IN BRIEF : Toyota Gives Million to Ky. Library

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. donated $1 million to the University of Kentucky library system, the largest cash gift ever received by the system.

Fujio Cho, president of Toyota’s automobile plant in Georgetown, Ky., announced the gift at a news conference Thursday in the school’s Margaret I. King Library.

“Education is the cornerstone for the future economic development in Kentucky,” he said. “Toyota is interested in contributing to the improvement of the quality of education in this state.”

Toyota Motor Manufacturing U.S.A. is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s third-largest automobile manufacturer. The company says it has invested $1.1 billion to build the automobile-manufacturing complex in Georgetown, which will employ 3,500 people and make 200,000 Camry sedans a year at full production.