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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014
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Expansion
Forks branch is at or above
capacity.
And with the rapidly growing
population in south Forsyth, an
expansion could quell more
immediate needs of library
goers.
“The concentration of card
holders is in the Sharon Forks
area,” Barfield said. “With four
libraries now, it takes about
one-third of the [total] use.”
Budget scenarios prioritized
technology needs, which may
be complicated during an
expansion and renovation,
including a potential raised
floor for electrical drops and
building the capacity for a
hotspot for meeting rooms and
public devices.
Budgets and expansion blue
prints remain in the early stag
es, as bids for architects and
engineers haven’t gone out.
Still, the initial talks give the
library administration a starting
point to give to an architect,
said Anna Lyle, assistant direc
tor for support services.
If the state grant does not
come through, a tentative bud
get of $4.6 million would allow
for a 9,000 square-foot expan
sion, according to McDaniel.
But if the library system
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receives the grant, the expan
sion could increase to 12,000
square feet —the existing
structure is 20,500 square feet
— to be completed with an
approximate $5.4 million in
funding.
This would include the grant
and $1.7 million in impact fees
from the 2011 voter-approved
extension of the 1-cent sales
tax. About $1.5 million has
been collected.
Theoretically, Lyle said, the
state grant could be used
toward the Sharon Forks expan
sion while the impact fees
could be set aside to buy land.
Sharon Forks has the largest
circulation based on checkout
rates of libraries in the state,
and collection checkout rates
are high enough to show they
are “buying the right things,”
said Kristin Morrissey, library
board secretary and treasurer.
Based on a snapshot from the
last business day of September,
Sharon Forks had the highest
checkout rates of all four local
branches in nearly every cate
gory.
Early readers were at 68 per
cent, easy board books reached
77 percent, and juvenile graph
ic novels were at 61 percent,
said Linda Kelly, assistant
director for materials.
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are based on books currently
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Lynn Eason reads a book at her desk in the Friends Book Store located inside of the
Sharon Forks Library, which will be expanded soon.
the total collection, in the 30
percentiles are good numbers,
“1 just look at these reports and
cannot believe it sometimes,”
Kelly said.
Those numbers clearly show
the need to expand the juvenile
area, said Stephen Kight, the
system’s assistant director for
public services. So many fami
lies use the library, the aisles
‘and tables get too crowded with
strollers and groups of people.
Kight said they also need a
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larger space for progranis, so
the meeting room would be
expanded.
The adult area would also be
enlarged, he said, to combine
the fiction and nonfiction sec
tions into one large room, with
shelved collections on the sides
and an open space with tables
and chairs in the middle.
Eight study rooms would be
added, where people can gather
to talk in a more private setting
or bring personal devices and
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use a quieter space.
Entrances into the library
would be consolidated into one
door on the side, which is
where both the external and
internal book drop would be
located.
Expansions to the juvenile
and adult areas could come off
the back of the building, keep
ing the front facade intact and
allowing an expansion of park
ing spaces from 143 to 175.