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Readers in Maplewood will soon have a sleek new library that blends the world of books and nature through massive glass walls. The township’s new Maplewood Memorial Library is slated to open this fall after two years of construction, library officials said. The $22 million library is being built on the same footprint as the old library from 1955 at 51 Baker St. in the Essex County township, said library director Sarah Lester. “Maplewood is a community of readers, and is a very diverse, culturally-rich community, and I think that’s what we were really going for — a building that reflected that …