This is a branch library in one of the poorer parts of an already depressed town, so they are wanting to use it as more of a free community activity center, and the community it’s in will need it.
The library is not gigantic. It was formerly a funeral home. But they did an amazing job fixing it up.
Some of the features this library has or will have soon:
- A test kitchen with restaurant-grade equipment.
- A workshop with a tool library for lending.
- A clean-up room featuring a washer, dryer and shower free for use.
- A playground and splash pad for kids.
- A huge patio deck for reading, relaxing or whatever else you might want to do.
- Just a pleasant place to hang out.
And, of course, the expected things like a children’s area, meeting rooms, a teen area, a small computer lab and a small collection of books and DVDs.
Before you start complaining about how “libraries don’t have books anymore!” The book stacks are still a 10-minute drive/bus ride away at the downtown branch. The books aren’t going anywhere. Libraries are more than just books. They are one of the few places the community can get all sorts of resources and a place to access them for free
As a grumpy skeptic doomer, thank you! Keep doing this. I really hope it helps a great number of people.
It’s beautiful! The post isn’t public on imgur or I would upvote you there too!
I absolutely love this. Good stuff, man.
Wow!
My god the world needs people like your wife. Man. Tell her that I said she’s amazing.
Thanks, I read a bunch of comments to her this morning and I’ll read more to her when she gets home tonight.
Congratulations! I love seeing new libraries show up! I hope you don’t have to deal with authoritarian jackasses trying to ban books.
Obviously I love books and complaining about not enough books. But actually who cares. This is badass. Every bullet point cooler than the last. A kitchen? A workshop?? A shower and wash room?!
Actually excellent. Congrats to your wife’s hard work!
Thank you.
Holy crap, that is a legitimately amazing place! Well done by Mrs. Squid!!
P.S. Libraries rock and are true treasures
How many arms does Mrs. Squid have to do all that?
Just the two. It’s an interspecies marriage.
Damn
This is amazing! I love hearing stories like this. Keep up the fantastic work.
Every public library is a beacon of hope. Its the most true symbol of a civilized society. Each one brings light of knowledge where there would otherwise be darkness of ignorance.
Please pass my thanks to your wife for advancing civilization.
Just another wow post, make sure to tell her people from all over the world are grateful for her work:)
I told her just before she left for work this morning about the positive responses she’s received from Lemmings and she was really happy about it. She has worked so hard on this and I’m so impressed with the results. It was the first time I’d seen the inside.
Congrats.
Is Terre Haute really that poor? Not what I’d expect from the hometown of one of our country’s most premier private technical colleges. Usually a college contributes quite a bit to the local economy, and that’s a fancy one.
Average household income is ~$40,000, which is about half the national average, and there’s a lot of joblessness, homelessness and substance abuse.
Rose-Hulman is a great school, but the school is outside of town and there’s no bus from there to town either, so they don’t go. We actually have three schools here- RHIT, Indiana State Univeristy and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. The students of all of them rarely leave campus. And I don’t blame them because in general, there’s fuck all for them to do.
It’s a pretty tiny school. Only around 2k students.
Oh, I see. That is really tiny.
Huge W
