Frisco opens new public library

FRISCO, Texas — What do you get if you have an outdated warehouse that was a manufacturing unit production rocket portions? Well, the City of Frisco noticed a possible library in it. 

This “adaptive reuse project” transformed the distance into the new Frisco Public Library, opening Saturday, right into a high-tech area 3 times the scale of the town’s earlier library. 

The new area spans about 158,068 toes in comparison to the former library’s 50,000 sq. toes. Its architectural and internal design had been impressed via Blackland Prairie, with its carpet, colours and Storytime “starry night sky” lit ceiling intended to replicate the Texas prairie.

The venture price about $62 million and was once funded via voter-approved bonds. 

Tech facilities on the library come with self-checkout, a web-based reservation device for find out about and convention rooms, text-confirmed confirmations and AR/VR holographic computer systems. 

The library has 210 computer systems, 77 monitors and 93 wireless get right of entry to issues. 

Children visiting the library will be capable of experience “Tiny Town,” the place the Ready to Read Railroad will probably be returning, together with a faux marketplace, development website online and veterinarian health center. 

The centerpiece of the new library is Rexy, a 22-foot tall, 42-foot-long T-Rex style. Library buyers named the dinosaur via a naming contest. 

There are about 284,000 pieces within the library, with about 22% of them being virtual. 

The library may also host occasions akin to puppet displays, cooking demos and kit demonstrations from the library’s makerspace. For extra information, discuss with the library’s website online here.

New hours for the library are from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday via Thursday, 9 a.m. to six p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. to six p.m. on Sunday.