{"id":32686,"date":"2016-03-09T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=32686"},"modified":"2020-08-20T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:27:03","slug":"branching-out-weber-county-opens-near-library-in-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/branching-out-weber-county-opens-near-library-in-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Branching Out: Weber County opens new library in Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32686 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/branching-out-weber-county-opens-near-library-in-roy\/above-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/above-3-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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black box theater and gallery space. In addition, a 20,000-square-foot mezzanine, where support services are located, overlooks a spacious area with ample room for the branch&#8217;s collection of physical material.<\/p>\n<p>Prescott Muir Architects (PMA) was selected through a competitive bidding process to design and oversee construction of the Headquarters\/Southwest Branch Library which cost some $45 million to construct.\u00a0 As the architects for Weber County&#8217;s Ogden Valley and Pleasant Valley branches, PMA is well versed in designing \u201cthird place libraries,\u201d says Lynnda Wangsgard, director of the Weber County Library system. She explains:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur first place is our home, if we are lucky enough to have one. \u00a0Our second place is usually our work or school. \u00a0Our third place is where we go to engage our community. \u00a0Third place libraries recognize that learning is often a social activity where people come together to teach as well as to learn. \u00a0Third place libraries are flexible, comfortable, and welcoming to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A major focus of the new branch, as in many libraries, is children, with numerous features meant to attract them. One is a marvelous carved wooden whale sculpture acquired from the San Francisco Academy of Sciences. Whales are \u201cfavorites of children,\u201d Wangsgard observes, \u201cwho revere these living creatures with the same awe they usually reserve only for dinosaurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Gallery at Southwest&#8221; has more than 200 linear feet of exhibit space, as well as a 20-foot glass exhibit case.\u00a0Gallery lighting augments the natural light that falls through clerestory windows, Wangsgard tells us.<\/p>\n<p>Hyunmee Lee was chosen to provide the opening exhibit because she was selected by the Utah Division of Arts &amp; Museums to receive their 2015 Fellowship Award for Visual Arts Excellence.\u00a0\u201cHer work,\u201d says Wangsgard,\u201dgraces corporate and private collections on three continents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Storer&#8217;s ceramics were selected \u201cbecause of her unique ability to capture the human image.\u00a0Her portrait plates evoke deep feelings and are inspirational in their\u00a0ability to bring out both the ordinary and extraordinary in each of us,\u201d Wangsgard states.<\/p>\n<p>Storer was a 2015 semifinalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The show runs until the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>While the new branch has been open just over a week, Wangsgard says it has been visited by an average of 1,000 people a day who have borrowed more than 10,000 books.\u00a0\u201cCommunity members have frequented the facility to have lunch in the library cafe, and attend programs that have ranged from exercise classes to political meetings; from children&#8217;s discovery times, to poetry slams.\u00a0It is already working beautifully as a third place library.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Weber County Library System took advantage of the extra day this leap year to unveil their newest branch and home to their regional Headquarters Library at 2039 W. 4000 South in Roy. 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