It is a rare day when you can be loud in a library.

Saturday, in La Conner, was one of those days. The new La Conner Swinomish Library on Morris Street was the site of what was fondly dubbed "organized chaos that morning and afternoon." Noise, laughter and joy filled the spacious new facility, a long sought gleaming addition to the town's landscape.

Enthusiasm was the word of the day, as it had been since Thursday when children, parents and grandparents began pitching in to move books from the old La Conner Regional Library a block away into the new structure, with its stunning outdoor s...