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History of a library in Columbus, Georgia reaches back to 1832 when the Columbus Enquirer stated, "We have three churches, a theatre, a book store, and a circulating library." [ 2 ] This is the earliest known library in the region until after the Civil War , in 1881, when the book and music clubs of the city merged to established the Columbus ...
The library system is a member of Public Information Network for Electronic Services, or PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that serves 300 member libraries covering 146 counties of Georgia. [2] Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books. [3]
The second known library of the system, the Sylvester Public Library, is the library still intact today. The concept for this library began in 1908 by citizens of Worth, but did not come to fruition until the Sylvester Woman's Club dedicated a space and collection for public use in 1919. [7]
The first library constructed in the Northwest Georgia Regional Library System was the Calhoun-Gordon library which was constructed through efforts of the Calhoun Woman's Club in 1904. [4] The next known library was constructed in 1921 in Dalton, Georgia as part of a service organized by The Dalton Woman's Club. [5]
The Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) is the state agency for libraries in the U.S. State of Georgia and a unit of the University System of Georgia.The service was initially founded in 1996 after the inception of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), and in July 2000 moved from the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education (DTAE) to the Georgia Board of Regents and ...
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is an online public collection of documents and media about the history and culture of the state of Georgia, United States.The collection includes more than a million digitized objects from more than 200 Georgia-related collections.
The headquarters of the library system is the Terrell County Public Library in Dawson. KRLS is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia. [2] Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books. [3] The ...
The first public library in the county was opened in 1907, in Lithonia.In 1925 a larger public library was founded in Decatur, the county seat of DeKalb County.In 1952 branches of the Decatur Library were established in Brookhaven and Doraville, and the Decatur Library was renamed the Decatur-DeKalb Library. [9]