The Coweta Public Library System (CPLS) is a group of four

public libraries A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also civil servants. There are five fundamenta ...

Coweta County, Georgia Coweta County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of Metro Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the population was 146,158. The county seat is Newnan. Coweta County is included in the Atlanta-S ...

, United States. The branches serve the towns of Grantville,

Newnan Newnan is a city in Metro Atlanta and the county seat of Coweta County, Georgia, about southwest of Atlanta. Its population was 42,549 at the 2020 census, up from 33,039 in 2010. History Newnan was established as county seat of Coweta Coun ...

, and Senoia. The Coweta County Public Library uses the

interlibrary loan Interlibrary loan (abbreviated ILL, and sometimes called interloan, interlending, document delivery, document supply, or interlibrary services, abbreviated ILS) is a service where patrons of one library can borrow materials and receive photocopies ...

system to share books between its branches. Members of the county library may check out and return books to any location and have access to over 180,000 books in the library collection. The loaning of books can be completed through a physical or digitized format through the reading app
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History

The first public library in Coweta County was a Carnegie library funded by

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Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...

in 1901. Accordingly, a teenager in the town of Newnan wrote to Carnegie requesting funds for a public library, and he provided a grant for $10,000 with the condition the town continue to pay for the running of the library after construction. Construction began August 4, 1903 and concluded the following year. In 1987 the Carnegie library was replaced by a new building constructed on Hospital Road in Newnan. This new branch, the A. Mitchell Powell, Jr. Library, was constructed to modernize the city library and provide more space for book stacks, meeting areas, and public computers. By 2007 the original Carnegie library was again vacant and a movement grew to bring the library back to the downtown area. By 2009 after renovations to the building the Carnegie library was re-purposed as a meeting area and pseudo-library with a non-circulating collection of books, magazines, and newspapers.

Branches

Library systems in neighboring counties

Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System The Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System is a network of public libraries serving the City of Atlanta and Fulton County, both in the U.S. state of Georgia. The system is administered by Fulton County. The system is composed of the Atlanta Centr ...

to the north * West Georgia Regional Library to the northwest *

Flint River Regional Library System The Flint River Regional Library System (FRRLS) is a collection of nine public library, public libraries in the Atlanta metropolitan area of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The library serves the residents of the following six counties: Butts Coun ...

to the east *

Pine Mountain Regional Library System The Pine Mountain Regional Library System is a group of seven public libraries that serve Meriwether, Upson, Talbot, and Taylor counties in Georgia, United States. The library regional headquarters is located in Manchester, Georgia. Pine Mounta ...

to the south *

Troup-Harris Regional Library The Troup-Harris Regional Library (THRL) is a public library system serving the counties of Troup County, Georgia, Troup, and Harris County, Georgia, Harris, Georgia (U.S. State), Georgia, United States. The central library, LaGrange Memorial, is ...

to the south west

References

External links

CPLS catalog
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