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ckdLast night I stopped in the temporary library at the Longfellow School building. I think it's now the library closest to home.
It's interesting. The collection is limited due to floor loading concerns, and all the public space is on the first floor of the building. All the stairwells, the elevator, etc are posted with big signs pointing this out, and the exits are all alarmed; the architectural differences between an elementary school (optimized for fast evacuation among other things) and a library (which needs access control so that books go out via the checkout desk) are fairly major.
The adaptation was done fairly well, though. (PDF map) The building is U-shaped, and the entrance and circulation desk are at one end of the U. The main hallway follows the U around: new books are just past the circulation desk, with the children's and YA rooms across the hall from that; reference and some non-fiction along the top of the U; and the rest of the accessible collection is in the "stacks". By "stacks" they mean "shelves in the gym".
I didn't do a really involved check to see what was and wasn't included in the subset of books from the main library, nor did I remember to ask if those not included would be requestable.
It's interesting. The collection is limited due to floor loading concerns, and all the public space is on the first floor of the building. All the stairwells, the elevator, etc are posted with big signs pointing this out, and the exits are all alarmed; the architectural differences between an elementary school (optimized for fast evacuation among other things) and a library (which needs access control so that books go out via the checkout desk) are fairly major.
The adaptation was done fairly well, though. (PDF map) The building is U-shaped, and the entrance and circulation desk are at one end of the U. The main hallway follows the U around: new books are just past the circulation desk, with the children's and YA rooms across the hall from that; reference and some non-fiction along the top of the U; and the rest of the accessible collection is in the "stacks". By "stacks" they mean "shelves in the gym".
I didn't do a really involved check to see what was and wasn't included in the subset of books from the main library, nor did I remember to ask if those not included would be requestable.
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Date: 2005-06-25 01:41 (UTC)Interestingly, Central Square Library is open on Saturdays this summer. Previously it was only open on Saturdays during the same timeframe that the main library was open on Sundays (September - May).