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Most anticipated area of the library?
It's a highly contested topic - what area of the library are you anticipating the most? Teen space? Discover Zone? a Study Room? While everyone has a favorite, in the colder months, the fireplace is a sure winner! As you can see, installation has begun. Located...
Meeting Room details
Earlier, we shared a design image of the meeting room. When the meeting room is expanded, it will sit 140-people with three projection screens. Two of the three screens are highlighted with "red arrows" now installed! We're envisioning so many opportunities for our...
City of Delavan Announces $800,000 State Grant for Library Expansion & Renovation Project
The City of Delavan is pleased to announce that it has been awarded $800,000 through Governor Tony Evers’ Non-State Grant Program for the “Rooted in Our Community, Growing for the Future: Aram Public Library Expansion & Renovation” project. The award was included...
$800,000 donation!
It goes almost without saying, but constructing a new library building takes money – quite a bit of it. The initial designs for expanding and updating the Delavan Library indicated this would be an $11.3 million project. City studies of how this amount could be...
What’s in the box(es)?
The new library will have an assortment of fun and interesting lighting selections. Most of the lighting in the collection (book) areas is a linear type of fixture like the one pictured on the left. In the youth area, pendant lights will hang. And, in the clerestory...
Natural Light
Do you know that natural light in buildings has health benefits? Natural light certainly enhances our Vitamin D but it also enhances mood and productivity and how about positivity? Embracing natural light is a goal in our enhanced space both in the clerestory design...
Green?
What is the green material on the library build? The green material is actually a Vapor Barrier. This material is put in place prior to brick/stone construction. The vapior barrier slows moisture or blocks water vapor from migrating into the building. Once...
Meeting Room
Meeting room mock-up from our friends at FEH Design. (The viewer is looking towards the 5th street entrance.) The meeting room, when fully expanded, will seat 140 people. (There is a flexible wall between the meeting room and the children's storytime room offering...
Historic renovation
What's happening in the historic building? Renovation! Simultaneously with the expansion build, the historic building is also getting a facelift. Note the new ceiling in the photo, above. (Here, the viewer is looking east on the 2nd floor approximately where the...
Study Rooms
What is a study room? Pictured here are one of the four study rooms located in the new library. (This one is located on the west side of the building facing Fourth Street.) Three will hold 2-4 people while the third is slighty larger accomodating 2-6 people. Each...
Groundbreaking Ceremony – July 19, 2025
Pictured: Mayor Ryan Schroeder, City Common Council, Library Board of Trustees, Delavan Aram Public Library Foundation (DAPLF), and Corporate Contractors Inc. (CCI) representatives. (Thank you to CCI for the image.)
Library Expansion design team (from left): Christy Monk, Lead Architect, FEH Design; Katherine Schoofs, Asst. Director/Youth Services Librarian; Michelle Carter, Director; Linda Zell, VP Board of Trustees; and Bob Betzer, President, Board of Trustees.
Pictured (from left): Library Board President Bob Betzer; Alderperson Matt Bieser; Alderperson Calvin Square; Walworth County Administrator Mark Luberda; Mayor Ryan Schroeder; City Administrator, Brian Wilson; City Finance Director, Nick Griffin; and Alderperson and Library Board Trustee Karen Sempf.
Official Groundbreaking Shovel presented by CCI.
Pictured: DAPLF President Wayne “Ozzie” Osborn; Mayor Ryan Schroeder; Library Board President, Bob Betzer; and Friends of the Library President, Terry Yanke.
Pictured: DAPLF Executive Board Members.
Pictured (from left, front row): Alderperson Calvin Square; Alderperson Matt Bieser; Mayor Ryan Schroeder; State Director for Rural Development in Wisconsin, Andrew Iverson; Alderperson Paul Wilson; (from left, back row) City Administrator, Brian Wilson; and, Alderperson Karen Sempf.
Pictured: Executive Director Delavan-Delavan Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Malinda Obershaw and Mayor Ryan Schroeder.
Pictured: Current library staff.
Pictured: Current and Previous Library Staff
Construction equipment readying the site.
Our youngest attendees received construction hats with the library’s logo.
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