GOALS
- Provide a safe, welcoming center
- Emphasis on reading, recreation, and learning
- Include neighbors of all ages in planning
ROOMS/SPACES/AREAS FOR
- Library
- Collection: 12,000 volumes
- Focus on children/youth
- Current best sellers and paperbacks for adults
- Multilingual dictionaries & periodicals
- Books with tapes
- "Cozy cans," reading lofts, fun spaces
- Computer Lab
- Accessible during off hours (when library is closed)
- Moveable computers/tables with floor plugs
- Research new technology- like infrared linked laptops (article in Instruction
Magazine)
- AOL grants for training
- DSL/Broadband?
- Small Study Rooms
- Outlets/data ports, etc. for computers
- Moveable walls/partitions
- Mini kitchen
- Community Meeting Rooms
- Connected to mini-kitchen; accessible to staff
- Stovetop island
- Lots of outlets for electric plug-ins
- Refrigerator space (20 cubic ft.)
- Storage (locking)
- P.A. system
- Rooms for Parks and Recreation Programs
- Bike Club class/small work station
- Chess club
- Games and arts & crafts from different countries, for all ages
- Scrapbooking
- Create books
- Medicare classes
- Tobacco-Free Ways, Full Court Press
- Active, physical games
- Board games
- Jewelry classes
- Quilting, needlework classes
- Miscellaneous
- Bigscreen - overhead projector
- Trades classes- intro to graphics accounting, computer applications
- Intro to business
- Writing programs for computers
- Website classes
- Optics intro
- Genealogy
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OUTSIDE THE BUILDING
- Multipurpose play furniture
- Sidewalk that’s hopscotch
- Public art as play objects
- Leading edge Perma-culture techniques
- Demonstration site?
- How the building looks
- Hacienda-Territorial
- Sculptures: giant tortoise/gila monster/javelina
- Public art as play equipment
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