The library in Mount Dennis is shutting down on Saturday at 5pm and won't be opening again until some time in the first half of 2013.
The 60-year-old library, with its current collection of 45,000 items, was last renovated in 1982, when Moffat and Duncan architects designed an addition to bring it up to its current size of 11,350 square feet.
The new renovation, which Anne Bailey, director of branch libraries, calls "a complete renovation," will take at least 18 months, with a construction budget of $2.86 million and a complete budget of $4.3 million.
"There's a complete redesign of the interior of the library, with logical entrances and exits and a new layout of the collection, equipment, programming space and staff work areas," Bailey says. There will also be new landscaping, a new main entrance and greater accessibility for people with disabilities.
The project was designed by
G. Bruce Stratton Architects.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Anne Bailey
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