{"id":295568,"date":"2026-09-28T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295568\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:10:09","slug":"albright-college-officially-opens-renovated-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295568\/","title":{"rendered":"Albright College officially opens renovated library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albright College leaders celebrated the grand opening of the newly renovated campus library Saturday as part of Homecoming Family Weekend festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2025\/05\/02\/construction-started-on-library-renovations-at-albright-college\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gingrich Library<\/a>, the building is now called the Joyce Family Foundation Learning Commons. It houses a student support and disability center, a writing and tutoring center, an expanded cultural center and access to technology, new conference space and a cafe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Visitors tour the circulation area in the Joyce Family Foundation Learning Commons at Albright College on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"307\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/REG-L-AlbrightLibrary1576.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"7933029\" \/>Visitors tour the circulation area in the Joyce Family Foundation Learning Commons at Albright College on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The Patty Parker Molnar Center for Writing Excellence inside the Joyce Family Foundation Learning Commons. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"333\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/REG-L-AlbrightLibrary1574.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"7933030\" \/>The Patty Parker Molnar Center for Writing Excellence inside the Joyce Family Foundation Learning Commons. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albright College leaders celebrated the grand opening of the newly renovated campus library Saturday as part of Homecoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,227,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-295568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-education","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}