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Rust Library closes, temporarily
Anyone who has ever moved knows that boxes of books can be the heaviest.
When Rust Library closed June 1 for renovations and additions, library staff started to pack up the some 85,000 books that will need to be moved from the location at 380 Old Waterford Road in Leesburg.
If each box holds 30 books and weighs about 40 pounds, that's about 2,834 boxes of books or 133,360 pounds – the same weight as five African elephants or seven killer whales or 13 Hummers.
It's not a ton of books; it's 51.4 tonnes of books.
This is what library staffers face to prepare for construction.
"We're going to probably be in there through July moving all the books and stuff," said Douglas Henderson, Loudoun's director of Library Services. "The building is going to be gutted."
Some of those books are going to the new location. Some will be weeded out and sold at a book sale at Rust Library June 30 and July 1. Others will go to the temporary library location at 34D Catoctin Circle, which currently houses the Video Den Store. About half the books – bestsellers, children's books and must-haves – will go to the temporary library, Henderson said.
Renovations and additions to the library include a new children's section -- twice the size of the old one – much larger meeting and conference areas, and an area specifically for teens.
"We're adding 15,000 square feet," Henderson said. Rust library is now about 23,000 square feet.
The library is expected to be closed for 18 months.
Questions about the library can be answered at its Web site at http://www.lcpl.lib.va.us/rust.
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