The Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room.
Do you want more fiction in the stacks? Do you wish the Reading Room were better lit? Do you want nonfiction out of the basement? Do you think the Young Adult section is too small? Are you tired of pink and green? Do you wish you could meet a friend for tea at the library café? Do you have to duck under the low ceiling in the basement? Do you need more Internet support or electrical outlets? Whether you rush in and out of Circulation or linger in the stacks, do you dream of improving your library in ways small or large?
Join the Lincoln Public Library Board of Library Trustees and designers on Tuesday, September 1 at 7 p.m. in the Tarbell Room to explore possible improvements and enhancements to our library. Your opinion matters and the trustees want and need to hear from Lincoln residents.
Following an appropriation from Town Meeting earlier this year, the board hired design firm Stefura Associates of Boston to lead this intense evening discussion to explore the opinions of Lincoln town residents and Library patrons. After collecting suggestions from the library’s patrons, the Stefura team will recommend conceptual plans to improve and optimize the efficiency and use of existing spaces and the flow amongst spaces. The design effort will be completed by October 15.
Stefura and her team of designers bring to Lincoln 15 years of experience preserving and enhancing historic libraries, including public libraries in Lexington, Duxbury, Hingham, Cohasset, Bolton and the Massachusetts State House.
Built in the Queen Anne Revival style in 1884 by the Boston architect William G. Preston on land given by the Lincoln merchant George Tarbell, our library was doubled in size by architect Graham Gund in 1989. Lincoln now enjoys nearly 20,000 square feet devoted to literature, scholarship, research, literacy, local history, and artistic expression.