Standing behind what will be the circulation desk, Lithgow Public Library director Betsy Pohl, left, talks about where the staff might hang a portrait of library namesake Llewellyn Lithgow, as Ali Clair of GMK Construction and Property Management leads a tour Friday of the library’s temporary home in the Ballard Center on the east side of Augusta.

A portrait of Llewellyn Lithgow hangs on Friday behind the circulation desk of Lithgow Public Library in Augusta.

The former pathology laboratory is seen during a tour Friday of Lithgow Public Library’s temporary home in the Ballard Center on the east side of Augusta. While an addition is being built onto the library, it will be housed at the former laboratory, which is the former MaineGeneral Medical Center.

Lithgow Public Library director Betsy Pohl, left, and systems librarian Wynter Giddings talk about what will go where during a tour Friday of the library’s temporary home in the Ballard Center on the east side of Augusta.

A portrait of Llewellyn Lithgow hangs above Angelia Dow-Bernier as she chats with a patron Friday at the circulation desk of Lithgow Public Library in Augusta.

Lithgow Public Library director Betsy Pohl, left, Ali Clair communications director of GMK Construction and Property Management, and Lithgow systems librarian Wynter Giddings talk about the circulation desk during a tour on Friday of the library’s temporary home in the Ballard Center on the east side of Augusta.

This photo taken on Friday shows where Lithgow Public Library’s temporary home will be in the Ballard Center on the east side of Augusta. While an addition is being built onto the library, it will be housed in the former pathology laboratory of the old MaineGeneral Medical Center, which is now called the Ballard Center.

A portrait of Llewellyn Lithgow hangs behind the circulation desk on Friday at Lithgow Public Library in Augusta.