Library News

Culpeper Star Exponent
Published: May 12, 2007

Culpeper County Library offers two walk-in story times for children. Both programs are free and do not require registration. Bedtime story time is a family event held every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Children are encouraged to wear their pajamas, slippers and bring their favorite stuffed animal. There will be stories, songs, rhymes and a craft. The themes for the next bedtime story times is: Tuesday, What's the buzz-
The popular Friday walk-in story time is every Friday at 10:30 a.m. Join us for stories, songs, activities and a craft! The theme for the next walk-in story times are: Friday, Lost and Found! For more information, call 825-8691 or check out the library website at www.cclva.org

Anime Club Meeting
If you like anime then this is the club for you! Culpeper County Library's Anime Club meeting May 23 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the library. There will be time for discussion of your favorite titles or series, and we will have a chance to watch Black Cat as well!
FMI call 825-8691

State library directors recognize county's work
Fauquier County Public Library recently received word that it had won the 2007 award for outstanding library facility from the Virginia Public Library Directors Association (VPLDA) for renovations done to the John Barton Payne community hall, 2 Courthouse Square, in Old Town Warrenton. The building, which was home to the Warrenton Library from 1924 through 1982, is now used for library programs and as a community meeting room.

Renovations to the hall were completed earlier this year and included refurbishing the interior, installing a rear stairway and a lift and modifying the building to comply with American Disability Act (ADA) standards. The new stairway provides a second means of egress, which increased the building's occupancy load from 50 to 100 people.

In the late 1990s the library stopped using the building for library programs because it was not handicapped accessible, and in 2005, Gum Drop Square, a Christmas shop for children sponsored by the nonprofit Partnership for Warrenton, was moved for the facility because children in wheelchairs could not visit with Santa. The lack of handicapped accessibility spurred the Board of Supervisors to approve funding to make the building complaint with American Disability Standards (ADA).