Coweta Public Library System

The Coweta Public Library System (CPLS) is a group of four public libraries in Coweta County, Georgia. The branches serve the towns of Grantville, Newnan, and Senoia.

Coweta Public Library System
LocationCoweta County, Georgia
Branches4
Collection
Size188,634[1]
Access and use
Circulation515,819 (2016)[1]
Population served141,369 (2016)[1]
Members87,507 (2016)[1]
Other information
DirectorJimmy Bass
Websitehttp://cowt.ent.sirsi.net/

The Coweta County Public Library uses the interlibrary loan system to share books between its branches. Members of the county library may check out and return books to any location and have access to over 180,000 books in the library collection.[2]

History

The first public library in Coweta County was a carnegie library funded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1901. Accordingly, a teenager in the town of Newnan wrote to Carnegia requesting funds for a public library, and he provided a grant for $10,000 with the condition the town continue to pay for the running of the library after construction. Construction began August 4, 1903 and concluded the following year in 1904.[3]

In 1987 the Carnegie library was replaced for a new building constructed on Hospital Road in Newnan. This new branch, the A. Mitchell Powell, Jr Library was constructed to modernize the city library and provide more space for book stacks, meeting areas, and public computers.[3]

By 2007 the original Carnegie library was again vacant and a movement grew to bring the library back to the downtown area. By 2009 after renovations to the building the Carnegie library was re-purposed as a meeting area and pseudo-library with a non-circulating collection of books, magazines, and newspapers.[4][5]

Branches
NameAddress
Central Library85 Literary Lane, Newnan, GA 30265
A. Mitchell Powell, Jr. Branch25 Hospital Road, Newnan, GA 30263
Grantville Branch100 Park Drive, Grantville, GA 30220
Senoia Branch148 Pylant Street, Senoia, GA 30276

Library systems in neighboring counties

References
  1. "Current Look of Georgia Libraries 2016" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  2. "CPLS Catalog". Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. "Newnan Carnegie Library History". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  4. "Newnan County - Renovation". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  5. "Newnan Carnegie - What we Do". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
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