Forsyth County library officials began work on its new $6.8 million, 23,000-square-foot Hampton Park branch on Settingdown Road between Hampton Park Drive and Cross Roads Road. The library will be built with a combination of $2 million in state funding, county SPLOST money and impact fees collected from developers.
Hampton Park will join its sister libraries, the Cumming Library Branch on Dahlonega Highway and Sharon Forks Library Branch on Old Atlanta Road , and be open seven days a week.
Its collection will eventually be comprised of 96,000 items. In addition to fiction, nonfiction books and CDs, it will have a range of children and adult educational DVDs, music CDs, multimedia programs, recorded books and periodicals. It will offer 38 computer stations and will support wireless Internet connections. Children will find a full slate of story programs just for them including Lapsit, Storytime, Summer Reading Fun, and seasonal family programs. Plus, four child-friendly computer stations will provide educational games for the youngest library patrons.
The new library is scheduled to open in early 2010. Construction funds and a library site are available for a fourth branch on Post Road near Kelly Mill Road, with a projected opening in 2012.
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