Twin Lakes Library System
Encyclopedia
The Twin Lakes Library System is a single-county public library system that services the citizens of Milledgeville
and BaldwinCounty
, Georgia
with two facilities. The library system provides the public access to books, movies, music, periodicals, and computing access at both facilities.
George S. Carpenter commented, "the time has come when Milledgeville must plan for the future if she expects to grow and remain a progressive city." With a $25 monthly appropriation
toward the establishment and maintenance of the library by the City, plans were earnestly made to provide Milledgeville with its first public library.
In 1938 Mr. Julian Stanley offered a vacant building that he owned located on Hancock Street, the Elks Building, as the home for the new library and assisted in the renovation process. On January 18, 1938 the library opened its door to the public as The Baldwin County Library. Within the first year of operation, the Baldwin County Library had the largest circulation of books in its area with a total circulation of 1,388.
In July 1948, the Board of Trustees unanimously adopted a constitution and by-laws and the library purpose was made clear. The Library's purpose was established to be "the furnishing of complete library service to the people - adult and juvenile - of this county," and that "all services rendered by the library shall be free to the residents of Baldwin County
."
Funded by cashing in bonds, in 1953 the library moved from its location on Hancock Street to the first floor of the Veterans' Building. As early as the 1950s the library sought to expand into a regional library. Needing larger space to house the facility, a letter was drafted to Carl Vinson, chairman of the armed services committee, asking for assistance. Although the proposition appealed to Mr. Vinson, the project of becoming a regional library did not come to fruition at that time. However, in 1958 the Baldwin County Library became a part of Middle Georgia Regional Library System. In 1961, Carl Vinson secured the county's old post office as a new building for the library. For his generosity, the Board of Trustees changed the name of the headquarters of the Baldwin County Library on June 15, 1961 to the Mary Vinson Memorial Library in honor of Congressman Vinson's late wife.
By the 1980s increased circulation and other library services forced the need for a larger space. After many proposals it was agreed that a new library had to be built. The new 18,900 square foot (1,790 m2) two-story building, the library's current location, opened in 1987. As of 2010 the library has a separate children's, young adult, and local history area for its patrons. In addition to the physical expansion, the library updated its catalog system. Carter Nipper, a former library employee, designed AUTOLIB, the library's first automated catalog. This was the first computerized library catalog available to library patrons.
After 43 years under the Middle Georgia Library System, the Mary Vinson Memorial Library became the headquarters for a new library system, the Twin Lakes Library System in July 2001. On May 30, 2003, the Twin Lakes Library System added a branch library, the Lake Sinclair Library, to serve patrons on the north side of town. On October 10, 2008 the System added its third branch facility, the Floride Allen Library, located in the Wray Housing Facility of the Milledgeville Housing Authority. The Floride Allen Library closed on February 23, 2011 in response to state budget cuts.
The Twin Lakes System is a Georgia public library and a member of the Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES), which connects its libraries' collections through the PINES online catalog. Patrons who possess a PINES library card can place holds, renew items, and see what the other 275+ member libraries have available in their collections, as well as check out materials from any PINES member library.
(formerly the State Capitol building). It can seat more than 200 people; it has a separate children's area, including an amphitheater complete with a built-in puppet stage; and a recently renovated genealogical and historical reading room and wireless public internet access.
Hours of Operation
Monday: 9 am - 9 pm
Tuesday through Friday: 9 am - 7 pm
Saturday: 9 am - 1 pm
Sunday: Closed
The Lake Sinclair Library building is in a 2,500 square foot (237 m2) storefront unit of the Riverside Plaza shopping center located at 3061 North Columbia Street on Highway 441 North near Lake Sinclair
. It has a children's area, a wireless public Internet
facility, and reading and study areas.
Hours of Operation
Monday through Friday: 12 pm - 6 pm
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
The following services are only available at the Mary Vinson Memorial Library:
Barry Reese
, BS, MLIS
Assistant Director - LaToya M. Davidson, BBA, MLIS, MEd
Branch Manager - Lake Sinclair Library - Virginia Greene, BA
Youth Services Coordinator - Anne Moore, BS, MEd
Collection Development Coordinator - Jared Baker, BS
Network Administrator - Edwin Hopkins, BS
Reference Supervisor - Dabney Kinser, BA
Circulation Supervisor - Sarah W. Davis
and Assistant Director, LaToya Davidson, the podcast showcases their viewpoints on news, entertainment, books, and other issues. Guests are invited to participate in trivia for prizes, as well as receiving a gift button declaring "I got caught In the Stacks with Barry & LaToya."
