The Seattle Public Library invites community members to share their "hopes and dreams" for the expanded Douglass-Truth Library from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1 at the Douglass-Truth Library, 2300 E. Yesler Way, meeting room. For more information, call Frank Coulter, Library project manager, at (206) 615-1621.
The meeting will give residents an opportunity to describe their vision for the new spaces within the library, and discuss preferences in services and programs, collections, and artwork. Members of the Seattle Public Library board of trustees and the Library's Capital Program Office, and designers from Schacht/Aslani Architects will be present to hear from residents and to answer questions about the project.
The 8,008-square-foot Douglass-Truth Library opened in 1914. Though the library was upgraded in 1986, it is too small to serve the neighborhood or to adequately house the library's growing African-American Collection. The expanded library will be 15,000 square feet.
The $3.5 million expansion project will feature an updated collection of 66,700 books and materials, more space for the African-American Collection, a new children's area, more seating, computers and parking, larger and more efficient staff work areas, upgraded electrical, mechanical and ventilation systems, and energy efficient windows. The expansion is scheduled to be finished in 2003.
The project is part of the $196.4 million "Libraries for All" bond measure that Seattle voters passed in 1998. The plan calls for improving or replacing all 22 branch libraries, building five new branches and building a new central library. For more information about Libraries for All, visit the Library's Web site at www.spl.org and select "Libraries for All capital projects."
(For more information, call Caroline Young Ullmann, communications assistant, at 206-615-1627.)
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