New meeting room dedicated at Randolph Library

RANDOLPH TWP. -- Mayor Jim Loveys and Library Director Anita Freeman welcomed the community to the library's newly constructed meeting room with an official ribbon cutting on Saturday.

With twice the amount of square footage as the previous room, the room was well received by visitors.

The library's funds paid for the work, which took seven months to complete, at a cost of $285,778.

The past space was 1,000 square feet and had 74 chairs that packed the room. The new space is twice that. Often, adult programs would be filled with attendees from an assisted living facility who would arrive by bus.

Some had wheelchairs or oxygen tanks.

"We had to start removing chairs to get them in. Some really popular programs would book solid. If you didnt register online you didnt get in and some people were not happy about that," Freeman said.

In order to follow fire code restrictions, the library needed to provide more room for their amount of visitors. The new meeting room now has two times the space with built in storage areas as well.

When the building was renovated back in 1985, every space was filled.

There was previously one closet which then became the technology room with computer equipment.

We could still store stuff but not the way we had hoped for, adds Freeman. With the various renovations weve done in the past six years -everything is improved with how we use the space. My maintenance person now has a closet that is big enough to hold her equipment and she has some storage as well which she didnt have before. Now we have more space for everybody.

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New meeting room dedicated at Randolph Library