After breaking ground on its new space last year, Delta Township Library has finally moved into its $7 million, 30,000 square foot facility at 5130 Davenport Drive.
The 200,000 people who use the Delta Township facility had outgrown the library’s roughly 5,000 square foot space years ago. 
“In the old building, we had to get rid of something every time we got something,” says Cherry Hamrick, the library's executive director.
Now, instead of cramming into a small reading space, Delta Township Library members can freely move from wing to wing. The new library has a north wing for middle schoolers and young kids, and a south wing for adults. It also has MP3s, audio books, books on CD, thousands of DVDs and wireless Internet.
“Our circulation has been increasing every year,” Hamrick says. “That’s been true for libraries around the country. We think we could see a 50 percent increase based on need.”
Source: Cherry Hamrick, Delta Township Library
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
All Photographs © Dave Trumpie
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