“We came from a 1909 two-story building, and it often broke our hearts when people would come in in a wheelchair, for example, or a walker. Our children’s area was upstairs,” Hauan mentioned. “To have those same patrons now coming into our new one-story library with beautiful spaces and accessibility is really impressive.”
She mentioned the Woodland Care Middle, an assisted-living facility, introduced its residents to the brand new library for the primary time. They expressed their pleasure concerning the accessibility.
The library hosts a spread of actions, from household storytimes and filmmaking lessons to check periods and enterprise conferences.
Hauan mentioned the Tuesday household storytime periods have exploded, with about 40 folks attending in the neighborhood room. It’s focused towards households with kids 5 and youthful.
The neighborhood room has seating for 60 folks and shows native artwork on the partitions. Extra artwork will be discovered within the kids’s space with Phonic Bloom, a ceiling sculpture made out of e-book pages. Washington State College Vancouver digital media college students developed an augmented actuality app related to the sculpture. Early subsequent yr, library-goers can digitally work together with the artwork piece and study extra about phonetic sounds.
Within the spring, look out for an abundance of tulips to bloom. FVRLibraries Govt Director Jennifer Giltrop mentioned Holland America Bulb Farms donated 2,000 tulip bulbs to plant across the library.
When the climate warms up, the Woodland Group Library will host outside actions, equivalent to video games, story walks, and performers within the courtyard space and on strolling trails.
“A modern-day library is about books, but it’s so much more than the books. It’s about all the different spaces for the different age groups. It’s about a place for the community to come together and collaborate and learn together,” Giltrop mentioned. “I think that we’re really just scratching the surface of what will be possible with this new library.”