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The Cherry Hill Public Library in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States is a Township's owned municipal building. The Library is overseen by the Library Board of Trustees and run by The Library Director. Originally called ''The Cherry Hill Free Public Library'', the word "Free" was dropped from the title in 2003. The current library building was completed in December 2004 to replace a 1966 structure just northeast of the same location. In old aerial images of the area, the double-diamonds with the brown roof structure and grassy lot are the old Library before demolition. The pad to the southwest of the old library was the site of Richman's Ice Cream before its demolition; and this site has become the site of the new Library building. At , Cherry Hill's newest library is among the largest municipal libraries in South Jersey. ==Facility history== Originally located in a storefront at Ellisburg Circle Shopping Center (at Route 70 and Route 41-Kings Highway), in the current location spanning both the Post Office and Blockbuster Video, the Cherry Hill Free Public Library moved 1/4 mile northeast in 1966 into a building at 1100 Kings Highway North. The then-futuristic building, designed by architect Malcolm Wells, incorporated unusual design elements, including the cataloguing and administrative offices located in its massive concrete bunker basement, concealed from public view. By the late 1990s, the Wells building was deemed by the Board to be overcrowded, difficult to maintain due to roof leaks and other infrastructure problems, and too expensive to expand, notably due to a lack of parking; so the Library Board of Directors commissioned a new design. Groundbreaking for the new Library was in December 2003 on the former Richman's Ice Cream site, which adjoins the southwestern edge of the former Library site; with the Wells building then being demolished to expand the parking area. While the new library building was constructed, Cherry Hill Library members were served via interlibrary agreements by libraries in neighboring Moorestown and Haddonfield. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cherry Hill Public Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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