ST. PETERS — The St. Charles City-County Library District will open a temporary location in Mid Rivers Mall next year while two of its largest and busiest branches are closed for renovations.
The district's board on Tuesday voted to spend $36,165 to use the second-floor storefront space near the mall's Dillards store for 13 months, beginning in January.Â
The Spencer Road branch in St. Peters will be closed from sometime in January to the end of May. Then the Middendorf-Kredell branch in the O'Fallon area will shut down.
The renovation costs for the two branches will be about $2 million, the district said.
Plans call for the mall space to include a small collection of browsable materials. There also will be access to computers and some programs. More details will be announced later this month.
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"The space will be flexible enough that we will be able to adapt to other needs and opportunities that arise and adjust to how people use the space," district CEO Jason Kuhl said in a memo to the board.