TINTON FALLS — Knocked aside, excluded, and sometimes just outright ignored, the tiny borough library keeps plugging away at its decade-long attempt to secure new, larger digs.

Library supporters and their architect are scheduled to appear before the Borough Council at an upcoming meeting to discuss an ongoing feasibility study.

The study, paid for by a state grant, is being conducted to determine the best size and composition of a new library building — something for which supporters have been trying to drum up support for the better part of 10 years.

The council meeting is scheduled for April 1.

"It just figures, doesn't it? April Fool's Day," said Rosemarie Tunnicliffe, library director.

Representatives of Dennis Kowal Architects of Somerville are scheduled to talk about progress toward a draft plan of a expanded library building.

Tunnicliffe said supporters are eyeing Tinton Avenue property between the Department of Public Works building and the new borough hall —roughly where the old borough hall building currently sits.

The library, which has occupied the same space since 1961, last year lent out 70,000 items to the borough's more than 17,000 residents. Library use since 2001 has increased 63 percent. The library receives an average of 126 visitors each day, but has accommodated up to 400, Tunnicliffe said.

The 3,000-square-foot donated house that serves as the library has long since run out of storage space. Its only two Internet-connected computers are so in demand that staff has set a 20-minute time limit per person on each, and its burgeoning kids summer-reading program routinely has to be held outside —weather permitting —under a borough-donated tent for lack of space inside.

It will be up to the Borough Council on how, when, or if, they will support building a new structure.

There are detractors, however. Several at previous Borough Council meetings have spoken against a new library, objecting chiefly to incurring the cost.