December 10, 2024 - Today is an exciting day at the Fannie Brown Booth Library in Center. A crew from Library Interiors is installing new shelves and furniture as part of our renovation project. New lighting should be coming in next week.
If all goes well, we plan to open the first or second week of January. The patience and cooperation of the community is greatly appreciated during this process.
November 21, 2024 - The staff of the Fannie Brown Booth Library have been busy boxing books with the help of the JCCs and volunteers. Between 350 and 400 boxes of books have been moved to storage. We moved shelves and furniture out of the library into the Redditt room with the help of the JCCs and volunteers. We had a young man come and take apart the counter. He also helped disassemble the double wide shelves and move them into the Redditt Room. The carpet installers have prepped the floor and installed the carpet. The next step will be the installation of new lighting.
October 30, 2024 - The Friends of the Fannie Brown Booth Library would like to thank the public for the successful book sale benefiting the library.
Many happy readers found lots of hardback and paperback treasures during the week of the sale. The proceeds from the book sale are used to purchase new books and go towards the renovation and any other needs of the library. For more information about the Friends of the Library, please call the library at 598-5522.
September 5, 2024 - The Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library is pleased to announce the awarding of the Tocker Foundation Library Transformation Grant in the amount of $100,000. The Tocker Foundation promotes public libraries in communities of 12,000 or less. The Tocker Foundation was established in 1964 to implement the philanthropic interests of Phillip and Olive Tocker. Mr. Tocker was an attorney and built an outdoor advertising business in Waco, TX. In 1993 and 1994, Mr. and Mrs. Tocker endowed the foundation with their estates.