A year ago, Denver’s Central Library reopened after four years of renovations that closed most of the city’s largest library to the public and cost around $60 million. Since then, new and longtime residents alike have been wowed by the state-of-the-art, 540,000-square-foot facility that includes six public floors of books and resources, a newly sunny Schlessman Hall, and features like the teen library and ideaLAB, a makerspace where anyone can use 3D printers, sewing machines, recording equipment and more for free.
But interim director Jennifer Hoffman’s favorite thing about Central Library is simple: 728.
“Across three floors of this building’s circulating collections, the biggest circulating collection is nonfiction. Dewey decimal is how we arrange them,” Hoffman explains. “You have call numbers from 000 to 999. The 700s are art and recreation, the 720s are architecture and 728 is American vernacular architecture.”
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