GRANBY — The town’s first library is closing its doors until the spring as it is transformed into a maker’s space, an effort to bring back more community members to the building.
The Frederick H. Cossitt Library in North Granby opened in 1891, and since then has been a well-known landmark to longtime residents in town. However, it has seen a substantial decrease in visitors over the years, said Amber Wyzik, director of Library Services, requiring library staff to brainstorm how to repurpose it into a useful resource and bring the community together again, instead of closing down altogether.
“There wasn’t a lot of patronage here. There wasn’t a big circulation,” Wyzik said. “But there is a lot of history here. So we wanted to do something that would would bring people back to this space.”
That’s what led to conversations about a maker’s space, which is…
