The Fairwood Library will have its official ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate its newly expanded design this Saturday, Dec. 6.

The event is at 9:30 a.m., at 17009 140th Ave. SE, Renton.

The library has been under construction since Oct. 2013 to expand the library to 20,000 square feet. The additional 5,000 square feet added additional rooms, an enlarged children’s area and meeting spaces. There are new skylights to allow better visibility in and out of the building. Also new are automated materials for handling book returns, which the library did not have previously.

The community is invited to attend the ribbon-cutting and the doors will open at 10 a.m.

The original library was built in the 1980s.