Published: 12/9/2022 8:30:05 PM
Modified: 12/9/2022 8:29:45 PM
GREENFIELD — Standing in what will eventually become a second-floor reading room dedicated to the artist Hale Johnson’s wife, Lorraine, Library Director Ellen Boyer said the city’s new library is shaping up to be “everything it was promised to be.”
“I’m not someone who can look at a plan. … I need to stand in a space to see what it’s going to feel like to me,” Boyer said. “And it feels amazing to me.”
The new library, located on Main Street, boasts 26,800 square feet over the current library’s 15,000 square feet. It will include two public meeting rooms available for use after library hours, a “low-tech makerspace” for adult crafts, a cafe-like setup near the front entrance with a vending machine managed by the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind,…
