Crowded: Knight is not a substitute for public library
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“People are finding that they
have to go home and that they
can’t do any research here,” said
Williams.
The majority of the seating has
given way to shelving that is
spread out across the main room.
Williams said the building isn’t
constructed to handle the weight
of the books in that particular
area, which is why the aisles are
abnormally wide between the
rows of books.
When the library first opened
in 1959, books and other materi
als amounted to 57,345 items.
Over the last 38 years, the library
has acquired more than four
times that amount, totaling
289,139 items in 1997.
Other space has been sacri
ficed as well. One of the confer
ence rooms was used to accom
modate an Internet computer
room. "We used [the room] to
hold 1,200 meetings a year,”
Williams said.
Even though the library has
seen an increase of 68,942 bor
rowers since it opened,
Williams said the demand
would be even greater if a new
library was built.
She said a survey the library
does every three years shows
that its current state affects pa
tronage.
“We are always told that peo
ple don’t use the library because
it is too crowded and too noisy.”
She said all of that would be
different with a new or expanded
building.
"Every single library that has
expanded, upgraded or has
added branches has seen a popu
lation increase of up to 50 per
cent,” Williams said.
Even the University’s Knight
Library can’t offer any relief from
the crowded Eugene Public Li
brary.
“Our collections are very dif
ferent in nature,” said Deborah
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Increase in use of Eugene Public Library
Circulation at the Eugene Public Library has increased dramatically
since 1959, while population and number of books have increased
less substantially.
1500
Carver, associate librarian for
Knight Library. “We don’t offer
very much relief.
“They need a public library,
and a good one,” she said. “We
CARASTRAZZO/Emerald
are not a substitute.”
Carver said some people have
argued that Knight Library is a
good replacement. “There have
been people who have said ‘Why
do we need a new library, when
we have the largest research li
brary in the state?’”
However, Carver said, “We are
complementary, we don’t duplicate;
we have very different missions. ”
A Better Library for Every
body and the Mayor’s Library
Improvement Committee are
both working on the over
crowding problem.The commit
tee recently released a brochure
illustrating the urgency of the
library’s situation. It was re
leased last Sunday at an event
for the library, which nearly
200 community members at
tended.
Eugenia Dressel, a Eugene res
ident who uses the library on a
regular basis has noticed the
need for a new library.
"A city is known by its li
brary,” she said. “It shows what
the people care about. If money is
not put up for a new library, it
means it is not willing to put up
for an education.”
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