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Caldwell Public Library reports rising use, urges facility planning as space tightens
Summary
Library staff told the council at a workshop that visits, program attendance and outreach have increased; staff highlighted a new holds locker, growing summer-reading participation and limits of the current facility and said facility planning will be part of the next strategic plan.
At a city workshop, library staff reported rising visits, program attendance and outreach and urged council members to include facility planning in long-term discussions.
Lacey, a library staff member, presented the Caldwell Public Library’s annual update and listed staffing, program and service highlights. “We really are a community space,” Lacey said, describing meeting-room bookings, outreach and a recently installed holds locker at Luby Park that staff said patrons used before the city publicly announced it was operational.
Lacey said the library employs 19 full-time staff, one part-time staff member and two seasonal part-time staff. Adult services…
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