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By June 2017, the catalog consisted of books from 284 library facilities in 143 counties across the U.S. state of Georgia with a collection size of 10.6 million items, all of which are searchable by anyone with a PINES library card which can be obtained free of charge from any PINES-participating library. [3]
The Middle Georgia Regional Library System is a library system which serves the counties of Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Macon, Twiggs and Wilkinson in the U.S. state of Georgia. Patrons receive a PINES library card.
Patrons who do not qualify for a free card may choose to pay an annual fee of $25.00 or a semi-annual fee of $12.50 and enjoy all the benefits of a free card. Patrons may use their PINES card at any PINES library to checkout, renew, or return items. Patrons may request items from any PINES library to be sent to their home library at no cost
The headquarters of the system is the Rome-Floyd County Library, located in Rome, Georgia. Patrons of the library receive a PINES library card. This card may be used at any of the 275 libraries affiliated with the program across Georgia, as well as the six branches in the Sara Hightower Regional Library System, and is open to all Georgia residents.
The earliest records for a library in the region date to March 11, 1810, where an active Library Society was founded by a citizen named Sterling Elder. Not much else is known of this library system, save for references of the society meetings in the newspaper at the time, the Athens Gazette .
In 1945, nearby Catoosa County Library in Catoosa County joined with the county of Dalton to create the Dalton Regional Library. The main branch of the Dalton library was moved to a new location, the W.C. Martin House in 1948. [6] In 1957 and 1958 the Gordon County Library and Murray County Library also joined the growing system. [7]
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 Rossville Public Library was organized in 1942 as a product of the Works Progress Administration. Upon completion of the library, neighboring LaFayette, Georgia's library board approached the library in Rossville to request a regional library system be constructed between the two branches. This was the first iteration of the Cherokee ...