Watch Onalaska Grow!
   
5-8-08.  Progress!  The walls for the addition are up!  No, there's nothing wrong with your eyes, but taking a picture from a muddy hillside makes everything look like it's sliding downhill.
   
5-8-08.  A different perspective.
   
5-8-08.  The windows are gone. 
   
5-8-08.  Although only a few feet of space were lost when they put up the temporary wall, the change from white walls to brown makes the space seem much smaller.  Oh, but when it's finished...
   
5-2-08.  Karen Kroll, Youth Services Librarian, tries to concentrate on her work while the construction crew carries on in the background.
   
5-2-08.  First they dug the dirt out to lay the foundation and pour the walls...
   
5-2-08.  ...then they bring it back in to fill in around the foundation and walls...
   
5-2-08.  ...and then they have to move it around until they get it just where they want it.
   
4-25-08.  The windows looking onto the hillside will be taken out.  The wall will become an interior wall between the main library and the new meeting room.
   
4-25-08.  The windows have sheets of plywood leaning against them, ready to seal the openings when the windows come out.
   
4-25-08.  New plywood walls have been built in the children's area to keep out the rain, snow(?) and bugs when the outside wall comes down.. Eventually the plywood will be removed and the room will be open to the addition.
   
4-25-08.  The back of the library as seen from the hillside looking down from the high school.
   
4-25-08.  Construction workers have poured the cement that will become the back wall of the addition.
   
4-25-08.  Retaining walls define the work area at the back of the library.
   
4-18-08.  This picture was taken from the window by the reference desk with the high school in the background.  You are looking at the new meeting room.  This window will soon be gone.
   
4-18-08.  Work has started, when the weather permits.  This view is from the loading dock on the side of the building to the left of the front door.
   
Four-year-old Allison Dorshorst signs her name to a board that will be used in the new addition.  The Friends of the Onalaska Library are sponsoring the board to raise money for some extras not included in the building budget.