Milledgeville, Georgia
Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon, located just before Eatonton on the way to Athens along U.S. Highway 441, and it is located on the Oconee River. The relatively rapid current of the Oconee here made this an...
and BaldwinCounty
Baldwin County, Georgia
Baldwin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2010, the population was 46,337. The county seat is Milledgeville.Baldwin County is part of the Milledgeville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes neighboring Hancock County....
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
with two facilities. The library system provides the public access to books, movies, music, periodicals, and computing access at both facilities.
History
Planned to be a place of "recreation, inspiration, and information," then MayorMayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
George S. Carpenter commented, "the time has come when Milledgeville must plan for the future if she expects to grow and remain a progressive city." With a $25 monthly appropriation
Appropriation (law)
In law and government, appropriation is the act of setting apart something for its application to a particular usage, to the exclusion of all other uses....
toward the establishment and maintenance of the library by the City, plans were earnestly made to provide Milledgeville with its first public library.
In 1938 Mr. Julian Stanley offered a vacant building that he owned located on Hancock Street, the Elks Building, as the home for the new library and assisted in the renovation process. On January 18, 1938 the library opened its door to the public as The Baldwin County Library. Within the first year of operation, the Baldwin County Library had the largest circulation of books in its area with a total circulation of 1,388.
In July 1948, the Board of Trustees unanimously adopted a constitution and by-laws and the library purpose was made clear. The Library's purpose was established to be "the furnishing of complete library service to the people - adult and juvenile - of this county," and that "all services rendered by the library shall be free to the residents of Baldwin County
Baldwin County, Georgia
Baldwin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2010, the population was 46,337. The county seat is Milledgeville.Baldwin County is part of the Milledgeville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes neighboring Hancock County....
."
Funded by cashing in bonds, in 1953 the library moved from its location on Hancock Street to the first floor of the Veterans' Building. As early as the 1950s the library sought to expand into a regional library. Needing larger space to house the facility, a letter was drafted to Carl Vinson, chairman of the armed services committee, asking for assistance. Although the proposition appealed to Mr. Vinson, the project of becoming a regional library did not come to fruition at that time. However, in 1958 the Baldwin County Library became a part of Middle Georgia Regional Library System. In 1961, Carl Vinson secured the county's old post office as a new building for the library. For his generosity, the Board of Trustees changed the name of the headquarters of the Baldwin County Library on June 15, 1961 to the Mary Vinson Memorial Library in honor of Congressman Vinson's late wife.
By the 1980s increased circulation and other library services forced the need for a larger space. After many proposals it was agreed that a new library had to be built. The new 18,900 square foot (1,790 m2) two-story building, the library's current location, opened in 1987. As of 2010 the library has a separate children's, young adult, and local history area for its patrons. In addition to the physical expansion, the library updated its catalog system. Carter Nipper, a former library employee, designed AUTOLIB, the library's first automated catalog. This was the first computerized library catalog available to library patrons.
After 43 years under the Middle Georgia Library System, the Mary Vinson Memorial Library became the headquarters for a new library system, the Twin Lakes Library System in July 2001. On May 30, 2003, the Twin Lakes Library System added a branch library, the Lake Sinclair Library, to serve patrons on the north side of town. On October 10, 2008 the System added its third branch facility, the Floride Allen Library, located in the Wray Housing Facility of the Milledgeville Housing Authority. The Floride Allen Library closed on February 23, 2011 in response to state budget cuts.
The Twin Lakes System is a Georgia public library and a member of the Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES), which connects its libraries' collections through the PINES online catalog. Patrons who possess a PINES library card can place holds, renew items, and see what the other 275+ member libraries have available in their collections, as well as check out materials from any PINES member library.
Locations and hours of operation
The Mary Vinson Memorial Library building is an 18,900 square foot, (1,790 m2) two-story structure located at 151 South Jefferson Street and across Greene Street from the north gates of Georgia Military CollegeGeorgia Military College
Georgia Military College is a United States Military Junior College, high school, and middle school in Milledgeville, Georgia. GMC is one of five military junior colleges that participates in the Army's Early Commissioning Program. Cadets who graduate from GMC's two-year, military science-oriented...
(formerly the State Capitol building). It can seat more than 200 people; it has a separate children's area, including an amphitheater complete with a built-in puppet stage; and a recently renovated genealogical and historical reading room and wireless public internet access.
