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TOUR OUR NEW BUILDING
This is our new building. It stands at the beginning of the Yellow Brick Road in the Village of Chittenango. (If it looks familiar, that is because we renovated the old State Bank of Chittenango/Oneida Savings building.) Chittenango's most famous son is author L. Frank Baum who was born just a mile or so up the road from the library. Mr. Baum's most famous work is the children's classic, "The Wizard of Oz".
There are some subtle and some not so subtle nods to the "Wizard of Oz" book and 1939 movie in evidence throughout the library.
For example, just as the movie starts out in black & white and sepia,
so our front vestibule (which leads to the Children's area)
is done in shades of gray and sepia.
But once you pass through the door, the library comes alive with color.
Good witch, Mrs Stevens is manning the Children's Circ desk.
The children's library is to the left.
Straight ahead you can catch a glimpse of the adult library.
And to the right...
is the Periodical Room.
You can come in to catch up on a favorite magazine or read the morning paper here.
Walking back toward's the children's library, you pass...
the Tinman Display case.
This is the first inkling of the Oz delights to come.
In the children's section,
local artist Terri Agans has tranformed the walls with murals of Oz.
Above the stacks is a depiction of the Munchkin Landscape
On the opposite wall, a Munchkin door leads through a cottage into our Storyhour Room.
The Emerald City looms above our stacks
In the Storyhour room, the original bank vault has been turned into
the witch's castle and the flying monkey room
If you enter the library through the parking lot doors, you'll come into the Adult library.
You can see the circ desk through the stacks
To the right of the door is another quiet reading area.
What we see when we look out on the library
The adult area of the library has been kept fairly Oz-free.
Only one tribute to the movie can be seen here,
under the door to the Assistant Director's Office...
Or maybe it's a warning?
But to whom?
