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Middle Georgia Regional Library System
Middle Georgia Regional Library System
	The old Carnegie library located in Montezuma, Macon County
Location	Central Georgia
Established	1949
Branches	14
Collection
Size	594,540 (2016)
Access and use
Circulation	864,669 (2016)
Population served	229,412 (2016)
Members	84,478 (2016)
Other information
Director	Jennifer Lautzenheiser
Website	http://www.bibblib.org/

The Middle Georgia Regional Library System is a library system which serves the counties of Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Macon, Twiggs and Wilkinson in the U.S. state of Georgia.

Patrons receive a PINES library card. This may be used at any of the 275 libraries affiliated with the program across Georgia, as well as the 14 branches in the Middle Georgia Regional Library System, and is open to all Georgian residents.^[2]^[3]

History edit

Carnegie Library edit

The first request for a Carnegie library was sent by a Montezuma citizen by the name of E. B. Lewis in 1906. Blueprints sent along with the petition were modeled very similarly to the Carnegie building constructed one year earlier in Albany.^[4] On March 24, 1906, Andrew Carnegie accepted the request and gave the town of Montezuma $10,000 for construction of the building. This came with the stipulation that the town pay an upkeep and maintenance fee of $1,000 per year to keep the building in good condition.^[5] Construction began later that year with help from Masons across Georgia.^[6] By 1923 this library was seeing circulation of 12,453 books per year, and the $1,000 annual cost of upkeep was still being administered per Carnegie's request.^[7]

Branches edit

Bibb branches edit

Washington Memorial Library, Macon
Riverside Branch, Macon
Charles A. Lanford, M.D. Library, Macon
Shurling Branch, Macon
West Bibb Branch, Macon (closed)
Bloomfield Library, Macon

Regional branches edit

Crawford County Public Library (Roberta, Crawford County)
Jones County Public Library (Gray, Jones County)
Ideal Public Library (Ideal, Macon County)
Marshallville Public Library (Marshallville, Macon County)
Montezuma Public Library (Montezuma, Macon County)
Oglethorpe Public Library (Oglethorpe, Macon County)
Twiggs County Public Library (Jefferson, Twiggs County)
East Wilkinson County Public Library (Irwinton, Wilkinson County)
Gordon Public Library (Gordon, Wilkinson County)

Library systems in neighboring counties edit

Azalea Regional Library System to the north
Oconee Regional Library System to the east
Ocmulgee Regional Library System to the south
Houston County Public Library System to the south
Peach Public Libraries to the south
Lake Blackshear Regional Library System to the south
Pine Mountain Regional Library System to the west

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Current Look at Georgia Libraries 2016" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
^ "Catalog Search". Retrieved 21 February 2017.
^ "LIBRARY CARDS & RULES". Retrieved 21 February 2017.
^ Walker, Jr, Robert Burke (1994). Georgia's Carnegie Libraries: A study of their History, Their Existing Conditions, and Conservation (PDF). Athens, Georgia. pp. 60–62. Retrieved 11 May 2017.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3.
^ "Corner Stone at Montezuma: Meyerhart Lays Corner Stone at $10,000 Carnegie Library". Vol. XXXIX, no. 237. The Atlanta Constitution. February 7, 1907. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
^ "Montezuma Library Has Successful Year". Vol. LV, no. 213. The Atlanta Constitution. January 12, 1923. Retrieved 12 May 2017.