Please join us at our Open House on Wednesday, September 11
We will be having a reception from 4:30-6:30 celebrating our
recent remodeling projects. Refreshments
will be served!
Below is our press release:
LME Library Open House September 11
In celebration of our recent remodeling projects, the Lillie M. Evans
Library District will be hosting an open house on Wednesday, September 11, with
a reception from 4:30-6:30pm. Please
join us for refreshments and to view the completed capital improvements.
The renovations included several projects. In the first phase, we replaced the doors at
our library entrances with tempered glass to improve safety and energy
efficiency. We also repainted the
interior a warm color to make the library a more inviting place. Finally, we addressed the library’s
flooring. The fraying, stained carpeting
has been replaced with a wood look vinyl plank and new carpeting designed to
resist and hide stains. The goal of
these capital improvements was to improve the overall condition and aesthetics
of the library interior.
The LME Library offers a variety of resources to our users. The library supports economic development by
providing resources on business and entrepreneurial issues. We offer technology training as well as free
internet access. We provide resources
and assist in locating informational and recreational materials. We are a public building that is open 50
hours per week. In FY13, 35,002 visitors
came to the library, and we circulated 47,803 items.
In conjunction with the open house, we will be remembering the events
of 9/11. There may be nothing more antithetical to terrorism, hatred, and
fanaticism than the American public library.
In 1953, President Dwight
D. Eisenhower wrote, "our librarians serve the precious liberties of our
nation: freedom of inquiry, freedom of the spoken and written word, freedom of
exchange of ideas. Upon these principles, democracy depends for its very life,
for [libraries] are the greatest sources of knowledge and enlightenment." We
believe there can be no more appropriate commemoration of September 11, 2001
than for libraries to continue to promote understanding, to guarantee
freedom of access to information, and above all, on that particular day, to stand
with doors wide open as a remarkable symbol of our freedom.
