Gateway Library, Mesa’s 1st new full-service library in 30 years, opens this weekend
Gateway Library, Mesa’s first new full-service public library in 30 years, is set to open this weekend.
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PHOENIX – Mesa’s first new full-service public library in 30 years is set to open this weekend.
Gateway Library will debut Saturday at 5036 S. Eastmark Parkway in southeast Mesa.
A grand opening celebration with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a variety of family-friendly activities runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The new library will close for the day after the grand opening event and begin normal operating hours on Monday.
What to expect at Gateway Library in Mesa
The new 28,000-square-foot library features a digital art wall, THINKspot makerspace, teen lounge, children’s area and outdoor plaza.
It also has a sensory room for neurodivergent individuals, a nursing room for mothers and multiple outdoor spaces for programming and visitor use.
While the building was still under construction last year, it was awarded a Library Interior Design Award from the Commercial Interior Design Association and the American Library Association.
Gateway Library is the Mesa Public Library system’s fourth full-service facility, joining the Main, Red Mountain and Dobson Ranch branches. The city also operates the Read Runner Bookmobile and the self-service Mesa Express Library at Brady Park.
Like the Express Library, the Gateway Library will offer hold lockers where patrons can pick up books and other materials 24/7.
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Mesa has grown 76% over the last 30 years and we're supposed to celebrate that they built one new library in this time period? Then they build it in a newly sprawled area instead of serving already established neighborhoods who have to travel 5-10 miles to get to a library, only to find that it is packed with a majority of right-wing propaganda books and theocracy. (example: no copies of "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut or The Iron Heel by Jack London, but they have hard copies of 57 books by Bill O ' Reilly and even 2 by Tucker Carlson who only "wrote" 5 books).
Mesa can do better.