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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 25, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ,.. <br />SUBJECT• Outside Drive-by Book Drop at Main Library <br />DEPARTMENT: Library & Asset Management <br />Services (AMS) <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Analysis of Book Drop Options <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Lucinda Munger, Library, 919-245-2528 <br />Pam Jones, AMS, 919-245-2652 <br />Jeff Thompson, AMS, 919-245-2658 <br />PURPOSE: To provide information regarding a "drive-by" book drop at the Main Library in <br />Hillsborough, as requested by a local resident. <br />BACKGROUND: In January 2010, a resident of Orange County approached Library staff <br />regarding the opportunity to provide a `drive-by' book drop at the Main County Library located <br />on the West Campus in Hillsborough. Staff responded to the resident citing the development <br />planning process that had taken place during the initial design steps of 2007. Library staff <br />would have welcomed this option; however, the location of the Main Library and the constraints <br />due to the in-town location with the accompanying safety issues did not make it a feasible <br />option. <br />The request by this resident fora `drive-by' book drop was forwarded in June 2011 to include <br />the Library Director along with the County Manager and Board of Commissioners. The County <br />Manager, Asset Management Services (AMS) Department Director and Library Director met <br />and walked the property in June 2011 and determined that there was only one site that could be <br />utilized as a possible `drive-by' book drop location. That location at the Eno River Parking Deck <br />entrance is currently a curbed landscaped area with a crepe myrtle tree and other minimal <br />landscaping. Based on the suggested location, Library and AMS staff have investigated this <br />request and offer the attached analysis for the Board's information. <br />In the new library facility, complaints regarding ease of library use have concerned public <br />parking and the internal book drop. inserts that were difficult to navigate. f shpuld be noted that <br />tfie Library his received no_ofher comments l complaints concerning` an outside', drive-by~ book <br />drop: Currently patrons have created their .own workaround by temporarily stopping on <br />Margaret Lane in front of the library with their vehicle parking lights flashing, getting out and <br />