Library to close Thursday, Friday; ribbon cutting set for March 31

The Madison County Library will be closed Thursday, March 22, and Friday, March 23, to put the finishing touches on a major expansion project.

The new-look library will be unveiled the following week with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the library at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 31.

Renovation work began at the library in April 2011. The project includes five additions to the building, which has nearly doubled the building’s footprint; 7,500 square feet were added to the original 10,000-square-foot building.

The library now has a larger and redesigned children’s area, larger public meeting room, more room to study, a new computer lab, new genealogy research room and more space in general for the collection.