Library Planning Committee
August 8, 2001

Basics to Share with Others:
Our vision is to have a showpiece community center, a focal point the community can be proud of for many years. In that center, the library will improve and expand upon our current services:

• providing materials on current topics and titles
• offering basic literacy services
• coordinating great family and children’s services
• expanding knowledge of information literacy.

We estimate we’ll need about 12,000 square feet to provide those services well. We need separate areas for:

• circulating materials
• housing books, CD’s, videos, magazines, and other library materials
• confidential classroom or tutoring space
• research computers, possibly in cubicles
• large staff work areas
• director’s office
• large storage area
• lockable employee personal storage (lockers)

We can share common areas for:

• bathrooms, including family bathrooms
• meeting rooms, including both large (auditorium) and small (conference table) sizes
• computer labs
• classrooms for Adult Learning Center
• geneology resources
• display cases
• snack area
• children’s play area
• soundproofed nursery
• interpreters
• parking
• possibly office areas on a second floor