With a ribbon cutting set for February 8 to celebrate a major renovation of the Kent County Public Library in Chestertown, representing close to $200,000 in direct and indirect costs, KCPL Director Jackie Adams and President of the Kent County Library Board of Trustees Barbara Macbeth certainly had something to crow about in their check-in session with the Chestertown Spy last week.
With new furniture, bathrooms with ADA compliance, and an impressive reception desk, these capital improvements marked a considerable success story in assembling critical support from Kent County, the State of Maryland, and most importantly, the Library’s two private philanthropic support groups, the Kent County Public Library Foundation and the Friends of the Library. But beyond the actual physical improvements this has made in the life of the Chestertown’s downtown library, what Jackie and Barb wanted to stress in their chat with the Spy was how these fit into a much larger vision of building a regional library system for the 21st Century.
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