Thursday, September 4, 2008

New Rockwall County Library is something community can be proud of

For library volunteer Suzanne Vancil, helping shelve 75,000 books before Monday's opening of the new Rockwall County Library has brought aches and pains.

LARA SOLT/DMN
LARA SOLT/DMN

"Ibuprofen has gotten me through stooping and bending for two weeks," she said.

Still, she said, it's a lot easier than working at the old library, where 50,000 books were jammed in and there was barely room to push a cart. The new 52-000-square-foot library on Yellow Jacket Lane is five times the size of that building.



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