The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there.

It's gotten busier and busier in every aspect you can imagine, ... We're doing a good job about letting people know our story, and people are excited to come here.

They might need to drive across our property or even cut a road a mile through our property to get to their 40 acres.

We hope to come to a comfortable financing solution,

We haven't seen Provo's population jump 50 percent. It's been just a few thousand.

What do we owe this to? I think the building draws people. We have a better layout and more shelving, so the books are more approachable. It looks really sharp, and users can find things faster.

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.