Excerpt: If Omaha Public Library officials have their way, some major changes are coming to the city's library system.
Among the ideas proposed in a library planning report:
- Omaha's flagship library would leave its downtown location and move closer to the middle of the city, into a new building at or near Crossroads Mall at 72nd and Dodge Streets.\
- The Swanson Library at 90th Street and West Dodge Road would be closed, replaced by the new Crossroads-area main library.
- The current downtown site could be sold to a developer for a high-rise building.
- A smaller branch would be built elsewhere in downtown Omaha, probably near Joslyn Art Museum.
- Two new suburban libraries would be added: one near the Village Pointe shopping center near 168th Street and West Dodge Road, the other near 180th and Q Streets.
None of those projects has been approved, the library's executive director, Gary Wasdin, said in an interview Thursday. In fact, the city is still waiting for a consultant to finish cost estimates later this month.
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