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Urban Information Centers to Open in LocalLibraries; to Expand Evening, Saturday HoursA dramatic new program to open a network of one-stop, full-service neighborhood information centers throughout Brooklyn is now underway, Borough President Sebastian Leone announced Monday at Borough Hall.The pioneering program will put a Citizens%u2019 Urban Information Center (cuic) into each of the 55 branches of the Brooklyn Public Library, staffed by trained specialists who will provide the public with free information on the complete range of individual and community services available from the city, state and federal governments, and from private voluntary agencies.The new $4.5 million program is a project of the Brooklyn Public Library and the Administration and Management Research Association of the City of New York, Inc., a non-profit research corporation. Funds come from the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the National Council on Library Resources.The details of the most advanced public-information concept in the Borough%u2019s history were outlined by Leone; Kenneth Duchac, Director of the Brooklyn Public Library and Mrs. Beatrice Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of CUIC, at the office.%u201c There is no segment of our society that cannot benefit from the new service,%u201d Leone continued. %u201c Everyone, veterans, students, senior citizens, homeowners, artists and writers, etc. must be kept informed of services now available,available in the various governand to be made future, by the mental branches.%u201c When these centers open early next year, any Brooklyn resident will be able to walk into his local neighborhood library and find out how and where to get help to solve his individual or neighborhood problem,%u201d said Borough President Leone. %u201c It%u2019s a first for Brooklyn and a first for the nation, too.%u201dOne important dividend of the new program, the Borough President said, is that Saturday and evening hours of most library branches will be expanded in order to make this program and others offered by the Brooklyn Public Library more accessible to the public. He said there would be extra evening hours at the Brooklyn heights, Carroll G ardens, Red Hook and Walt Whitman (Fort Greene) branches. In addition, the Pacific, Whitman and Red Hook branches will be open Saturdays for the first time, and the Carroll Gardens branch will be open a full day on Saturdays.%u201c The kind of information the Centers will provide is not available at any one location now,%u201d said Kenneth Duchac, director of the Brooklyn Public Library. %u201c Governm ent and private agencies provide a host of services and benefits for people and neighborhood groups, but many go unused because people don%u2019t know what they are, or where to go to find out about them. What will happen here is that in one place, aperson can find out about any kind of government or private programwhat it is, who is eligible and the nearest location to get assistance.%u201dHe indicated that if this two-year program is successful, city, state and federal officials are likely to expand it to all 181 branch libraries in the five boroughs of New York.%u201c We may not be able to solve every person%u2019s problem at these Centers,%u201d said the Borough President, %u201c But we will be able to tell a person where to go to get help, what kind of assistance to expect, and what papers, information or credentials are required by that agency or office in order to get the help.%u201dBeatrice Fitzpatrick, director of the CUIC program, said the recruiting and training of the 110 Community Information Specialists who will staff the 55 Centers is expected to begin in a few months and that the first centers would open early in 1975.Duchac of the Library said that the Centers will be an asset to community groups and public officials, who can find out about neighborhood services and resources offered by government and private agencies for their communities. %u201c We want to work with community groups and public officials to get their help in identifying local information needs, and their input on services and resources offered right in the neighborhood. We also need their help in letting people know about our facilities,%u201d he said.Beatrice Fitzpatrick, Director of Citizen%u2019s Urban InformationCenter [CUIC] and Borough President Sebastian Leone reviewlibrary system map with Kenneth Duchac, Director of theBrooklyn Public Library. 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