Libraries
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Athens-Clarke County
More Than Books: Libraries Are Community Centers
The automatic sliding doors open with a whoosh. Books are neatly stacked on the hold shelves, waiting for readers to come and retrieve them. The stairs take you up to rows upon rows of books of all different sizes, some skinny, some wide, some heavy tomes. Bright lights illuminate…
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Athens-Clarke County
Winterville Library Makes Noise for Funding With Concert Series
In places filled with books, you usually expect quiet, but not in Winterville. Through the month of October, people in Winterville, Georgia, gathered at the Front Porch Bookstore for a concert, but they weren’t just there for the music. Friends of the Winterville Library, a nonprofit dedicated to raising funds…
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Education
Jackson County Library Provides Stable Environment For Digital Learners
Duncan Reynolds, a student at East Jackson Comprehensive High School, has not yet gone back to school in person. Lately, he has been doing the majority of his schoolwork at his local library in Nicholson. Harold S. Swindle Public Library in Jackson County offers Wi-Fi and a productive environment for…