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The Leon County Public Library was established in May 1955 and the first Leon County free public library opened its doors on March 21, 1956, in 5,000 square feet of The Columns, one of the oldest remaining antebellum homes in the Leon County area, and located at Park and Adams. Close to 5,000 volumes were on its shelves.
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The Washington County Public Library, also known as the Chipley Library, is located at 1444 Jackson Avenue in Chipley, Florida. [4]The Chipley Library suffered severe flooding [5] during Hurricane Sally, taking on nearly eight inches of water [6] and causing the branch to lose nearly all of the books and materials that were located on the bottom shelves.
ALIS, or "Automated Library Information System" was the first computerized circulation system used by the Palm Beach County Library System and it was launched in February 1983. [21] This was also the same time period in which the system began its Mail-a-Book program, which expanded to include more northern county residents in 1984. [ 22 ]
The David S. Walker Library was a private subscription library in Tallahassee, Florida. It was organized as the University Library in 1883. It was Tallahassee's first library. [2] [3] It is now a historic library building named for Governor David S. Walker, the eighth governor of Florida, who served from 1865 through 1868. [4]
The library was founded as an independent volunteer-run library after the county stopped bookmobile services in the 1980s. The library was eventually merged into the West Florida Public Libraries System, before leaving the system in 2006 with the other Santa Rosa County library branches to create the Santa Rosa County Library System. [2] [6]
The James Madison Institute (known as "The Columns") was the first home of the Leon County Free Public Library. The Carnegie Library of Tallahassee provided library services to the black community before desegregation. It was the first and only public library in Tallahassee until 1955.
On September 10, 1941, the building was repurposed solely as a library, [3] and was renamed the Bay County Public Library. In 1960 the soon-to-be Northwest Regional Library System consisted of the Bay County Public Library, a bookmobile, as well as the McMullin Library. Later that same year, in September, the Bay County Public Library became ...