Spencer Library Features Historic Bonnet Making Workshop

Workshop is Saturday, March 16 at 12:30 p.m.

Library District Setting New Policies to Manage Meeting Space

The St. Charles City-County Library District adopts guidelines on how new and old meeting space at library branches can be used and reserved.

St. Charles City-County Library District board member Lisa Pelikan may have hit on something new Monday night as district officials discussed how to manage more meeting space that they have ever had. “The dreaded helium balloon issue,” said Pelikan, at the district’s regular Board of Trustee meeting at the Deer Run Branch in O’Fallon. “We will never get them out of the atrium.” Pelikan was referring to what happens if helium balloons get loose in the high-ceiling atrium area of the new Spencer Creek Library Branch that set to open early next year. Helium balloons are lighter than air and may get stuck on the roof of the space. She was assured that helium balloons will be verboten. But it’s an example of the kind of questions that library …

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