Have the needs of the Lake Oswego community outgrown the public library, or should an investment into the current location be made?
For the next six months, this central question will guide the community-led task force in weighing the necessary criteria for a new Lake Oswego Public Library.
At a meeting on Tuesday, May 19, Lake Oswego Library Director Melissa Kelly presented the process for analyzing the library’s future. Broken down into a phased approach – the criteria phase, the analysis phase and the decision phase – city leadership, in tandem with community members, will look at the feasibility of reusing the current library site and finding possible future locations. More specifically, the city will establish criteria for the decision, analyze the pros and cons of various options and then make a decision…