Wayland Free Public LibraryLogo Design Contest

We are a well-supported medium-sized library in an affluent community. We pride ourselves on great customer service and keeping abreast of technology that relates to library services.

We want the logo to look vibrant and fresh. The Library Trustees would prefer to leave color choice up to the designer. The staff had a preference for colors in the blue-green range. Our current reddish/brown web page colors seem old fashioned to us although we don’t mind the turquoise color, which is on the walls of our historic rotunda

We want a mark, but we are not opposed to have accompanying words. We DON'T necessarily want a book in the logo, but if we have one, we prefer something stylized like these:

We like the Darien logo and what is written about their “brand” at the link below. This is the type of brand we wish to have as well:
http://www.geissbuhler.com/31263/236648/brand-identities/darien-library
We like the way the Darien logo has BOTH a mark and the name. They can use the mark separately if desired.

There are other ideas in the comments below.

Suggestions:
-city made of books

If using book in design we like abstracted and stylized and abstracted books like the Darien logo - rather than a realistic version,

We like playful and colorful as well - see uploaded images.

Open to any other ideas.