Construction on new Bigfork library makes strides toward summer opening
Renderings of the front façade of the new Bigfork library. (photo provided)
Joe, Patti and Monica Pastor stand in front of what will become the children's section in the new Bigfork library building. (Taylor Inman/Daily Inter Lake)
What will become the community meeting room can be seen on the left. Toward the back of the room will be the makerspace area. (Taylor Inman/Daily Inter Lake)
The entrance of the new Bigfork library, still under renovation and expected to open to the public sometime this summer. (Taylor Inman/Daily Inter Lake)
The children's area will encompass the right side of the building. Toward the back of the room, the windows are already in place. (Taylor Inman/Daily Inter Lake)
Joe, Patti and Monica Pastor of the AGL Foundation stand in front of the new Bigfork library building, which is under renovation and expected to open sometime this summer. (Taylor Inman/Daily Inter Lake)
Renderings for the new Bigfork library show the circulation desk positioned in front of the community meeting room. Behind it, part of the makerspace area is visible. (photo provided)
Renderings for the right side of the building show the children's area of the new library. (photo provided)
Renderings of the new makerspace area. (photo provided)
A rendering shows the outdoor amphitheater that will be built behind the library. (photo provided)
Another rendering of the backside of the new library, this time looking from in front of the children's area windows toward the amphitheater. (photo provided)
A rendering of the entrance to the new Bigfork library. (photo provided)
A rendering of the teen zone, which will be on the left side of the room as patrons walk out of the backdoor of the new library. (photo provided)
Rendering of a lounge area that will be in front of the community meeting room. (photo provided)
A rendering of a donor wall and the location of the bathrooms, toward the left front side of the building. (photo provided)
Monica Pastor used to walk herself down to storytime at the Bigfork library back when she was a kid running around the village in the 1980s.
“At the time, Bigfork was lovely and fine, but tiny,” Pastor said. “The library was a sort of portal to other places and other things — where you could go to hear about different worlds.”
The library made a big impression on Pastor and her sister Alicia, who went on to become an elementary school teacher, reading specialist and advocate for early childhood literacy. Pastor, an artist involved in many community projects, has art and jewelry galleries in Bigfork and Whitefish, and taught art history for 10 years at Flathead Valley Community College.
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