The renovation of the new library building will be complete months before the Moundridge Public Library will be ready to use it. The building should be ready for use by the end of January, according to head librarian Betsy Davis, but the furniture is on backorder, so she’s looking at a spring move-in date, though she resists providing a prediction any more concisely than the three-month window. Davis said some of the furniture would arrive soon, but she expects the shelving to be the biggest holdup. The community room, one of the aspects of the new library that Davis is looking forward to the most, will be complete soon, but she didn’t know if they would try to use it before the rest of the library was open. … “With this grant [the ALA’s Libraries Transform Communities Grant], we were able to get portable cooktops and little toaster ovens and things like that, that we can actually have little cooking classes for our cooking for two initiatives that we learned about after we asked people what do they want,” Davis said.
Source: McPherson Weekly News
