From: Library Committee

                               To: Long Range Planning Team

                                     Date: 28 April 2008

Our current library facility is inadequate to handle the vision the committee sees for our new library. This vision includes having sufficient space for our collection; for a conference area; for a preschool class to meet in the library; for storage for books to be processed and supplies; for more than one computer; for comfortable seating; and for book checkout.

To meet these services, we need a multi-use facility of two connected rooms or one larger room that can be subdivided with a pull divider. The area needs to be at least three times its current size. Realistically, it needs to be four or five times its current size. Also the library needs a more convenient and visible location in our new facility. The room or rooms would have:

• Library shelving, tall for adult section, short for children section
• A conference table and chairs for 6 to 8 for small group meetings or small Sunday school class
• Table with computers
• Room for story time for a class of children
• Leisure reading area with a couch and chairs
• A checkout desk
• A storage work area of built-in cabinets that lock with countertop or a separate librarian’s office

These suggestions do not include space for housing audiovisual equipment, curriculum materials currently housed in Dell’s office, or a church gift shop (an idea some people have expressed).

Library Committee members

Janel Salmen

Kristi Browning

Willie Crawford

Tina Sanders