By William Hamilton
PBN Staff Writer
DARTMOUTH – Rockland Trust Co. has donated $50,000 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to support the creation of the Rockland Trust Cyber Café in the expanded Claire T. Carney Library on campus.
The Carney Library project is slated for completion in the fall of 2010. In addition to the library, with its collections of books, periodicals and other information, the new facility will contain a lecture venue for guest speakers and university receptions; a campus gallery; and the Rockland Trust Cyber Café, a technology-equipped campus meeting spot.
“We are grateful for the generous support of Rockland Trust,” said UMass-Dartmouth Chancellor Jean F. MacCormack. “[The] donation will help us transform the library – the intellectual heart of the university – into a modern hub of knowledge creation, dissemination and interaction.”
Rockland Trust is “committed to strengthening the communities in which we work and live,” Jane Lundquist, the bank’s executive vice president of retail banking and corporate marketing, said in a statement. “We are proud to assist the university in creating a vibrant, attractive, interactive learning space for the community.”
Rockland Trust Co., a $2.8 billion community bank serving southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod, is the sole bank subsidiary of Independent Bank Corp. (Nasdaq: INDB). Additional information is available at www.RocklandTrust.com.
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