Brentwood, CA – A new property is being developed in the Internet real estate world, the website www.whereisourlibrary.com. The website’s landing page calls itself “A Grass Roots Movement” while featuring an artistic photograph of grassy, golden hills and oak trees just south of Brentwood.
“Residents of Brentwood, California, are beginning to wonder, where is our library?” the website asks, as it goes on to describe the lack of funding or planning for the replacement of the town’s library, demolished in 2009.
The website is not the responsibility of the Brentwood Library Foundation, the Friends of the Brentwood Library, the City, or any other known organization. Rather, the website lists mysterious “The Organizers” on the Contact page. A quick check of the Whois directory, which normally lists ownership of all internet sites, shows that ownership of the website is masked by one of the many services that provide anonymity to website owners. It shows only that the registration expires on June 4, 2016.
The website’s Main Menu offers visitors the ability to “Get a Free Bumper Sticker,” “Sign Our Petition,” “Get Info” and view “Things You Can Do” and a “Links” page.
“I think it’s wonderful,” said Bryan Scott, an activist on the Brentwood Library cause. “There has been spontaneous resident activity on this issue before, and I suspect this is yet another indication of the community’s support for the new library.”
Scott is a resident of Brentwood, a member of the Contra Costa County Library Commission and Vice President of the Brentwood Library Foundation.
The website’s landing page clearly states, presumably to the Brentwood City Council, “We Want to Know.”
Internet users can also sign the website’s petition, participate in a poll, and get a free bumper sticker at www.whereisourlibrary.com. For now the website’s ownership remains a mystery. However, email messages to the email address [email protected] do get answered, presumably by one of “The Organizers.”
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About the Brentwood Library Foundation
The Brentwood Library Foundation is a non-profit IRS 501c3 public benefit corporation formed in 2014. Its mission is to support the Brentwood Library’s programs and services through advocacy, fundraising, and by building relationships with others who share a passion for the Library’s work.
If you would like to contribute financially to the BLF to energize the effort to build a new library in Brentwood, send your check to Stephen Smith, Treasurer, BLF, care of the Brentwood Library, 104 Oak Street, Brentwood, CA 94513.
The Brentwood Library Foundation’s Facebook page is
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brentwood-Library-Foundation/1392588017681973
The Brentwood Library Foundation website is at http://www.brentwoodlibraryfoundation.org/
5 comments
WOW! Took website down.
Just checked, its still up.
The link worked when I Googled it.
Yes, the link is working.
The link works – please come and check it out. Help get our library built.
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