For its 20th anniversary this year, the Spring Lake District Library is getting a refresh that will add more meeting rooms, a podcast studio, a place for teens to hang out, young children to get creative, and a sensory quiet room.
The facelift reflects how the 35,000-square-foot library is adapting to serve the changing needs of the community in a post-COVID world.
“We’re definitely thinking outside of that book box. What else does our community need that we can provide?” says Director Maggie McKeithan, who has been at the library since 2019.
“There are so many ways that we can access resources now, and our purpose is to really connect people with resources. Sometimes that’s books, and sometimes that’s community.”
The goal is for the library to be “a place where you can meet up with people,” she says. “You can come to engage in programs to learn things. It’s sort of the…
