The White Sulphur Springs Library Board of Trustees will be meeting at the library on Thursday, April 24 at 6: p.m.

 Anyone who wishes to address the board concerning library business is welcome to attend.

 

Exciting things are coming to the White Sulphur Springs Public Library.

 

 

 National Library Week is celebrated  from April 13th to April 19th. 

During this week all library fines will be waved.

 

April is also National Poetry Month

In honor of this the library is hosting

 

A Place Called Solid: the life and work of Louise McNeill

Thursday April 17, 7:00 p.m.

Elizabeth Spangler, a Lewisburg native will give a talk on Mrs. Louise McNeill Pease who was West Virginia's Poet Laureate from 1979 to 1993. Ms. Spangler will speak about McNeill's life and how growing up in the Mountain State influenced her work.  Light refreshments will be served after the program. 

 

Music at the Library

Friday, April 25, 6:00 p.m.

Strum Sum and John Wyatt will be returning to the library to play local favorites and try some new pieces.   Find more information on strumsum.com

 

Calling All Artists!!!

The Library will be hosting the art show during the Dandelion Festival at the end of May.  Please stop by the library to pick up your entree forms in April  

The first library in White Sulphur Springs was established in the summer of 1914 with the help of a gift from Olive P. Stokes. Miss Stokes, a frequent visitor to the Old White Hotel, donated $100 to be used to purchase furniture and pay rent for two upstairs rooms in a building on Main Street. In 1915, the White Sulphur Springs Company donated the present site to be used for a library.

The first library building was erected in 1921.  Seven years later a community house was added to the facility. During World War II, the U.S.O added a back room to the building. In 1976, the local organization became a state-affiliated library under the auspices of the West Virginia Library Commission and adopted its new name -- White Sulphur Springs Public Library.

As the years went by and the library continued to grow, the original building became inadequate. In 1987, a new building was built on the same site.  This 5,000 square foot facility is still in use today.