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complex set to open Monday
' • By DAWN TRAVIS or Mary Lib Saleh said during a
' ' ` , Mid-Cities News tour on Thursday.
j The building, designed by
Y EULESS—The city s new$4 Dallas architect Phillips
million library complex, on Swages, "has absolutely exceed-
4r� North Ector Drive, bustled with ed our expectations — it's been
x f., activity last week as workers right on time and right on bud-
„ . - hustled to ready the 40,000 get,"Saleh said.
square foot-building for its Mon- Euless Library director Betty
day opening. Yarborough said about 60,000
� ti as Construction workers shoal- pieces of reading material were
YY{� dered ladders up and down the removed from the old, 8,000
b ��y library's halls, re adjusting light square foot building and
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itr i fixtures; movers toted in new shelved into the new library that
k chairs,sofas and tables and vol- is five times the size.
s • p unteers shelved, unshelved and New books and more materi-
?, y - reshelved books by the thou- als are still on the way,she said.
fi £' sands — all striving to make The Euless library sprang
" Mondays 10 a.m.deadline. from humble beginnings — at
. . . . %' . ... _.t.3; rn The spacious, state-of-the art first, operating out of a garage
building is a far cry from the on donated books, then growing
LISA LEVRIER/Mid-Cities News former Euless library — a to lease space out of a building
BettyYarbrough, manager of the Euless Public Libraryand stone's throw from the new fa- to finally, constructing its own
9 9 cility in distance but decades facility in 1967.
Mayor Mary Lib Saleh show off the child
new section in the apart in technology.
new library. "We've been looking forward
to this for 10 to 15 years," May- 0 See LIBRARY, Page 6A