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Building Project:

We are now open!  Come see our new building!

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Library Board Meetings: 

LaGrange County Public Library 
3rd Wednesday of each month
5:30 p.m.
The board of trustees will hold their regular meeting.
The public is always welcome.

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Photographs (Click on any photograph to enlarge it.)

The Big Move, March 2010:

Dale Waltz: The artist and her murals, one last time:

The Auction, 3/27/2010:

After the Auction:

The Community Room	How do we get into the Children's Room?	The Reference Room
1917 Fire Station / Bookmobile Garage & Storage	Closing the Alley	1967 Fire Station
How do you get a huge wall safe out of  the second-floor Cataloging Dept.?	You need a forklift...	...and a big hole in the floor.

Construction:

4/14/2010	4/14/2010	4/14/2010
Salvaging bricks for the Carnegie library remodel 4/26/2010	4/27/2010	4/27/2010
The 1967 fire station is demolished. 4/30/2010	4/30/2010 It's a real skylight now!	4/30/2010 What lies behind the nonfiction section? The back wall of the old Carnegie library!
5/3/2010	Removing the 1917 capstone  from the old Town Hall 5/3/2010	5/3/2010
Removing the Town Hall sign block 5/5/2010	The east side of the old Carnegie library begins to reappear. 5/6/2010	Basement hallway of the old Carnegie library 5/6/2010
Demolishing the 1917 town hall/fire station 6/10/2010	I Spy: The tree murals in the Children's Dept. 6/10/2010	6/10/2010
6/10/2010	Demolishing the 1976 addition 6/14/2010	Salvaging the ceiling beams from Nonfiction 6/14/2010
There's a hydraulic shovel in our Community Room! 6/14/2010	I Spy: The Nonfiction emergency exit door frame (Hint:  It's blue) 6/14/2010	That's the Community Room door 6/14/2010
Building a new foundation 7/20/2010	8/4/2010	Elevator shaft 8/4/2010
8/12/2010	8/12/2010	8/12/2010
11/2/2010	11/2/2010	11/3/2010
11/3/2010	11/3/2010	11/3/2010
11/3/2010	11/5/2010	11/5/2010
11/15/2010	11/16/2010	11/12/2010
11/17/2010	11/24/2010	12/3/2010
Looking out the bookmobile garage doors 12/13/2010	The Adult Department fireplace 1/13/2011	Looking from the new addition,  through the back wall of the original library,  and out the old front door. 1/13/2011
The new front door 1/13/2011	Board members tour the new library 1/13/2011	Board meeting 1/19/2011
The new front desk 3/29/2011	The Adult Department fireplace 3/29/2011	The Young Adult Department 3/29/2011
The new Children's Department desk 3/29/2011	The new Cataloging Department (in the old Carnegie basement) 3/29/2011	Reversing the old front desk in the original Carnegie library 3/29/2011

Moving In:

Packing for the move back 5/21/2011	Gosh, there's a lot to pack 5/21/2011	Staff hard at work 5/24/2011
Books to the ceiling, 5/26/2011	Books to the sky, 5/26/2011	My pile of books Is a mile high! 5/27/2011
The piles keep growing... 6/2/2011	And the shelves get emptier... 6/2/2011	And emptier. 6/2/2011
Moving In! 6/11/2011	Moving In! 6/11/2011	Moving In! 6/11/2011
Unpacking 7/1/2011	Unpacking 7/1/2011	Unpacking 7/1/2011
Open House 7/30/2011	Guitarist Erv Troyer Open House 7/30/2011	Children's Author Mandy Mickem Open House 7/30/2011
Keybordists Carol Roberts & Donna Knight Open House 7/30/2011	Dulcimer Band, The Ellis Family Open House 7/30/2011	Open House 7/30/2011

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Contractor:

March 17, 2010:  The library board hired Shawnee Construction of Ft. Wayne with all 10 alternates for $4,557,770 as the General Contractor.

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10/20/2009 Floorplans:  (Click on the images to view as .pdf files.)
 

Basement Level:

First Floor:

Second Floor:

4/15/2009 Library Board Resolution:

Resolution Making a Preliminary Determination to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of  Providing Funds to be Used for the Acquisition, Construction, Extension, Alteration, Improvement, Remodeling, and Equiping of an Addition to and Renovation of the LaGrange County Public Library and the Incidental Expenses Necessary to be Incurred in Connection Therewith and on Account of the Issuance of the Bonds Therefor.

4/13/2009 County Council Resolution:

A Resolution of the County Council of the County of LaGrange, Indiana, Approving the Issuance by the LaGrange County Public Library of General Obligation Bonds that Are Payable in Whole or in Part from Property Taxes

March 3, 4 & 5, 2009:

Public meetings were held at the three area high schools concerning the LaGrange building project. 
(Click on any image to view it full-size.)

 

2/19/2009 Press Release:

Library Board Reaches Consensus on Reduced Project Cost