Latimer library renovation plans moving ahead

The $1 million project is being privately funded and is scheduled for later this year.

March 27, 2015 at 6:14PM

St. Paul Public Library officials are collecting feedback from the public on their preliminary plans to renovate the three main floors in the George Latimer Central Library.

The plans can be found at www.sppl.org/renovations , which also includes an email link to offer comments and suggestions.

The project, expected to cost about $1 million, is scheduled for later this year. Funding has been raised by the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, the library system's nonprofit partner. No tax money will be used.

Plans include rearrangement of the circulation area on the first floor, more soft seating and a new meeting room for the Nicholson Commons on the second floor, and a meeting/interview room on the third floor's Mississippi Room.

A meeting with library staffers will be held in April to get more input, and a community meeting open to the public is planned for later this spring.

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Kevin Duchschere

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Kevin Duchschere, a metro team editor, has worked in the newsroom since 1986 as a general assignment reporter and has covered St. Paul City Hall, the Minnesota Legislature and Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington and Dakota counties. He was St. Paul bureau chief in 2005-07 and Suburbs team leader in 2015-20.

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