The Ishimura's job was to mine other planets for their most rare and most valuable resources to take them back to Earth. The USG Ishimura was a ship designed for the new resource-gathering practice: planetcracking. At a time of near-desperation, the CEC engineered the ship that would eventually save all of humanity: the USG Ishimura. That is where the Concordance Extraction Corporation came in. The remaining humans realized that the only way to gain the resources to survive would be to search new planets for resources.
Earth has gone through an extinction-level event, caused by rapacious and unsustainable use of resources.
In addition to the more traditional programs, the Headquarters Branch coordinates the system-wide Home Bound Delivery Program, which matches patrons who are permanently or temporarily homebound with volunteers who select and deliver library materials.Dead Space is set in 2508. The branch offers a full monthly schedule of computer instruction classes, from an introductory mouse class to PowerPoint and intermediate Excel training, as well as monthly adult programming, book discussions and children’s activities, all of which are listed in our monthly “ Calendar of Events” and “Computer Instruction Brochure” and are free of charge. Numerous book displays, bookmarks, newsletters and other handouts serve to inform and to complement our seasonal decorations, creating an atmosphere of warmth and welcome amidst a very busy building!ĭuring our most recent building expansion, which was completed in 1997, the branch gained an additional 7,000 square feet of library space and now boasts eight conference rooms for community and non-profit use, Internet, word processing, Publisher, Excel and PowerPoint access from every public terminal, extensive print and electronic business reference sources, including Lexis-Nexis and a room dedicated to New Jersey materials that also houses key genealogical research resources and a sixteen PC Computer Instruction lab. If you haven’t visited lately, you may not recognize us!įar from its humble beginnings as a one room library behind the Lawrence Shopping Center, the Lawrence Headquarters Branch now stands at the helm of the Mercer County Library System, housing a variety of print, electronic and audiovisual materials, in addition to the Lawrence Historical Collection and the Library Administrative Offices.
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