Status Report on Cedar Rapids Public Library

Link to July 18 Cedar Rapids Gazette article and video, "Long road ahead for library".

Excerpt:

There's an upside to seeing the Cedar Rapids Public Library as it is now — a vast shell studded with bare concrete pillars.

"It leaves it a lot more open to think, how can we do things differently?" said Library Board President Susan Corrigan.

Library board members and John Levy, managing director for Globe Midwest Risk Management, led reporters on a tour of the utterly empty building Friday afternoon.

Floodwaters reached 5 feet above the floor and, based on the marks on the wall, appear to have sloshed violently in the skylit lobby near the circulation desk.