It includes a 255-seat multi-purpose room, children’s, pre-teen and adult services, a smart board room, art gallery and cafe with indoor and outdoor seating areas. As the headquarters it includes: data central services and administrative offices on a second mezzanine level. A central feature is a sculptural stair that overlooks the reading room with a two-story glass wall with a view to the garden.
The building’s high efficiency systems are innovative to both Utah and to library facilities. An underground ice tank systems chills water at night, when energy use and costs are lowest. Then during the day, the building’s HVAC system pulls air across the underground ice to cool the building during the day.
