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New books fill new library
By Carole Cloudwalker
This document was published online on Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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| Brad Corbin (above) moves books out of the now-closed former library Tuesday for transport to the new Park County Library. The grand opening for the new library near the rec center will be Oct. 4. (Photo by Ken Blackbird) |
Trucks are hauling thousands of books up the hill this week to the new public library.
Books, shelves and other items are being moved from the current library in downtown Cody up the hill to the Park County Complex. A public ceremony leading to the library's grand opening will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4. Pete Simpson will be the keynote speaker.
County library system director Frances Clymer says construction on the new $6.6 million project on Heart Mountain Street (the former Marathon Building) is now nearly complete, except for landscaping and some “cosmetic details,” including exterior sheathing of entrance columns.
“There also are some interior odds and ends” to be completed, such as connections for computer terminals, Clymer said, along with new furniture that's arriving this week.
Project funding is in three shares of $2.2 million each from the capital facilities tax, a state grant and county funds.
A professional library moving firm, Carney-McNicholas, Inc, of Lorain, Ohio, is handling the move.
Shelving for children's books already had been installed in the new library, so children's materials were an easier part of the process.
Children's Librarian Holly Baker said 23,000 volumes in her department, including young adults' books, will be moved directly onto new shelving. A young adult librarian will be on board sometime this winter to further develop programming in that section of the library.
Other books from the Cody library were packed and set aside while their shelving was dismantled, transported and set up again in the new space.
Something for children's department patrons to look forward to, Baker added, are 200 new books to welcome readers to the new library.
In addition, she has been saving funds provided by the Legislature so there would be money to purchase many more new volumes.
Thus, young re aders can check out the latest in the Amelia Bedelia series, Laura Numeroff's, “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake,” or tales of Anansi the Spider in, “Anansi's Party Time.”
Older children can find new volumes including Karen Hesse's “Brooklyn Bridge” under historical fiction, and Gordon Korman's “The Juvie Three” as well as J.A. Barron's “Merlin's Dragon.”
Children's library staff members were busy “packing things that are not books” last week, including the maze of pipe cleaners, glue sticks, egg cartons, paint and costumes that all are used in children's department programs and craft sessions.
Cody librarian Marge Buchholz said the adult library will feature some 200 new volumes, CDs and DVDs in time for the grand opening.
Titles such as, “Hot, Flat and Crowded,” by Thomas Friedman and, “Blue Death: Disease, Disaster and the Water We Drink,” by Robert Morris will wait in the nonfiction section.
New DVDs include a horse training work, “In a Whisper,” as well as children's viewing such as, “Hannah Montana's adventures in, “Best of Both Worlds Concert.”
In addition to vastly more elbow room, the new library will feature a cafe that eventually is expected to be the shared responsibility of the library and Northwest College's culinary program, Clymer said. College students upstairs and rec center users next door are also expected to use the cafe.
Initially, the cafe will offer the ambience of a Barnes and Noble book store, with room to take up a volume and sit browsing through it while sipping coffee, tea or a soft drink and munching biscotti, muffins or scones, “traditional coffee shop types of foods,” Clymer said.
Once the NWC program gets under way, she hopes the cafe also will offer light lunch items like soups and sandwiches.
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