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Fast Facts About Mount Prospect Public Library
Building Facts
- Architect/Interior Design: Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd.
- Contractor: The Meyne Company, Division of Bulley & Andrews LLC
- Owners Representative: Owner Services Group
- Engineering: Arnold and O’Sheridan, Inc.
- Signage: Forcade Associates
- Planning Consultants: Library Planning Associates
101,290 square feet
- Friends of the Library area - 1,595 square feet
- Meeting Rooms/Entry/Youth Services - 23,851 square feet
- Adult Services/Teen Zone - 37,769 square feet
- Staff area - 24,970 square feet
- Public area - 62,170 square feet
- Non-assignable areas - 14,150 square feet
Meeting Rooms
- Two public meeting rooms
- Meeting Room A, capacity 318
- Meeting Room B, capacity 42
- Computer Training Room
- Meeting Room C, capacity 10
- Youth Program Room
- Can be divided in half; capacity 125
- State-of-the-art LCD projection units and sound systems are housed in all Meeting Rooms
- 90 Internet-connected (e-net) Stations, 50 catalog stations, and free WiFi
- 2 copiers on the first floor, one can print in color
- 2 copiers on the second floor, one can print in color
- Circulation: 892,957 (2008)
- Collection: 499,388 items (August 2009)
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A staff of 171 full- and part-time employees work at Mount Prospect Public Library, in over a dozen areas throughout the facility.
Administration Human Resources Building Services Information Services Circulation Services Reference Services Collection Management Registration and Patron Management Services Community Services Technical Services Computer Services Youth Services Fiction/AV/Teen Services
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