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Sarasota News Leader January 24, 2014 courses — from those in adult basic education to those that would enable students to pursue careers in such fields as automotive service technology, business technology, cosmetology, culinary arts, manufacturing and nursing. Page 34 THE LIBRARY VISION During her remarks at the convocation, Kalajian, the county libraries director, talked of her vision for the new North Port library. She likened the potential to what she saw in a recent visit to the Seminole Community During the Jan. 22 School Board meeting, Library at St. Petersburg College. That facility, Bowden pointed to those courses as "certain she said, "[has] drawn award-winning attenprograms [that] belong at every technical tion for its innovative merging of high-end technology access to digital information and center." traditional library collections and resources." "It really [would be] a scaled-down version As for the existing North Port Library, she of our main campus," he added of the North added, "We're at capacity or near capacity …" Port SCTI. THE FINANCIAL ASPECTS Further, as a branch of the primary SCTI, he noted, it would be immediately accredited, School Board member Shirley Brown and it would be able to offer financial aid. explained to her fellow local government A chart lists some of the site considerations for the location of a new Sarasota County Technical Institute in combination with a second Sarasota County library in North Port. Image courtesy School Board