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This is from the Nashua Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n

BROOKLINE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Privately owned land on Main Street and the town-owned ballfields on Route 130 have emerged as top contenders for a future library.<\/p>\n

Brookline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facilities committee has been working since spring to identify potential spots for a new library because the current library, in the former Church of Christ, is squeezed for space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, that’s fine… a lot of libraries are squeezed for space right now. There was a huge flurry of library building activity around the turn of the last century, and naturally the towns have outgrown those buildings. The one where I work certainly has.<\/p>\n

The current library is 6,000 square feet, and in 1993, the space was ideal, she said. The library moved there from Town Hall, which was too cramped to house it.<\/p>\n

At the time, the church was projected to accommodate library services for the next 20 years.<\/p>\n

Between 1998 and 2000, Brookline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s population grew much faster than anticipated, Tochko said. But now, the nooks and crannies are filling fast.<\/p>\n

A community area once roomy enough for 40 people has been slimmed to seat 20 because of a ballooning young-adult book section, she said. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no place to put new books, so the library uses two donated storage areas in town.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Compare to ours: storage is two houses the library owns up the street, all the fiction out in a double-wide trailer that takes up half the parking lot. No meeting space; they lost that 30 years ago when they had to put the children’s room in the basement.<\/p>\n

In 20 years, the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s population is anticipated to be 8,000 people, she said. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now estimated at 4,755, according to the N.H. Office of Energy and Planning.<\/p>\n

A 12,000-square-foot library would best suit those numbers, Tochko said. The hope is the town will buy property big enough for a second addition in the future because in 40 years, Brookline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s population is expected to soar to 10,500 people, she said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Le sigh. And we again compare. Our current town population is 24,000<\/b> for a library the same size<\/b> as the one that’s supposedly too small for less than 5000. If we’re lucky, we may possibly be getting a 15,000 sq. ft library… three years from now. But it hasn’t even been approved to be voted on yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is from the Nashua Telegraph: BROOKLINE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Privately owned land on Main Street and the town-owned ballfields on Route 130 have emerged as top contenders for a future library. Brookline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facilities committee has been working since spring to identify potential spots for a new library because the current library, in the former Church of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}