The Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System (MCCLS) is a

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system serving

Colquitt County, Georgia Colquitt County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,898. The county seat is Moultrie. The county was created on February 25, 1856, and is named for Walter Terry Colquitt, a U.S. senator. Co ...

. The headquarter of the library is located in

Moultrie, Georgia Moultrie is the county seat and largest city of Colquitt County, Georgia, United States. It is the third largest city in Southwest Georgia, behind Thomasville and Albany. As of the 2010 census, Moultrie's population was 14,268. It was originall ...

. MCCLS is a member of

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, a program of the

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that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia. Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books. The library is also serviced by

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, a program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online". This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. It also boasts over 10,000 journal titles in full text.

History

Carnegie Library

In 1906 the Commissioner of the Colquitt County Board of Education petitioned

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for funds to construct a public library to serve the county. On December 3 that same year Carnegie granted a donation of $10,000 to be used to library construction on the terms the city pay an annual maintenance fee of $1,000 towards keeping the building in good condition. A lot on the corner of West Broad and Crawford streets was purchased by library trustees and designated at the site for the library. The blueprints for the building called for a mixture of different architectural designs based primarily off Colonial Revival. In addition to space for the library's collection an auditorium was included on the second floor to "provide for meetings of a social and literary character in connection with a library association." The building was used at a library until it was sold in 1973 to be renovated into law offices. In 1982 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. With .

County library system

As library service grew in Moultrie a bookmobile service was launched in the mid-1950s to increase outreach for rural areas. By 2016 this service was reaching over 1,200 people each year from municipalities far from the county library. Owing to a lack of space in the Carnegie Library plans began in the 1960s to construct a new, larger library complex. Known today as the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library the new building was opened in 1964. The library is home to a second branch, the Doerun Municipal Library, which is located in

Doerun, Georgia Doerun is a city in Colquitt County, Georgia, United States. The population was 774 at the 2010 census. History A post office called Doerun has been in operation since 1895. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1899 as the "Tow ...

Library systems in neighboring counties

Worth County Library System The Worth County Library System is a public library system serving the county of Worth, Georgia, United States. There is one branch in the system, the Sylvester-Margaret Jones Library located in Sylvester. In 2016 the library archived the entire ...

to the north. *

Coastal Plain Regional Library System The Coastal Plain Regional Library System (CPRL) is a public library system serving the counties of Ben Hill, Berrien, Cook, Irwin, Tift, and Turner in the U.S. state of Georgia. The Coastal Plains Headquarters Library is located in Tifton. CRP ...

to the north east. *

Brooks County Public Library The Brooks County Public Library is a single branch public library system serving county of Brooks, located in Georgia. The library is located in Quitman, Georgia. The library is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service ...

to the south east. *

Thomas County Public Library System The Thomas County Public Library System (TCPLS) is a public library system serving Thomas County, Georgia. The headquarters of the system is the Thomas County Public Library located in Thomasville, Georgia. There is one Carnegie library in the s ...

to the south west. *

De Soto Trail Regional Library System The De Soto Trail Regional Library System is a public library system serving the counties of Mitchell, Baker and Early, in the state Georgia. The headquarters of the library system is the Camilla Public Library located in Camilla, Georgia. is a ...

to the west.

References

External links

PINES Catalog
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