Vigo County Public Library

Vigo County Public Library
Country United States
Type Public library
Established 1882
Location Terre Haute, IN
Coordinates Coordinates: 39°27′50″N 87°24′27″W / 39.4640°N 87.4076°W / 39.4640; -87.4076
Branches 1 (West Terre Haute, Indiana)
Access and use
Circulation 693,072 (2014)[1]
Other information
Budget $6,091,279 (2014)[1]
Director Kristi Howe[2]
Website www.vigo.lib.in.us

The Vigo County Public Library serves residents of Terre Haute and Vigo County, Indiana. A tax-payer funded public library, it has been in operation since 1882, when the existing library was purchased by local school trustees from the Terre Haute Library Association. Prior to this, there were multiple libraries in the Terre Haute area operated by various township and private organizations. When a state law in 1881 connected the establishment of free public libraries to common schools in cities with more than ten thousand residents, the Terre Haute Board of School Trustees organized the current set-up.[3] In 1906, the library was moved to a new building and named the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial Library.[4] A West Branch was opened in 1961.[4] The current main branch held its grand opening in 1979.

Library cards are free to those who live, own property, or go to school or college in Vigo County. In addition to a wide-ranging collection of books, newspapers, and magazines, materials for local history and genealogy, reference help, public computers, children's story times, and other typical public library services, the library offers interlibrary loan and downloadable audiobooks, eBooks, videos, music, and magazines. The library hosts crackerbarrel meetings with state senators and representatives during the legislative session, political debates during election seasons, and other similar community meetings.

References

  1. 1 2 "Vigo County Public Library 2014 Annual Report". VCPL. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "About Us". VCPL. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Terre Haute public library accession records
  4. 1 2 History of the Public Library in Vigo County, 1816-1975
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.