Three Rivers Regional Library System

Three Rivers Regional Library System
Three Rivers Regional Library System
	Bryan-Lang Library, Camden County
Location	Southeast Georgia
Established	2000
Branches	9
Collection
Size	275,003 (2016)
Access and use
Circulation	308,957 (2016)
Population served	147,773 (2016)
Members	86,176 (2016)
Other information
Director	Diana Very
Website	http://threeriverslibraries.org/

Last updated July 03, 2023

The Three Rivers Regional Library System (TRRL) is a public library system that serves the counties of Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Long, McIntosh, and Wayne, Georgia, United States. The administrative office of the system is located in Jesup.

TRRL is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia.^[2] Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books.^[3] The library is also serviced by GALILEO, a program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online". This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. It also boasts over 10,000 journal titles in full text.^[4]

History

Wayne County Library

The founding of the Three Rivers Regional Library System may be attributed to the first library in Wayne County, as this county is the home of the current central headquarters for the system. Built in 1937 through efforts by the Works Progress Administration, the Wayne County Library started off with a small, inadequate building. By the end of 1938 many of the books in the collection were already in bad repair, and public funding of the library was minimal. Constant financial support was afforded to the library by the Georgia Library Commission for its first decade in order to stay afloat.^[5]

Towards the beginning of 1950 the Tecoma Garden Club helped to alleviate some of the library's financial issues. The club first secured permission and petitioned interested parties for monies to construct a library space in the local Community House. The initial goal of $2,000 was met and exceeded, and in the end the Garden Club has raised $6,000 to be used for the project. In order to incorporate the ideologies of the Garden Club with the wishes of the Public Library blueprints called for a library which included large windows and French doors looking out onto a grassed terrace, nestled in a grove of pine trees. Due to problems in construction the entire $6,000 fund was spent before the building saw completion. The City of Jesup provided $200 for plumbing and heating, and the rest of the $2,000 deficit was raised through more efforts by the Garden Club. The library officially opened on November 9, 1949, and is the building which is still in use today.^[5]

The library holds a WPA mural titled "General Oglethorpe Concludes a Treaty of Amity and Peace with the Creek Indians – May 18, 1733", painted in Jesup's United States post office in 1938 by David Hutchison.

Regional History

The next county of the system to have a library was Camden County, which began its library also in 1949. Throughout the next fifty years six neighboring counties joined the system, and in 2000 the name was officially changed to Three Rivers Regional Library System.^[6]

In 2010 disagreements broke out between the library in Glynn County and the rest of the system. By 2013 Glynn County formed its own library system in the county seat, Brunswick, called the Marshes of Glynn Libraries.^[7]

Branches

Name	Address
Brantley County Library	14046 Cleveland Street, East; mailing address: P.O. Box 1090, Nahunta, GA 31553
Camden County Public Library	1410 Highway 40 East, Kingsland, GA 31548
Charlton Public Library	1291 Indian Trail, Folkston, GA 31537
Hog Hammock Public Library	1023 Hillery Lane, P.O. Box 69, Sapelo Island, GA 31327
Ida Hilton Public Library	1105 North Way, Darien, GA 31305
Long County Public Library	28 South Main Street, Ludowici, GA 31316
St Marys Public Library	100 Herb Bauer Drive, St. Marys, GA 31558
Wayne County Library	759 Sunset Boulevard, Jesup, GA 31545
Woodbine Public Library	103 East 8th Street, Woodbine, GA 31569

Library systems in neighboring counties

Ohoopee Regional Library System to the north
Live Oak Public Libraries to the northeast
Marshes of Glynn Libraries to the east
Okefenokee Regional Library System to the west

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References

1 2 3 4 "Current Look at Georgia Libraries 2016" (PDF). Retrieved 10 April 2017.
↑ "PINES - About" . Retrieved 10 April 2017.
↑ "PINES Facts" (PDF). Retrieved 10 April 2017.
↑ "GALILEO - About" . Retrieved 10 April 2017.
1 2 Martin, Bobby B (1990). Wayne County Georgia: Its History and Its People. Dallas, Texas: Curtis Media Corporation. pp. 140–142. ISBN 0-88107-159-5.
↑ "About Us Three Rivers Regional Library System" . Retrieved 10 April 2017.
↑ Morrison, Mike (June 28, 2013). "Three Rivers Regional Library leaves Brunswick for Jesup". The Florida Times Union. jacksonville.com. Retrieved 10 April 2017.

External links

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[GALib16-1] 1 2 3 4 "Current Look at Georgia Libraries 2016" (PDF). Retrieved 10 April 2017.

[2] "PINES - About" . Retrieved 10 April 2017.

[3] "PINES Facts" (PDF). Retrieved 10 April 2017.

[4] "GALILEO - About" . Retrieved 10 April 2017.

[Martin-5] 1 2 Martin, Bobby B (1990). Wayne County Georgia: Its History and Its People. Dallas, Texas: Curtis Media Corporation. pp. 140–142. ISBN 0-88107-159-5.

[6] "About Us Three Rivers Regional Library System" . Retrieved 10 April 2017.

[7] Morrison, Mike (June 28, 2013). "Three Rivers Regional Library leaves Brunswick for Jesup". The Florida Times Union. jacksonville.com. Retrieved 10 April 2017.

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