GRAND OPENING OF NEW SILVER SPRING LIBRARY
Montgomery County Maryland sent this bulletin at 06/18/2015 10:55 AM EDT
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Contact: Bonnie Ayers; 240-777-6507;301-325-5878; bonnie.ayers@montgomerycountymd.gov
GRAND OPENING OF NEW SILVER SPRING LIBRARY
Leggett, Other Officials to Cut Ribbon, Celebrate Opening of Newest Urban Library in County’s Award-Winning System of Public Libraries
Saturday, June 20
11 a.m.
900 Wayne Avenue
(under overhang at front of building, Wayne Ave. and Fenton St.)
The new state-of-the-art library will open for business following remarks and a ribbon cutting by local officials and library and community representatives.
The approximately 63,000 gross square-foot library will occupy the 3rd, 4th and 5th levels of the five-story building.
New features in the library include:
- Outside 24/7 pickup lockers for materials on hold;
- Pre-K interactive early literacy space with elements from The Burgeon Group;
- Accessibility Center with suite of adaptive software and hardware;
- Coffee bar/café with café seating operated by Kefa Café;
- Powered laptop seating bars on the third and fourth floors;
- Green roof;
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scanners that will check out multiple items at one time and a check-in system featuring conveyor belts in the book drop room and staff workroom that will automatically check in items with both RFID tags and barcodes.
- Tech Bar featuring current mobile and other technology for demonstrations and hands on use
- 90,000 print volumes
- World Language Collection: Amharic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Vietnamese
Participating in the opening ceremonies will be: County Executive Ike Leggett, County Council President George Leventhal and Vice-President Nancy Floreen; Councilmembers Tom Hucker (Dist.5); Craig Rice; Roger Berliner; Marc Elrich; Sidney Katz; Nancy Navarro; and Hans Riemer; Montgomery County State Senator Jamie Raskin and State Delegates Sheila Hixson and David Moon; and former County Councilmember from Dist. 5, Valerie Ervin. Also, Director of Montgomery County Public Libraries Parker Hamilton; Director of General Services David Dise; Assistant State Supt. for Libraries Irene Padilla; and Friends of the Library, Silver Spring Chapter President Becky Reeve.
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