Artist's rendition of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Woods Run renovation.

The renovations won't begin until next week but already Margaret Urzua is dreading them.

Walls will fall. Dust will coat everything. Books and computers will have to be stored.

The good news is the six months of construction won't be taking place at the Brighton Heights home of Mrs. Urzua and her husband, Rene, but at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Woods Run location.

But that's also the bad news.

The library, on the border of Brighton Heights and Marshall-Shadeland, will be closed until summer for a $2 million makeover that will transform the 42-year-old building inside and out.

The Urzuas, who are retired, live just a 10-minute walk away. In addition to its books and music, they use the library's Internet connection and she teaches a Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council student there.

"We use this place a lot," Mrs. Urzua said. "It's almost like an additional room in the house. This is going to cause a major rescheduling event in our lives."

It will also inconvenience the more than 55,500 other people who visit the library each year -- it's the fifth most-visited location among the Carnegie Library's 20 neighborhood sites.

When the dust settles, the Woods Run library will have designated teen and children's areas, a centralized customer service area and a new drive-through book drop. Chain-link fencing on windows will come off and the imposing brick walls that now mark the library's entrance will be replaced with windows.

"I think a lot of people are going to be taken aback" by the changes, said manager Ryan Hughes.

Mr. Hughes and the library's other two employees will work at other Carnegie Library locations during the construction.

Woods Run is the seventh Carnegie Library to be renovated, and the first on the North Side. Renovations have already occurred at the main site in Oakland and at branch libraries in Downtown, Brookline, Squirrel Hill, Hazelwood and Homewood.

A Carnegie Library spokeswoman said all branches eventually will be renovated or relocated to new sites in their neighborhoods.

The Woods Run location will close at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The day will be marked with a cake for patrons.