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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

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Very cool. Seems like it has all the things many modern libraries should pivot to offering where possible.

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How many people did it take to get this done? It looks fantastic for something that is just getting started.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A large number. Construction crews, architects, all kinds of stuff. The funeral home it used to be had to be gutted and remodeled. They had to do stuff like get rid of the embalming fluid smell in the basement. Plus all the permitting and stuff. She only told me a bit about it and because it's been such an exhausting process, I haven't really pressed her on details unless she offers them.

I do know that there was such a rush to get it open by yesterday that my wife was out doing things like spreading gravel with the maintenance people to get it done in time.

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

Well a hearty well done to everyone involved. And thank you for showing it to us. It is refreshing to see examples of people building up their community when the majority of news focuses on negative events.

[–] KingOfNoobs@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Tell her thank you. Awesome job. Now can we put one of these in every town?

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Heeeey whats up my fellow hoosier. Cheers to your bookstore!!

[–] kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 days ago
[–] indomara@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's beautiful! The post isn't public on imgur or I would upvote you there too!

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Looks great fellow Hoosier. Terre Haute needs more of this.

[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I can't see any images or any link to an album. Using Boost for Lemmy app on Android

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The link is in the headline as always with these things, so I don't understand.

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a pretty tiny school. Only around 2k students.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Oh, I see. That is really tiny.

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I didn't understand what imgur had become before I clicked the link and briefly thought the library had lots of copies of Twisters in 4k.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago

More books would be nice, but the rest looks awesome. A great place for the community.

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