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<\/a>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\nIt’s the most literary of makeovers. The Martin Luther King, Jr. library is back open after 18 months of renovations. <\/p>\n
The library was built in 1970 and hadn’t undergone any physical improvements since that time. The new design features a raised ceiling that creates an open, airy floorplan. <\/p>\n
Colors are light and bright and there are multiple places to relax and read.<\/p>\n
Th children’s area features spaces to play, do crafts and fall in love with books. <\/p>\n
Peter Coyl <\/a>is the Sacramento Public Library Director and CEO. He says the updated design includes modern amenities you didn’t find in libraries from years ago. There’s a maker space with 3-D printing, crafting and an audio booth. <\/p>\n And while the floorplan is very open, there are also opportunities to find a quiet place to study and collaborate. <\/p>\n “We’ve added three study rooms. We didn’t have any before. People want a space to do their projects . We have three study rooms, a large one and two small ones, that people can use,” says Coyl. <\/p>\n The $8.3 million renovation was funded mostly from a grant from the California State Library’s Building Forward Library Facilities Improvement Program.<\/p>\n The community is invited to a grand opening celebration on Aug. 15. <\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a> | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Library reopens after renovations SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 It’s the most literary of makeovers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[169136,2820,24264,647,23615,2518,169134,473,35921,45069,65871,58980,592,169135,14808,121,123,122,169133,169138,1744,169137],"class_list":["post-423898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-airy-floorplan","tag-app","tag-book","tag-books","tag-download","tag-grand-opening","tag-jr-library","tag-kcra","tag-library","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-new-design","tag-people","tag-peter-coyl","tag-renovation","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-public-library","tag-sacramento-public-library-director","tag-space","tag-study-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}