{"id":518099,"date":"2016-07-28T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=518099"},"modified":"2016-07-29T15:53:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T20:53:04","slug":"library-re-opening-and-dedication-at-kilgore-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=518099","title":{"rendered":"Library Re-Opening and Dedication at Kilgore College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/Kilgore_College1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/Kilgore_College1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kilgore_College\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-420433\" \/><\/a>KILGORE &#8211; Kilgore College held a public ceremony Thursday to officially re-open the Randolph C. Watson Library and dedicate the new Mike Miller Plaza. Built in in 1967, the library underwent a $2 million redesign and renovation over the last year. The bottom floor of the library now has computer pods, lounge areas with new furniture and a coffee shop. Upstairs now contains the traditional book area with large glassed-in rooms for group study and two large computer labs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In July of last year, school trustees approved roughly $1 million to construct a park area in the central portion of campus where the Martha Pfaff Ivan Liberal Arts Building was located prior to demolition in 2014. The Mike Miller Plaza features a star design in the center of campus and a new plant garden located on the west side of the new park. Money for the plaza and garden was donated by Mike Miller upon his death in 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8211; Kilgore College held a public ceremony Thursday to officially re-open the Randolph C. Watson Library and dedicate the new Mike Miller Plaza. Built in in 1967, the library underwent a $2 million redesign and renovation over the last year. The bottom floor of the library now has computer pods, lounge areas with new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=518099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library Re-Opening and Dedication at Kilgore College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":453554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 10:22:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518100,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518099\/revisions\/518100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/453554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}