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The Jefferson County Library Foundation and Friends works to support and enrich the capabilities, resources and services of Jefferson County Public library through fundraising and advocacy efforts that benefit the community. It is a county-wide organization of volunteers dedicated to enhancing library programs and resources.
An initiation fee of $5 was charged to new patrons of the library with monthly dues of fifty cents. Citizens could instead donate five books of similar value to avoid the registration dues. [5] This early founding lay the groundwork for the Jefferson County Library, which was dedicated on August 16, 1970, as a free public library to the county. [5]
The library was established in 1913 as a library association with the generous support of the Pine Bluff Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. [2] In 2016 a flood affected the old library building. Another flood occurred in 2017 due to a faulty pump. [3] The new library opened in 2020 at a cost of $10,500,000. [6]
The Friends of the Erie County Library has just the solution for those books that no longer have a place or a space in your home.
The Jefferson County Library Cooperative (JCLC) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational consortium of public libraries in Jefferson County, Alabama. The JCLC administrative office is located at the Birmingham Public Central Library .
The Ohio History/Genealogy department is unique to the Schiappa Branch Library. Nowhere else in the Jefferson County library system will one find this information. The room is filled with books not only helping with basic genealogy techniques, but also books specific to the Steubenville and Jefferson County region that the library serves.
Construction of the library, which opened October 10, 1992, was made possible by a donation by Alvin C. and Mary Bert Gutman [7] [8] in memory of their son, Paul J. Gutman. . Paul J. Gutman died on September 25, 1990, in an airplane accident while on a business trip for Pressman-Gutman, the Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, textile converting company founded by his great-grandfather, Harry J. Pressm
The Jefferson College Library has a book collection of over 70,000 volumes. The library's collection includes print periodicals, best sellers, graphic novels, DVDs, music CDs, eBooks and audiobooks. The library is also home to the Jefferson County History Center, [ 10 ] which serves as an archive for Jefferson County.