“We are a reflection of our neighborhoods,” said Karen Pickard-Four, who coordinates security and social services at the Central Library and all the branches. The library is at once a sanctuary of the world’s knowledge and a canvas of a nation’s failings. Two moms are at the center of the fight against book banning in America: ‘It’s exhausting’ “I don’t want to lose it, but this is valuable space. “How often does this get requested?” said Szabo, who calculates the future in centimeters and paragraphs and recently read a book about how U.S. Founded in 1951 for those who grout tile and hang cabinets, the periodical was no match for Prince Harry’s memoir or a Stephen King novel. He stopped at a shelf holding years of “Family Handyman” magazines. He passed a slumbering homeless man and, with the efficiency of a spy, disappeared into stacks of bound archives, hundreds of thousands of relevant and obscure pages - including the 1991 “Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.”Ī tall man with sparks of gray in his goatee, Szabo, the city librarian, oversees 72 branches, a $241.8 million budget, 17,000 restaurant menus, 64 ukuleles, a Shakespeare volume from 1685, and lockers of puppets for a children’s theater. John Szabo stepped out of the elevator and walked through the sunlit atrium of the Central Library. Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.The sparrows fled the courtyard. Source: Cherry Hamrick, Delta Township Library

We think we could see a 50 percent increase based on need.” “That’s been true for libraries around the country. “Our circulation has been increasing every year,” Hamrick says. It also has MP3s, audio books, books on CD, thousands of DVDs and wireless Internet. The new library has a north wing for middle schoolers and young kids, and a south wing for adults. Now, instead of cramming into a small reading space, Delta Township Library members can freely move from wing to wing. “In the old building, we had to get rid of something every time we got something,” says Cherry Hamrick, the library's executive director. The 200,000 people who use the Delta Township facility had outgrown the library’s roughly 5,000 square foot space years ago.

After breaking ground on its new space last year, Delta Township Library has finally moved into its $7 million, 30,000 square foot facility at 5130 Davenport Drive.

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