Durham Library Trustees will meet with the Town Council on Monday, Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Town Council Chambers to discuss building and funding a new library.

For seven years, the town library has been renting temporary quarters in a storefront next to Zyla's in the Mill Road Plaza, the same shopping plaza that's home to The Bagelry and The Durham Marketplace, for $51,000 a year. The annual appropriation for the library in the town budget is $60,000; library fund-raising covers another $30,000, which the town further matches up to $30,000.

According to Laura Matheny, Children's and Youth Services Librarian, several properties have been mentioned in passing as possible locations for a new library, including land behind the Durham Town Office and the Smitty's Route 108 Sunoco parcel.

"The library finds its current space is inadequate and fiscally unmanageable and would urge all Durham citizens to show support for a new home for the library that is fiscally responsible, well located, and large enough to serve the citizens of Durham," Matheny wrote in a letter to library patrons.

The public is invited to listen to the discussion on Aug. 16. A public hearing will be held on Monday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m.