PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A city in northern Oregon has been reduced to using a van as its sole library after a blueprint mix-up shut down a newly built $1.2 million facility.
The new library had been open for less than a month before the wall it shares with City Hall was found to be a fire hazard.
It closed in June, but the city and library district haven’t been able to agree on how to share a common area between the two buildings. So Irrigon, a city of nearly 2,000 people just south of Washington state, will store its 2,500 books in a van in a return to the days when the library operated out of a school bus before the permanent, if defective, structure was built.
The East Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/1rhKSsZ) the City of Irrigon and the Oregon Trail Library District are negotiating.
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