$39.5 Million Hi-Tech Library Opens In Illinois

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$39.5 Million Hi-Tech Library Opens In Illinois

The new $39.5 million Fountaindale Public Library features: flat-screen TVs, video games, self-checkout stations, a variety of e-readers, and a cafe. Library officials say the new facility is a blueprint for libraries of the future, and will focus on using new technologies. From the article: "The Fountaindale Public Library, with its state-of-the-art, Wi-Fi equipped space, is starkly different from the previous antiquated library, a nearby one-story brick structure built in 1975 that awaits the wrecking ball. Officials are hopeful the new facility attracts a demographic libraries haven't seen in a number of years — young professionals."

Before you pish-posh the notion of video games, I remember our libraries growing up having designated play areas for children.

The cafe sounds like an excellent idea as well.

 

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$39.5 Million Hi-Tech Library Opens In Illinois



Before you pish-posh the notion of video games, I remember our libraries growing up having designated play areas for children.

The cafe sounds like an excellent idea as well.

The easy acess to information via the internet is what has kept me from making library visits. I doubt most people would make a trip to the library when Google and Wikipedia are just a mouse click away. If this library isn't close to a public school, I doubt if it will get many visitors.

 

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Oooh, fancy.