Fraser University January 31. Exhaust fumes from the set of a scene being filmed on the Burnaby, British Columbia, campus leaked to the library, causing it to close early that evening, according to February 8 edition of the school’s newspaper, the Peak.
University Librarian Lynn Copeland said the school would be compensated for the disruption and that those funds will be put toward a service to benefit students.
Posted February 14, 2000.
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