3 - Sunday, November 13, 1988 — West Vancouver Villager

Council votes for library expansion

WEST VANCOUVER’S ‘‘dream library’’ is now a possibil-
ity, thanks to West Vancouver District Council’s Oct. 24
decision to begin accumulating funds for a further expan-

sion of the facility.

Raising the funds for the pro-
ject, with an estimated final cost of
$4.7 million, will be a daunting
task, bu: council has started things
off by committing an annual con-
tributior of $400,000 for the next
few years, to the cause.

Although some of the money
may be acquired from fedcral and
provincial sources, the rest will
have to be raised in the communi-

ty.

By MAUREEN CURTIS
Villager Reporter 7

“Public responses have been

very favorable to the need for ex-
pansion,*’ Mounce said recently.
' Utilization of what has frequent-
ly been called North America’s
busiest library has also continued
to grow — by more than 25 per
cent in the 1980s alone.

Staff are working under crowd-
ed conditions, and some materials
have been moved to offsite storage
at Hillside Secondary.

Although many details of the
expansion have yet to be worked
out, the project will likely begin
with the replacement of the cast
children’s wing with a four-storey
structure that will take better ad-
vantage of the site.

The new wing will likely incor-
porate two floors below ground
level and one above.

Working around the construc-
tion will be difficult, though
Mounce has worked out a plan
that would involve moving. the

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JACK MOUNCE, chief librarian for West Vancouver Memorial Library, indicates an area of the library that is
due to be renovated. West Vancouver council recently voted to contribute $400,000 annually for the next few
years to the library's expansion fund. The total cost of the expansion will be $4.7 million.

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the health unit building is to the great extent on public support of
west, and moving the children’s the West Vancouver Memorial
department into the vacated space. —_ Library Foundation.

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