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An iron fence encircling the relandscaped front plaza and a Spanish Renaissance–styled interior highlight the $32-million expansion and restoration of Houston Public Library’s Julia Ideson Library, home of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.

Robin Ball helps her homeschooled daughter Madison, age 9, work on making her own putz house ornament, a miniature Christmas decoration, at Newport News (Va.) Public Library System’s Main Street branch December 8.

Richland County (S.C.) Public Library board Chair Kirby Shealy (left), US Department of Agriculture Rural Development Office Program Director Jesse Risher, and RCPL Executive Director Melanie Huggins make way for construction of the $1.6 million renovation and expansion of RCPL’s Eastover branch December 7.

Devon Crape (left) and McKenzie Johnson show off their prizes after beating the competition in a coffee house–styled Teen Poetry Slam at Newport News (Va.) Public Library System’s Grissom branch November 19.