Executive Summary - Overall Conclusions
- Size
Year 2020
If no changes are made by the year 2020, and if funding is received
from The Library Bond Act of 2000 for Fowler, Mendota and the Central
Library, six communities will have libraries of adequate size. Projects
are underway in Caruthers, Laton and Woodward.
One facility will be inadequate, that is it has 56-90% of the space
needed.
Twenty-six communities will have facilities that are unacceptable; i.e.
they will have 11 to 55% of the space needed.
Ten communities will need new facilities because there is or will be
no library located in that community.
Ten communities will need new facilities because there is or will be
no library located in that community.-
For a list of locations under each category, see Appendix
B.
- Condition
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Poor: 4 libraries have major facility problems, e.g. structural. Changes
are underway on 3 of these libraries.
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Inadequate: 17 libraries need additional work, e.g. carpet, electrical,
HVAC.
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Adequate: 11 libraries are adequate: no work is needed
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For a list of locations under each category, see Appendix C.
- Additional criteria should be added for selection of facility projects
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The degree to which the existing library facility is inadequate in meeting
the needs of the residents in the library service area. Key factors
are literacy rate, school test scores, and technology available in schools
in the library service area.
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Needs of urban and rural areas.
