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Clliiiifitiitficrii' Waterloo's head librarian, Joanne Tate, said in an inter- view last week that due to a recent library survey, the library board has asked Waterloo councul to hire a consultant lo look into the feasibility of expanding the libers mam branch, Study will determine fate of Waterloo library Tim Gardner Ckmnicle Staf The Waterloo public library board likely won't decide on whether it should expand the library's main branch as opposed to building a new branch until 1999. The survey, pan of a library needs assessment report, was presented lo council by library oirioals at a commu- tee-of-the-whole meeting last week. Of the 600 people who responded to the survey, 417 WA‘I'ERJ 00 F! WATT .rrmw?.1, people or 77 per cent favored expansion of the library's main branch over construe tion of a new branch some- "Depending on how long the study takes, " probably will form pan of our capital where else in the city Joanne Tate budget proposal for 1999 - the IO-year sequence any- way," Tate said, when asked when the consultant's report would be completed. However when asked if the library board would agree to expand the library's main branch instead cl building a new branch elsewhere if the consultants report said expansion of the main branch was feasible, Tate said that would depend on Waterloo council, “It gets to be a political decision then, I thk, doesnt it -- that it goes to how court- cil feels about supporting cen- tralizing versus dispersing things," Tate said, “And certainly people are interested in the uptown and (Comma! on paget5) One-year-old Sarah Breen and her dad Paul enjoyed the beautiful weather Sunday by spending the afternoon at Waterloo Park. Sarah was all smiles as her dad gave a push on the SWINGIN’ BABY New we IOOIucagsc some rcspodcnls gave multiple answers. This dun illustrates the (up [ttrl answas. X 0 w _ C? Z th _ _ m ' w C a ' w i to), LT. c m t a 8 Jil ie, T Lu w Lu < m _ [ 2. m, a; .4 2 tk T “J 41%) _ a -..J - U _ = Q N w " I the/',tQ ' - u < it a n i a. a F. © w < w V 3-5; a < T l m f F" -fl, 3 E w 3 i'itgi, 3 as:- It; "_, so: '/',, 29 = / 5247(3‘2é, LIBRARY SERVICES TO PROTECT Medical school would attract more doctors, says head of medicine academy Dr, Greg Flynn sad tn an interview last Thursday although he was relatively pleased with preliminary recommendations con- cermng the future delivery of health care services in Waterloo Region released by the Health Services Restructuring Commis» sion last Thursday, the recommendations do little to attract doc- tors to the area. Tim Gardner - Chronicle Staff The president of the Kstchener-Waterloo Academy of Medicine wants a satellite medical school established In the Twin Clues 10 help attract doctors to the region. Kitchener-Waterloo IS currently short approximately 20-25 family doctors. Flynn said, "I believe that we need m Kitchener-Waterloo to have the mm- (Continued on page 2) 885-5090 In a tecetgt survey, patrons of the Watedoo public library were asked what services they felt were most important. The percentages add up to mom than VOLVb