Jefferson County Library Cooperative

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." -- Carl Rowan

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A library card is the most important school supply your child needs! Stop by your library and get a card

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"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

You woke up in the setting of the last book you read… where are you?

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." - Anna Quindlen

“Freedom is found through the portals of our nation’s libraries.” -- David McCullough

"Public libraries have always been more than just books. We are a physical shelter, a classroom, a safe haven, a lunchroom, a resource hub, and, yes, even a lifeline." —Chera Kowalski

All Public Libraries in Jefferson County will be closed on Thursday, July 4.

“When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.” -- John Goodman

Many JCLC libraries will be closed June 19. Check before you go.

"That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library." -- Aphra Behn

“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.” ― Bill Moyers

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. — Anonymous

Summer Reading 2025
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All Public Libraries in Jefferson County will be closed on Monday for Memorial Day

Books to the ceiling, books to the sky. My piles of books are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them. Arnold Lobel

"My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." — Malcolm X

"All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library." -- Studs Terkel

"I stepped up to the big librarian and asked for a book on stars … It was in that library, reading that book, that the scale of the universe opened up to me." -- Carl Sagan

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"I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries." - Carl Sagan

“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.” - John Lubbock

"Humorous books are the gateway drug of reading" - Betsy Bird

“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” -- John Waters.

All JCLC libraries are closed on Easter Sunday. To see which libraries will be closed on Friday and Saturday, go to www.jclc.org/info/holiday...

"The public library is where place and possibility meet." -- Stuart Dybek

“The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy." — Vartan Gregorian

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” — Maya Angelou