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and brighter lighting, with the children's room moved to a newly built third floor with panoramic views of the surroundings of
Sheboygan. A quiet study room was placed atop the new second floor frontage, and fiction and audiovisual services were moved down to the first floor. The library's check-out
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During the early 1950s, the library built two branch libraries. Although
Sheboygan had had many different branches over the years, these were the first constructed to serve as library branches. The first was the Frank Stone branch attached to Cooper Elementary School on the city's north side. Frank
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In April 1987, the city had planned to put downtown including Plaza 8, under one roof. Developer John
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structure, with a large amount of vaulted concrete and brickwork defining the interior structure of the library. The main library took up the second floor, with the children's room on the first floor, and services including circulation, administration, and the headquarters for the
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From 1996 until 1998, the current library building underwent an expansion which changed the building's front from North 8th Street to
Wisconsin Avenue. The Brutalist features of the building were considerably lightened with
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The new and current 64,000 square-foot library opened in 1974. Before the opening, hundreds of high school students lugged 150,000 books from the old library to the new, one block to the west. Units of the
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Stone was the first librarian of the
Sheboygan Library Association. The second branch was named after Charles E. Broughton and was attached to Wilson Elementary School on the city's south side.
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system to a current all-RFID system which now uses several self-checkout kiosks, freeing up library staff to provide other services. Computer services, which in the 1980s were limited to
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across the street was completed, though due to the water feature and the Prange's frontage, the restored North 8th Street was a compressed two-lane road through the library block.
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