The renovations of the Wapakoneta Branch of the Auglaize County Library is getting national recognition.
The Library Journal, which features libraries across the United States, put a spotlight on those that were built new or remodeled in 2019 and the Wapakoneta library was featured as part of that issue. The remodel of the 50-year-old building was completed around a year ago. The building went from a quiet place with books, into a place where the community and families come together.
“This needs to be a place where people can come and enjoy the environment with their children or with their friends. Sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee enjoy the space use our meeting rooms and things like that,” says Beth Steiner the Director of the Auglaize County Library. “We are not a typical quite library, that people think of what libraries use to be. We are a library that is loud and vibrant, but if you need those quiet spaces we have those too.”
Steiner says they are ready to make a little noise with their winter reading program which starts in January, and students participating are entered in a drawing for a zoo membership to either Toledo or Columbus.
