127:, city officials and community leaders. The new location was in a building adjacent to the National Bank of Athens on East Broad Street. The grand opening was held on April 7 ; the new library contained over 1,000 books. Patrons could borrow one volume of fiction and one volume of non-fiction for two weeks. The library provided services to six schools. During the first year of operation, 13,901 books were circulated and 1,977 patrons were registered. The library held Saturday story hours for children. The following year, circulation had quadrupled and new programs were added, including a weekly radio program. After much deliberation over an alternate space over 1937, the library moved in October 1937 to the YMCA building at the corner of Lumpkin and Broad Streets.
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social services while advocating for those who have difficulties accessing services. After social work students were embedded in the library, the library staff was trained, and then library environment and policies were inspected to ensure they were trauma-informed. TILT interns began in
October 2018 and received specialized trauma training and education. Staff began training in January 2019. The project included a year-long after school program to teach leadership skills to young girls and established a peer-mentoring program at the library. The grant-funded partnership enabled the Athens-Clarke County Library to become the first specialized trauma-informed library in the state and one of a few in the nation. The program received additional funding from IMLS in 2019.
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the past, such as the annual “Green Life Expo,” which seeks to educate local businesses and families about how to reduce their carbon footprint. As part of the grant, the library partnered with local schools to create a STEM solar lab to demonstrate solar energy to children, and hosted a seminar for adults on retrofitting homes with solar panels in conjunction with the library's “Reflecting, Sharing, Learning” programming. The solar array has also been used to provide teaching resources on sustainability to the local Athens community. The solar array has been featured in local news, and may be upgraded during Fall 2021 to include a rooftop solar array if approved by Clarke County
Commissioners. If approved, it will supply 16% of the energy used by the library.
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Directors settled on a lot for a new library building on Baxter Street. In 1991, because of the city-county unification, the library was officially named the Athens-Clarke County Library. The new building opened on Baxter Street on April 27, 1992, featuring a Young Adult
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ACCL was awarded an EBSCO grant in 2017 to pay for the installation of a solar array, a “Sunshine Garden” solar garden, on its campus. The two structures are a Solar
Spotlight Curve solar power tree and a Smartflower solar flower. The library has hosted a variety of sustainability-related events in
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population. It included local advisers who guided the project to meet the needs of the Boomer population. Its aim was to provide lifelong learning opportunities for and by older, active adults, and expanding museum and library services through creative use of new technology employing live webcasts
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as a war information center. After the war, in 1947, the library Board raised $ 50,000 to purchase the Stern House and a vacant lot at the corner of
Hancock and College Avenue, next to the First Presbyterian Church. The house, built in 1830, was remodeled and furniture and equipment were donated,
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counties. Part of this assistance was the addition of a truck to serve as a
Bookmobile and the addition of a paid librarian to staff it for the first eighteen months, after which the librarian would be paid by the county. These resources served Clarke County plus 13 schools and 14 communities in
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to become a trauma-informed library through a project called Trauma
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and conduct literacy and language, English language, and vocational classes. This grant led to the creation of the
Pinewoods Spanish Language Branch, Biblioteca y Centro Educativo de la Comunidad Pinewoods, the following year in 2009. The library was awarded a second National Leadership Grant in
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The Baxter Street building was remodeled in April 2013 to add 19,000 square feet to the library, adding space to the
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Challenge Grant. The endowment is still active as of 2021. The endowment has assisted in building additions like the Appleton Auditorium, as supported by a matching grant in February 2012.
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The Athens-Clarke Branch moved again in 1970 to Dougherty Street. In this location, the Athens-Clarke County Library gained a Talking Books Center in 1975. Talking Books was a part of the
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In March 1936, the Athens Woman's Club expanded and renamed the library the Athens Public Library. The Library Board of Trustees worked with the Library Commission,
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2010, again partnering with Lyndon House Arts Center. This grant funded the outreach program "The Boomers: Reflecting, Sharing, Learning" which targeted the aging
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