Forrest City Library

The Forrest City Public Library was established in 1921 when a group of local women, known as the Community Service Circle, gathered together a total of five hundred donated books. The library opened again in 1927, thanks to the efforts of Mr. Sam Mann. The Forrest City Public Library moved to its new home on Washington Street in April of 1939 at a cost of $25,000. Today, the library is open over forty hours per week, with evening hours offered on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  The original 1939 building is still in use, though there is now some 4200 square feet of space.  We now have over 30,000 circulating materials, computers with Internet access, video and audio   collections, and many other services.  Most importantly, we come to work each day with the knowledge of dedicated ancestors whose determination and ambition was to see Forrest City and its library grow and prosper, and with the responsibility to see their dreams continue to come true.