Today, she’ll go to work there for the last time.īut even in retirement she’ll maintain a personal relationship with the library. She advocated for its construction and has led its 30-member staff since the day the front doors opened in June of 2008. The $7.2 million building is eight years old and Hamrick helped imagine it. “Then by the time it’s direct the sun’s higher so it doesn’t ever come straight in the windows.” “The morning sun is filtered so we get light but not direct light on the books,” she said, gesturing to the many windows at the top of the library. Its details - clean lines and natural light - still impress the long-time library director. Hamrick, 67, made daily visits to the 16-acre site on Davenport Drive during the library’s construction. Like the fact that every table has four electrical outlets. McLean Room in the corner, filled with over 600 books for, by and about women.īut there are things you can’t see that are worth mentioning too. Walking through the 30,000-square-foot building on the way to her office, she points out the fireplace that sets center stage among the bookshelves, a Motawi tile mural perched above it. Cherry Hamrick is at home in the Delta Township District Library.
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