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Show Central library opens, celebration Sept. 10th By DONETA GATHERUM LAYTON An open house for the new Central Branch Library will be held Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. Featured Fea-tured speakers will be Glen Saunders, Saun-ders, county clerk and former Davis County commissioner, and Dr. Arthur Wiscombe. Musical numbers will be provided by students stu-dents from Layton High School's music department. The $1.1 million facility was designed de-signed by Douglas Todd of Bountiful. Bounti-ful. It opened on Aug. 29 after about ab-out one year from groundbreaking to completion. Incorporated into the building are many pleasant features including includ-ing open spaces for children and adults. Windows on the west give a good view of Kays Creek. Both sides of the creek are landscaped and there are several areas where people can sit along the creekside and read. The layout is easy to follow fol-low and equally easy to supervise from the check out desk. The soft colors and combination of natural and artificial lighting make the setting set-ting very pleasant. The Central Branch has some unique un-ique features. It houses the only collection of video cassettes in the Davis County Library System. There are about 400 cassettes available on a variety of topics not found in the commercial video stores. Most are of a cultural nature na-ture including Shakespeare plays, PBS programs, music, ballet and instructional materials. Videos can be checked out for two days only and there is a limit of two per customer. cus-tomer. There are two carrels near the video selection area where patrons can go to preview the videos and i audio tapes. The Central Branch is the only library in Davis County to have a computer card catalog. The library staff will help patrons use this new method of book location that replaces re-places completely the old, bulky trays of 3x5 cards. There is a typewriter available in the library for public use. An auditorium with a seating capacity for about 70 people is also located in the library. This can be used free of charge by non-profit groups. Audio-visual equipment is available in the auditorium. There is a stage area and a baby grand piano. The Central Branch Library opens with a collection of 30,000 volumes including about 12,000 children's books and -- special selection for young adults. The number of books will increase at a rate of about 5,000 per year until there are 50,000 books in the library. lib-rary. Through a computerized borrowing bor-rowing system, library patrons have access to 200,000 volumes. Titles Ti-tles not housed in the Central Branch can be obtained by borrowing borrow-ing within a day or two after the request is made. The library staff consists of the Branch Librarian, Jerry Meyer, two full time people and seven part-time part-time workers. Mr. Meyer is a graduate gra-duate of the University of Oregon with a master's degree in library science. He has been with the Davis County system since 1982, formerly serving as the branch librarian lib-rarian in Clearfield. Mr. Meyer worked in Oregon as a cataloger and an assistant director of libraries. lib-raries. The children's librarian is Gladys Gober, who formerly held the same position in Clearfield. Children's story hours were held each Friday at 11:30 a.m. Library hours are 1 1 a.m. until 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday and 1 1 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. All people living in Davis County can obtain a library card by filling out an application and presenting an ID card with a current address. There is no charge for library cards except for those people living in Kaysville who are serviced by their independent library. Kaysville residents resi-dents pay a non-resident fee of $25 per year. |