The City Council, Community Services Department, Library Advisory Board and librarians must get together and focus their attention on how strong we can make our current facility because it is all we will have for quite a while. The limited amount of space needs to be made more usable, more user friendly. The library must become more selective in what it offers. We can't keep cramming every square foot full of materials. Library patrons need room to sit.
Space needs to be cleared for computer terminals.
That means library officials must decide what services are essential to the central library and focus on making what we have as good as possible. That will mean reducing the number of items on hand. And it probably means decentralizing library operations. Creative use will have to be made of branches. One is soon to open on the south side.