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1. LIB_030518_02.JPG: This was pretty much my first view of the public library and I was impressed. Those are floor-level shops on the left.
2. LIB_030518_06.JPG: These pieces of art were from a local artist named Jinny Lee Snow. She made her works out a paint and cloth, saying they were inspired by the scenery around Utah. Very pretty, I thought.
3. LIB_030518_12.JPG: You can see the floor-level shops on the bottom left as well as a mobile (bottom front).
4. LIB_030518_17.JPG: Here's the mobile. Called "Psyche", its done by Ralph Helmick and Stu Schechter. It features about 1500 small sculptures of books and fluttering butterflies, which form together to make the shape of a human head. "Psyche" is Greek meaning both "mind" and "butterfly". Some of the butterfly wings have words in foreign languages, taken from the humanitarian bill of rights.
5. LIB_030518_38.JPG: Yep! Fireplaces in a library. They only work during the winter months of course.
6. LIB_030521_18.JPG: A view up from the basement of the library where the children's section is. The cloths there are pulled across for a sun shade during hot days.
7. LIB_030521_34.JPG: I loved the bike rack -- "READ BOOKS"
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Wikipedia Description: Salt Lake City Public Library
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The Salt Lake City Public Library system's main branch building is an architecturally unique structure in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is located at 210 East, 400 South, across from the Salt Lake City and County Building and Washington Square.

History

The Salt Lake City Public Library was originally housed in the Salt Lake City and County Building in 1898. Thanks to a donation of land and money by a John Quackenbos Packard in 1900, a new library was built in downtown Salt Lake City; the building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This library remained in use until it outgrew the building in the early 1960s. The city library was then moved to a new home across from the City and County Building at the intersection of 500 South and 200 East. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on December 28, 1962, and the building was dedicated on October 30, 1964. In 1965, the old library was renovated into the Hansen Planetarium, funded by a donation of $400,000 from Beatrice M. Hansen.

1994 hostage incident

On March 7, 1994, a gunman took several hostages in a conference room on the second floor of the old main branch building. The library was evacuated and SWAT teams were called in during a six-hour siege, which ended in the death of the gunman and the freeing of the hostages.

Move to the current location

After celebrating the library's 100th anniversary in early 1998, an $84 million library bond was approved to move the library north half a block to its current location. The firm Moshe Safdie and Associates partnered with local architecture firm, VCBO Architecture to design the building, which opened to the public on February 8, 2003. The former building is now The Leonardo museum.

On September 15, 2006, a small bomb exploded in the third floor of the main building. No one was hurt, and the damage sustained by the building was a broken window. Eastbound traffic on the ...More...
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