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Library renovations overview
Main entrance
Stairs/single-user bathrooms
Stairs/single-user bathrooms
55-seat planetarium
Central self-serve station
Dedicated teen area
Community meeting room
Storage
Bridge
2,500-square-foot exhibit space
Elevators
Staff area
1st floor
2nd floor
Dedicated adult areas, including the local history room
Dedicated youth area
Study rooms
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Stephanie Harrison, a librarian at the location, said that existing permanent fixtures and restricting room layouts don’t align with how patrons use the library. “It will be so nice to have all the areas designed for the volume of patrons we see and how they are using the spaces instead of an outdated model of how libraries are supposed to work,” Harrison said of the project in an email. The project will also update technology throughout the library, expand public meeting spaces, and improve the flow between indoor and outdoor spaces at the library, Smith said.
very positive way,” Smith said. “We see thousands of people a month. ... We have the opportunity to showcase a positive return on their tax investment.” The roughly 33,000-square-foot facility will only grow by 670 square feet in the renovation process, with most changes happening internally to the building. Staff at the library have worked to optimize the layout of library materials and services building for years, but the floor plan of the two-story building, which has multiple wings branching off of a central lobby, has been challenging for staff members, Smith said.
The renovation project will add a planetarium, expand gathering spaces and create dedicated spaces for the library’s collection of youth, teen and adult materials. The library, which has been in operation for more than 20 years, has outgrown its current design and the comprehensive renovation project is aimed at updating the library so it can meet the future needs of the community, including serving patrons of all ages. “Our goal is when we’re done and [patrons] walk in, that their jaws drop and they say, ‘Oh, that’s where my tax money went,’ and they mean it in a
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