LITTLE BOSTON – The Little Boston Library will soon have new pages, bindings and a spine as the old place of learning will soon become the newest and final building in the House of Knowledge complex.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the new Little Boston Library will pitch shovels of dirt at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Soon after, construction on the library will begin, and its books will have new shelves to sit on.

“It seems to me it will do a lot to tie the whole North End community together,” said Chairman of the Tribal Council Ron Charles.

The library not only serves tribal members, but also patrons from Eglon, Hansville and other nearby communities. Currently, the library provides reading material to approximately 22,000 people.

“This bodes well for the whole North End community,” Charles said. “This will help our neighbors to know about our community as well as bring them together.”

When constructed, the $750,000 library will turn a new page and start a new chapter among the recently finished Longhouse, Career and Education Center and the Elders Center. The House of Knowledge project cost about $4.2 million, with the tribe providing about 38 percent and the rest coming from government grants and private foundations.

“This will be the final portion of the House of Learning,” said library employee Chris Eberhart. “It will connect all the different parts together.”

“Our goal was to take this area and expand our tribal campus and get it into first-rate condition,” Charles said. “We wanted to make a more inviting functional campus.”

Eberhart said she won’t miss the smaller library, which won numerous awards, including being named the best small library in the United States in 1999. The new building will boast a larger office for librarians, a community meeting space and more room.

“The size of the book collection will stay pretty much the same,” Eberhart said, noting that library visitors will have more room to negotiate the stacks.

The Little Boston Library, while being inundated with books, is also well-known for its large collection of Native American literature.

“We have a wonderful Native American book collection,” Eberhart said, adding that the new building will create improved access to those books, perhaps providing more information to the public about Native American culture.