C Lancaster By Judy Ripley


who wants to read a book…right? And if you were running a local library, you could never find volunteers to run it, right? Lancaster Community Library and this community would challenge all the above statements.


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The Lancaster Community Library is unique and special, not only in its beginnings, its founding and funding, but in its future.


The “Lancaster Community Library Golden Anniversary: The Early Years” states that “Over the years, the Library of Virginia had sponsored bookmobiles for rural areas, some churches had libraries for their members, there was a small library in Irvington that was open on Thursday afternoons, and the Mary Ball Washington Museum had maintained a lending library in the Old Jail in Lancaster Courthouse that was open one day a week. However, there was no library in the county that was available to the public on a regular basis.” Lindsy Gardner, Director of the library, stated that this library is different from its roots up. In 1961 it was founded by volunteers. The “Committee” secured donations of money and books. The original Lancaster Community


Library building was owned by the town and leased to the newly formed board for the yearly fee of $1.00! That building still stands (all 720 feet!) and will be wrapped in a large ribbon for the library’s 50th celebration this year.


Once the building was secured, volunteers installed shelves, painted walls, made curtains, cataloged books and staffed the library three afternoons and one evening a week.


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ll towns have libraries, right? They are pretty much the same, right? With this electronic age


ommunity Library From the Past into the Future


Lancaster community library original building gift wrapped for 50th anniversary


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