Architect is helping shape the area, a library at a time

Mountainburg residents are being asked to attend a town meeting in the cafeteria of Mountainburg High School March 8 (Thursday) to offer their input, questions and ideas for a new library for the town near Alma.

The Mountainburg Public library began in a cramped old service station building in 1964. In 1979, the library revved up operations and was moved to the Mountainburg community building. The library has been its present location, a concrete block-and-wood pane-building on property belonging to the U.S. Forest Service, since 1999.

It’s one of five branches in the Crawford County Library System, with the headquarters being in located in the Van Buren Public Library, erected with the help of renowned library architect Jeffery Scherer. As a founding principal of Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. in Minneapolis, he focuses on personal, public and academic library design, institutional buildings and corporate work places. He has said he is interested in issues that shape places in our world.

The meeting, at 6 p.m., is free. More information is at
(479) 369-1600 and at the library.