Bloomsburg Public Library

Established in 1899, the Bloomsburg Library Company was not much more than a reading room. It was located on the second floor of the Woolworth Building. Take a close look at the desk in the photo at right: it is still in use in the Children's Library.

Bloomsburgers read so eagerly, however, that in 1903, the Civic, Century, Ivy and Wednesday Clubs pooled their resources to provide support for a real library. A Board of Directors was formed and a librarian hired.

The Library moved with the times. A telephone was installed in 1913 and the following year piano rolls were added to the collection, to be loaned out to patrons for the sum of one quarter.