CCPL News : Possible Relocation of La Plata Library
Date: 8/3/2005

The following article appeared in the Wednesday, August 3rd edition of the Maryland Independent:

Ask me anything | Library on the move?

“There is a rumor afoot that Civista [Medical Center] will take over the corner occupied by the [La Plata branch of the] Charles County library around 2007-08. Any truth to this?”
John C. Wilhelm, La Plata

Hospital and library officials aren’t ruling out such a development, but they say it won’t happen that quickly.
Civista’s ongoing $79 million expansion already spurred the relocation of one of its longtime neighbors: La Plata’s town hail. The library sits nearby on county-owned land at the intersection of Charles Street and Garrett Avenue.
“Our current major expansion and renovation of the medical center will take us well into 2007,” Darlene Fairfax. spokeswoman for Civista Health, wrote in an e-mail. “The library site might be a possible direction for our future expansion as part of the long-range planning for our campus, beyond 2007 or 2008, but at this time we have no plans to acquire or develop the library site.”
Built in 1966, the La Plata branch was the first building in Charles County constructed specifically as a public library, said Emily Ferren, director of the county’s library system.
“If it becomes necessary for the hospital to expand, we would be willing to relocate,” Ferren said. She added she has discussed the move with the county commissioners, who indicated it might happen, but probably not within the next two or three years.