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East Hampton Library Extension Nears Completion
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he new 6,800-square-foot Children’s Wing at the East Hampton Library, nearing completion and slated for a December opening, could not have had a better physical test than the September 3 downpour. Although much of the interior is still in the rough, a tour led by Library Director Dennis Fabiszak the morning after the deluge turned up not one drop of water, not even in the new four-foot deeper basement. Of course, board president Donald L. Hunting is not surprised. “Dennis’s attention to detail,” one of the main reasons he was hired, was to preclude problems that usually plague construction projects. Well, says Fabiszak, in return, the interview he had seven years ago went both ways: one of the main reasons he accepted the position, two years after the Children’s Wing project had been initiated, was his faith in the board that the project would be brought in as promised—as a privately funded and aesthetically satisfying community-sensitive addition to the centuryold “Kentish looking” brick-and-wood building with its leaded glass windows, the eighth such addition the library has sustained in harmony with earlier sections and with surrounding grounds. Reports from immediate neighbors have been “100% positive,” Fabiszak notes, with folks saying “it blends right in.” The project also includes an expanded and enhanced parking lot, with creative landscaping from Marders. Inside, there will be an all-floors elevator and
high-closet areas that will Hampton Garden Club, and make for efficiency and strategically placed windows allow for cost-saving onsite will let in light on all levels in storage. all seasons. A high-ceiling, “Not many libraries in the wood-paneled meeting room country could have done it will promote new programs, with private funds,” Fabiszak like simulcasts from the New points out. The 22-member York Public Library. There board looks to realize will also be a book sale $1.3 million, in addition room, a new main entrance to the $4.5 million already in the back, and a “cloister expended on the wing. hallway” that will connect “Children” is a broad term. The new addition should be completed by Dec. new and old passageways. The addition differentiates Hunting speaks quietly and among various age groups. There’s a room with affection as to the why of the Children’s just for high school/young adults, with its own Wing. “This library has a lot of history,” he librarian and another for younger teens, with says, “this is a great town, and the board and an information desk that resembles a boat and supporters see themselves as ‘stewards’ of the vinyl flooring that simulates water. The section building for another 100 years.” Although the dedicated to the lower grades will also be library boasts a nice collection of children’s divided, starting with a toddler space nearest materials, Fabiszak admits that because of the new entrance. (Plans call for a new part- limited space, acquisitions have been on the time librarian and a new part-time assistant.) “low end of the totem pole,” as compared to The rooms will have their own age-appropriate other libraries. The new wing will bring the reading materials, electronicss and planned children’s collection “storming into the 21st activities, and some items will no doubt find century.” their way into a children’s addition time The idea is to make the new facility a place capsule. Significantly, the design reflects focus “to use and learn in,” Fabiszak adds, and a place group suggestions. Teens, for example, asked to foster community. He notes with pride that for a fish tank, particular computer spaces and during Superstorm Sandy the library was open display areas for photography contest winners. every day, a resource as well as an archive. Staff intuited other needs, including special Hunting nods in agreement, noting that the DVD rooms for film and music. weather vane has been moved to the 114 side, There will be a green area, created by The East pointing the way. Courtesy East Hampton Library
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