This is a branch library in one of the poorer parts of an already depressed town, so they are wanting to use it as more of a free community activity center, and the community it’s in will need it.

The library is not gigantic. It was formerly a funeral home. But they did an amazing job fixing it up.

Some of the features this library has or will have soon:

A test kitchen with restaurant-grade equipment.
A workshop with a tool library for lending.
A clean-up room featuring a washer, dryer and shower free for use.
A playground and splash pad for kids.
A huge patio deck for reading, relaxing or whatever else you might want to do.
Just a pleasant place to hang out.

And, of course, the expected things like a children's area, meeting rooms, a teen area, a small computer lab and a small collection of books and DVDs.

Before you start complaining about how “libraries don’t have books anymore!” The book stacks are still a 10-minute drive/bus ride away at the downtown branch. The books aren’t going anywhere. Libraries are more than just books. They are one of the few places the community can get all sorts of resources and a place to access them for free

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Very cool. Seems like it has all the things many modern libraries should pivot to offering where possible.

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

It's beautiful! The post isn't public on imgur or I would upvote you there too!

[–] sxan@midwest.social 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I really wish Imgur didn't block VPNs 🙁

I'm sure it's lovely - congratulations!

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Is that why I see that message instead?

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[–] KingOfNoobs@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Tell her thank you. Awesome job. Now can we put one of these in every town?

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How many people did it take to get this done? It looks fantastic for something that is just getting started.

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[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago

Heeeey whats up my fellow hoosier. Cheers to your bookstore!!

[–] kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 23 hours ago

Huge W

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Looks great fellow Hoosier. Terre Haute needs more of this.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Congrats.

Is Terre Haute really that poor? Not what I'd expect from the hometown of one of our country's most premier private technical colleges. Usually a college contributes quite a bit to the local economy, and that's a fancy one.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Average household income is ~$40,000, which is about half the national average, and there's a lot of joblessness, homelessness and substance abuse.

Rose-Hulman is a great school, but the school is outside of town and there's no bus from there to town either, so they don't go. We actually have three schools here- RHIT, Indiana State Univeristy and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. The students of all of them rarely leave campus. And I don't blame them because in general, there's fuck all for them to do.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a pretty tiny school. Only around 2k students.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, I see. That is really tiny.

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I didn't understand what imgur had become before I clicked the link and briefly thought the library had lots of copies of Twisters in 4k.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

More books would be nice, but the rest looks awesome. A great place for the community.

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