Library Renovation Of YA Area Enters Final Phase

Pages (left to right) Marybrett Fedele, Colleen Spain, Alexandra Woehr, and Nicole Matteini begin to shelve books in the newly renovated and enlarged Young Adult area at the Garden City Library.

The Garden City Public Library's expansion and renovation of the Young Adult is nearing completion. Throughout the holiday week, workers put the finishing touches on the library's entrance and lobby. The Young Adult collection was moved to the newly renovated and enlarged area located along the Seventh Street side of the building. Carpet and shelving were also installed in the periodical/reading room. Both the Young Adult area and the reading room await the arrival of seating and other furnishings.

The Library's reconstruction project consists of renovating the lobby, enlarging the Young Adult department, refurbishing the adult lounge into a periodical/reading room, and creating a larger quiet study area. The renovation also includes the conversion of a storage area on the lower level of the library into an audio-visual room and a computer lab with more than 20 Internet workstations. Work on the lower level computer and media center is also drawing to a close.

Rene Delagado, a painter from Lipsky Enterprises, puts the finishing touches on the entrance to the new Young Adult area at the Garden City Library. A wooden wall with colored glass blocks and built in book shelves separates the young adult collection from the rest of the library.

The Garden City Public Library opened on May 4, 1952 in its original location in a white clapboard house at the end of Seventh Street. The library's original book collection was less than 10,000 volumes. The library moved to the present building in 1973. Today the library has over 160,000 holdings.