REMODELING WILL CLOSE LIBRARY DEC. 7.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Palmdale Library will close Dec. 7 for a two-month, $170,000 remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling project that will increase its book capacity by 35 percent and add a room dedicated to Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley history. The remodeling project will include repainting the 21-year-old building, laying new carpeting and installing shelving shelv·ing n. 1. Shelves considered as a group. 2. Material for shelves. 3. An incline; a slope. shelving Noun 1. material for shelves 2. that will hold more books and will meet earthquake codes. The project will expand the library's capacity by 15,000 to 16,000 volumes. ``This is the first time the main library has had a face lift since it opened in 1977,'' said city librarian Lin Storsteen. Plans call for the library to reopen in late January. Books being checked out now will not have to be returned to the library until February. The city's youth library a block away will be open and the city plans to have book drop-off boxes outside the main library during the time it is closed. The remodeling project also includes converting the former children's story area into a local history room, featuring a collection of books, maps and photographs from longtime Palmdale resident Fred Strasburg. The collection includes 200 maps, 250 to 300 books and 150 photographs. The history room also will feature the stained glass windows Stained Glass Windows was an early broadcast television program, broadcast on early Sunday evenings on the ABC network. The program was a religious broadcast, hosted by the Reverend Everett Parker. The program ran from September 26, 1948 until October 16, 1949. from the library's original main doors. The doors were removed earlier this year for automated doors that are accessible to disabled patrons. The stained glass stained glass, in general, windows made of colored glass. To a large extent, the name is a misnomer, for staining is only one of the methods of coloring employed, and the best medieval glass made little use of it. , depicting a ``tree of life,'' will be framed with some of the original Philippine mahogany woodwork woodwork: see carpentry; furniture; intarsia; marquetry; veneer; wood carving. from the library. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Dave Helsley looks for a book in the Palmdale Library, which will close Dec. 7 for an extensive, two-month interior remodeling project. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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