gs. Sunday, ‘November 6. 1988 - North Shore News

W. Van
library
expansion
funding
appointed

WEST VANCOUVER’S
Memorial Library, which
enjoys the highest per capita
use in the Lower Mainland,
recently received a funding
commitment from West
Vancouver District Council
for an expansion proposal.

Council agreed to put aside
$400,000 each year, for three
years, starting in 1989, towards the
expansion needed to resolve cur-
fent overcrowding and allow for
expected future growth.

Having undergone a major
renovation and expansion in the
1970s, the Memorial Library has
again run into space problems.
Some materials are now being
stored off-site at Hillside Middle
School, a practice that is labor in-
tensive and costly.

Following a 1987 study, in-
dependent consultants advised that
the library was 15,000 sq. ft. short
of efficient space as of 1986, a
problem that would continue to
worsen by 1,000 sq.ft. a year.

The Memorial Library Founda-
tion is hoping to raise the money
needed for an on-site expansion,
constructed in phases, which
would cost an estimated total of
$4.7 million.

According to the head of West
Vancouver Memorial Library,
Jack Mounce, the first priority
would be a replacement of the
children’s wing, which he describ-
ed as ‘‘nice but wasteful of space.’’

The replacement would be a
four-storey structure, with two
floors below the main tucked into
the ravine.

A future option would be a pa-
vilion (including art gallery) on the
existing parking deck, which might
require the use of the North Shore
Union Board of Health office site
to the west to make up the lost
parking.

Frovincial and federal funding
will be sought to augment the
1989-91 $1.2 million commitment
from council.

Starting in 1992, council may
commit an additional sum up to a
maximum of $400,000 a year (for

See Library
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