A groundbreaking ceremony for Stafford’s second library is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at the southwest corner of Plantation Drive and Lyons Boulevard in the England Run Subdivision.

The library will be the latest addition to the Central Rappahannock Regional Library system. The 30,000 square-foot facility will have features similar to those found in modern bookstore chains. Plans include display shelving, changeable graphics and an audio visual system. The building will also have comfortable seating areas, flexible meeting spaces, self-checkout technology, a drive-thru book drop, youth room with wireless access, fireplace and a coffee station. The children’s area will contain a nine-foot-tall acrylic structure shaped like a sun that will serve as the center for the library’s children’s story hour program.

Board of Supervisors Chairman George Schwartz, Falmouth District, will serve as the keynote speaker. Members of the Board of Supervisors and staff from the Central Rappahannock Regional Library have been invited. The library will be the latest addition to the Central Rappahannock Regional Library System. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2010. 

Gregory S. Lukmire, the owner of The Lukmire Partnership in Arlington, is the architect contractor for the library. His firm also designed the Porter Library on Parkway Boulevard in north Stafford and completed interior renovations at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library.

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