Clearly the most important aspect of the Children’s Room addition in the early 1990's was the basement. Where the doors to the garden on the Adult side of Woods Branch are now located, there was a large window in what used to be the Children’s area. From the first day of construction, youngsters visiting the library would immediately run over to plaster hands and faces against that window in order to observe the large steam shovel and the smaller ‘Cat’ machines digging the basement and foundation for the new addition. After the addition was complete, they watched the construction of the garden and its surrounding fence.
I’m not sure who enjoyed the process more – the children watching the big machines at work or the Children’s Department staff watching the children watching the construction.
Susan Scheps, Children's Services Supervisor
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