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Regular Council Minutes September 20, 2010 Page 3 families and really even preschool families. Literacy, the ability to read really starts before school and when you see the excitement of a parent and children going to the library for the first time, one of the things that was amazing to me is they can take out 50 books. Kids can. And it's really exciting and that whole habit of a family reading and a child reading, the further that facility is away, the harder it is for them to go and so it's, as I talk to especially kindergarten, first and second grade families, they talk about that preschool experience, literacy experience at the Library and then of course the life-long leaming. I would also tell you that no matter what people say about, well you can get everything from the internet and you really don't need the Library anymore, what students find out is they actually need it more. If you have what I would ca11 an enhanced facility, where there was more space for students to do research, they would really utilize it more. One of the, I don't want to say complaints, challenges for high school and middle school students is that if you go to the Library right now, it's pretty packed. I will go up there at night. It's very tight. So a new facility where things are spread out would mean, I believe, that more students would come. What you have to realize is that after school's out, the student can't come back up to the high school library. If they want to study in the evening and, let's say there's a lot of students that have kids in the household, they may want to go to the Library to do research. So it's very helpful to have that and I would not want to see the Library outside the community. It would be great to keep it in Mayfield Village. So, from the School's point of view, having an additional building that we would have some flexible space that we can use down the road when that became available, that's a plus, but I would also say that I really want to keep the facility here. I commend the consideration. Council President Buckholtz thanked Dr. Price. Dr. Parker stated to Dr. Price that he had the opporlunity to be in Solon the other day and noticed that when you walk out of the Solon Library and walk to the corner across the street, you are essentially right next to the upper school and the school building's right there. If you could give me your thoughts and input because you touched on a lot of important issues that deal with access and utilization and such. How valuable do you think it is that the Library is located so close to the School first of all such that kids could actually walk directly from the School to the Library and use it and stay there to get their work done as well as the locahon of the Library as it relates to the surrounding communities that it's directly serving in light of Highland Heights, Mayfield Heights, as well as Mayfield Village where it's located as opposed to being closer toward the Lake County border over there and the lack of easy access for students and neighborhood people there. Would you say that it would be better to have it closer to the School or not? Forget the fact that there's a building that's becoming available, but if you had your best scenario, would you rather have it closer to the School or fiuther away where it's not accessible like that? Dr. Price responded, conceptually, I know when this was first looked at, I'm talking about when the Library was built, I am sure at that time it was considered, this is so great. A student can walk right out that high school door right to the Library and start studying. In effect, when the high school staff and myself, when we've talked with the Library, one of the challenges for them, probably the challenges for them has been many parents will say to the students, go to the Library and wait for me to pick you up and it was almost like a, I don't want to say a bus station, but there would be students