Archive for month: March, 2015

Historical Annual Reports

Annual reporting of the library's collection, its Board members, annual circulation data and more from the library's archives, 1896 to the present.

Board Minutes 1894 – 1911

Library Board minutes from 1894 - 1911

Current Building

In August, 1973, John Morris, president of the Library Board, presented to the City Council a request to authorize hiring an architect to draw plans for a new library.

The Early Years

On December 28, 1859, a group of men met at the home of Dr. David H. Ketchum and formed a library association with an election of trustees that included Thomas Barland. The first librarian was Henry C. Putnam.

Board Minutes 1912 – 1924

Library Board minutes from 1912-1924

Library Speaks

Scripts from a weekly radio program, "The Library Speaks" broadcast on WEAU radio in 1938.