Park Grove Library is looking to plan its future, and you can help.
Currently planning a remodel project through the county, the library located at 7900 Hemingway Avenue South in Cottage Grove wants public feedback, with two public involvement sessions are part of the process.
The first was held March 4 at Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park, while a second is planned for March 29 at Park Grove Library from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Planned as an artistic and dreaming session, the March 29 event with be led by Juxtaposition Art's Environmental Design Lab. As such, Design Lab staff will facilitate a dreaming session with teens and adults, to be followed with a hands-on building workshop to help envision the library's future. The input sessions are being held to assess community feedback and needs into the future, the current 20,000 square foot facility on 2.5 acres located just off 80th Street South behind the Grove 80 Apartments, just off 80th Street South. included among library mission and priorities are the following:
• Inspire curiosity, champion innovation, and spark opportunity
• Strengthen organizational culture and operational effectiveness
• Enhance physical spaces and technology infrastructure, and
• Expand the reach of the library
As for specific remodel project goals and objectives they are as follows:
• Provide a library that responds and reflects the community in which it serves
• Enhance the user experience by providing flexible and inclusive spaces for library services, events, and technology use
• Utilize County workplace guidelines to develop flexible workspaces and technology to support employee engagement, safety, well-being, and enhance diversity and inclusion
• Maintain fiscal responsibility within long range financial plan
• Provide the County with the highest value for its available budget, and
• Design, construct, and operate a facility that emphasizes energy efficiency, sustainability, and wellbeing.
Those who missed the March 4 session and can't attend the March 29 session aren't excluded from giving feedback, however. A nine question survey is available at the county website for the project, announced as "brief questionnaire" under "Public Involvement" for the "Park Grove Library Project."
Now five decades old at its current location, the library can thrive for decades to come—but it needs your input!