DC Public Libraries (DCPL) and the Board of Library Trustees (BoLT) are hosting a community library design meeting on September 4, 2008.
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WHAT: Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Interim Library Community Meeting
WHEN: Thursday, September 4, 2008 6:30 - 8:30 pm
WHERE: Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Interim Library, 945 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
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This may be your last chance to help shape YOUR new Shaw library -- a library that will be around for the next 60+ years.
The Shaw Library Study Group hopes to maximize community input and asks for YOU and at least one friend to be there.
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It will be held at the Interim Shaw Library - 945 Rhode Island Avenue just adjacent to Shaw Junior HS.
The meeting starts at 6:30pm but District library advocates will be gathering at 6:00pm out front.
We hope you can join us.
~The Shaw Library Study Group (SLSG)
FMI, visit the DC Public Library Website.
Alex Padro, ANC Commissioner 2C01
and President of the Watha T. Daniel / Shaw Library Friends Group
In an email sent 9/3/08, Alex writes:
Please plan to attend the final design meeting for the new Watha T. Daniel/Shaw
Neighborhood Library on Thursday, September 4, 2008, at 6:30 PM at the interim
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library, 945 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, to
see the latest, and possibly final, designs. This will likely be the last
opportunity to advocate for any changes community residents would like to
see made to the new library's design.
Some have suggested that part of the landscaped area around the library should
be used as an outdoor reading room, when weather permits. The removal of the
green roof from the project has concerned many in the neighborhood. Others
have suggested that the current space being dedicated to a seating area for
the juvenile collection should be converted into a more flexible space that
could accommodate literacy classes and senior programs in addition to the
juvenile collection. And many continue to have concerns about the sight lines
on the first floor that currently make it difficult for staff at the circulation
desk to help monitor patron activity on that level.
While restoring glass as the principal material for the new building's facade
was a major victory, some of the refinements listed above could help make
the new library a more welcoming, safe, useful, and useable facility. Your
presence at the meeting could help convince DC Public Library officials that
these final tweaks are warranted and worthwhile.
So I hope you will make the effort to attend this meeting and offer your support
at this crucial stage in the development of the new library that will serve
our neighborhood for the next 30-50 years.
Alex
Alexander M. Padro
Commissioner, ANC 2C01
1519 8th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-3205
Voice: 202-518-3794
Email: PadroANC2C@aol.com
Website: www.members.aol.com/PadroANC2C