Hours: Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays & Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.
Building Highlights
What makes our building stand out:
TEA Room and Digital Media Lab
Creative spaces for STEAM education or preserving your memories for future generations.
Fireplaces
Available on the First and Second Levels, the fireplaces are a favorite place to relax during cold weather.
Café
Enjoy fresh pastries, sandwiches, and drinks while working, meeting, and studying at the Library.
Automatic Book Sorter
Books and movies get back on the shelves faster with this world-class automated system.
Gold LEED Certification & Sustainable Features
A sustainable building is not only environmentally responsible, it saves the Library money maintaining it.
- Geothermal heating and cooling
- Natural, local materials
- Non-toxic materials
- Natural lighting in all spaces
- Multi-level lighting controls
- Biofiltration of storm water
- Site irrigation from geothermal wells
- Detention of all storm water on site
- LED light bulbs
- Energy efficient computers
Plants
We are proud to support the growth of native plants surrounding our building. The only exception are the honey locust trees which shade the courtyard.
Shade Trees
- Common Maple
- Green Mountain Sugar Maple
- Shademaster Honeylocust
- Black Gum
- Bloodgood London Planetree
- 'Village Green' Zelkova
Ornamental Trees
- Allegheny Serviceberry
- Whitebarked Himalayan Birch
- River Birch
- Eastern Redbud
- Flowering Dogwood
- Okame Cherry
Grasses & Groundcovers
- Bluejoint
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Blue Fescue
- Fountain Grass
- Big Blue Lirlope
- Myrtle
Shrubs
- Red Twig Dogwood
- Otto Luyken Cherrylaurel
- Lime Mount Spirea