Hours of Operation
Monday: 9 am - 9 pm
Tuesday through Friday: 9 am - 7 pm
Saturday: 9 am - 1 pm
Sunday: Closed
The Lake Sinclair Library building is in a 2,500 square foot (237 m2) storefront unit of the Riverside Plaza shopping center located at 3061 North Columbia Street on Highway 441 North near Lake Sinclair
Lake Sinclair
Lake Sinclair is a man-made lake in central Georgia near Milledgeville. It is operated by Georgia Power.- Location :Located in the central region of Georgia, on the Oconee River, Lake Sinclair stretches through the counties of Baldwin, Hancock, and Putnam, Lake Sinclair was created in 1953...
. It has a children's area, a wireless public Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
facility, and reading and study areas.
Hours of Operation
Monday through Friday: 12 pm - 6 pm
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
Services
The following services are provided at each of the Twin Lakes Library System facilities:- Public use computerComputerA computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
s with InternetInternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
access - Library websiteWebsiteA website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
, blogBlogA blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
, and message boards - Public wireless Internet access
- Talking Book services
- Large Print Books
- DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
and VHSVHSThe Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
movies - CDCompact DiscThe Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
, cassetteCompact CassetteThe Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
, and PlayawayPlayawayPlayaway is the name of a solid-state prerecorded audio player introduced in 2005 by Findaway World, LLC, based in Solon, Ohio. About the size of a deck of playing cards and weighing 2 ounces, it can store up to 80 hours of audio...
audiobooks - PhotocopierPhotocopierA photocopier is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply. Most current photocopiers use a technology called xerography, a dry process using heat...
s (B&W and color) - FaxFaxFax , sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material , normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device...
services - Word processingWord processingWord processing is the creation of documents using a word processor. It can also refer to advanced shorthand techniques, sometimes used in specialized contexts with a specially modified typewriter.-External links:...
and document creation - Proctoring services
- Frank's Friends, a Friends of the LibraryFriends of LibrariesFriends of Libraries USA are non-profit charitable, groups formed to support libraries in their communities. Friends of Libraries groups are often involved in fundraising, advocacy, volunteerism,public awareness campaigns, and literacy programs.-See also:...
Store - Books
- Magazines
- Audiobooks
- Movies
The following services are only available at the Mary Vinson Memorial Library:
- GenealogyGenealogyGenealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
and Local HistoryLocal historyLocal history is the study of history in a geographically local context and it often concentrates on the local community. It incorporates cultural and social aspects of history...
collections - Interlibrary loanInterlibrary loanInterlibrary loan is a service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library...
s (non-PINES loans) - NotaryNotary publicA notary public in the common law world is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business...
service - ScanningImage scannerIn computing, an image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Common examples found in offices are variations of the desktop scanner where the document is placed on a glass...
services
Barry Reese
Barry Reese
Barry Reese is a librarian and American writer. He is best known for his work on The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe for Marvel Comics, D6 Space: Fires of Amatsumara Worldbook for West End Games and the Rook Universe series of novels...
, BS, MLIS
Assistant Director - LaToya M. Davidson, BBA, MLIS, MEd
Branch Manager - Lake Sinclair Library - Virginia Greene, BA
Youth Services Coordinator - Anne Moore, BS, MEd
Collection Development Coordinator - Jared Baker, BS
Network Administrator - Edwin Hopkins, BS
Reference Supervisor - Dabney Kinser, BA
Circulation Supervisor - Sarah W. Davis
Vision
"The Mission of the Twin Lakes Library System is to improve and enhance the educational, the cultural and the recreational life of the communities served."Mission
"The Twin Lakes Library System's mission is to improve and enhance the educational, cultural and recreational life of the communities served in order to increase the intellectual potential of the community. The System does this by promoting access to information, offering innovative programs and providing well-trained staff.""In the Stacks with Barry & LaToya"
On June 10, 2010, the first episode of the Twin Lakes Library System's podcast "In the Stacks with Barry & LaToya" was produced. Hosted by library Director, Barry ReeseBarry Reese
Barry Reese is a librarian and American writer. He is best known for his work on The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe for Marvel Comics, D6 Space: Fires of Amatsumara Worldbook for West End Games and the Rook Universe series of novels...
and Assistant Director, LaToya Davidson, the podcast showcases their viewpoints on news, entertainment, books, and other issues. Guests are invited to participate in trivia for prizes, as well as receiving a gift button declaring "I got caught In the Stacks with Barry & LaToya."