A huge crowd turnout Saturday afternoon for the grand re-opening of the High River Library.

Head librarian Deb Gardner says after more than two years away it was a big occasion.

"It's exciting for me to see their excitement and to feel that they're home< Think they're pleased with the work and are just glad to be home," she says.

Gardner says the flood did bring some improvements to the building.

"The lighting is better, the heating is probably better, it's certainly safer for any future incidents, circulation, the layout is better, they're more programming space and it's certainly brighter," Gardner says.

The Chair of the library board Diane Porter says it's an impressive building to see, but it's what you don't see that's really been improved and she's thrilled with the new programming space.

"We proved in the Sprung structure that you can house your collection almost anywhere and people will come, but the programming, we now have that room and we have our little kids, Books for Babies, and Rhythm and Rhyme and Toddler Time, they can all come back here now," Porter says.

Mayor Craig Snodgrass cut the ribbon, joking the library was a good place to learn about things like facebook, something he thinks he should have done earlier to stay out of trouble with some of the positions he's taken and posted there.