The new do-it-yourself space launches this Saturday.

Attend a community meeting or fill out an online survey.

Watch it then provide feedback.

They will submit two plans each: One for a stand-alone library and one for a mixed-use building with additional floors.

DCPL said “no decisions have been made on the type or the extent of the renovations or additions to the library.”

The new facility at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library contains contains a 3-D printer, an Espresso Book Machine, and several meeting spaces outfitted with some of the newest productivity technology.

The city’s public libraries will see a big boost under a new budget being proposed today by Mayor Vince Gray, with money being set aside for the renovation of the central branch and funds allocated for extending hours of operation at neighborhood libraries.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library is boxy and dark, but a group of architects want to cut a hole in the middle to let light in and add new amenities to attract more users to the iconic downtown building.

Famed modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born on this day 126 years ago, but his birthday celebration won’t be worth much locally.

An Urban Land Institute panel that was charged with figuring out what do with the District’s aging Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library released its final report yesterday, and it says much the same as what it hinted late last year—the city should consider shrinking the central library and adding new tenants to the iconic downtown building.