FROM OUR DIRECTOR As the Executive Director of the Briggs Lawrence County Public Library system, allow me to welcome you to the inaugural issue of the Briggs Bulletin, the quarterly newsletter of the Briggs Lawrence County Public Library. I am celebrating my first year as Executive Director and guiding a renewal effort at our locations to be known for items and services beyond books. BLCPL is working on a variety of projects to bring new services, materials, and renewed physical spaces to the community of Lawrence County. We are committed to increasing our non-traditional offerings through a variety of projects as a part of our Beyond Books Initiative. Among the first new service offerings at BLCPL we will have free notary public services at our locations. If you need notary services in Lawrence County, we want to be your first stop. As part of our effort to renew our physical spaces the Phyllis Hamner Local History Room at our Ironton location has been cleaned, reorganized, and renewed. The Hamner Room now has new shelving as well as more shelving. More materials related to Lawrence County are displayed and available in the local history room. We’ve installed a new microfilm reader and a new digital scanner. We hope to digitize unique and rare items in our collection starting in 2025. As part of our commitment to new services, we have Awe Stations available at 4 of our locations: Chesapeake, Ironton, Proctorville, and South Point for educational games and educational instructional courses like beginning programming. We invite the community to visit our newly renovated Children’s Area at Ironton in order to enjoy the new sensory items and STEM materials available at the location. These are just a little bit of the new offerings from BLCPL coming to Lawrence County in 2024 and beyond. We’re excited for you to join us in this new chapter which goes beyond books! Gretchen Claypool, Executive Director, Briggs Lawrence County Public Library System Ironton Branch 321 South 4th Street Ironton, Ohio 45638 (740) 532-1124 South Point Branch 317 Solida Road South Point, Ohio 45680 (740) 377-2288 Chesapeake Branch 11054 County Road 1 Chesapeake, Ohio 45619 (740) 867-3390 Proctorville Branch 410 Elizabeth Street Proctorville, Ohio 45669 (740) 886-6697 Symmes Valley Branch 14860 State Route 141 Willow Wood, Ohio 45696 (740) 202-9182 Hamner Room (Genealogy) 321 South 4th Street Ironton, Ohio 45638 (740) 532-1124 OUR BRANCHES IMAGINE A LIBRARY “BEYOND BOOKS.” In 2024 BLCPL plans to bring a variety of services and non-traditional materials to the library to enrich the whole community, readers and non-readers alike with our systemwide Beyond Books Initiative. We’re bringing sensory skill building items and STEM materials to our juvenile area, starting our pilot bicycle lending program, upgrading our public use technology to help Lawrence County residents access: printing, faxing, scanning, and document management with greater ease, and FREE notary public services are now available at all our locations. As we move beyond books in a variety of ways, board games for family game nights and new video game titles across a variety of platforms, are now available. We also hope to develop a library collection including essential tools and craft materials at our libraries free for lending to the public later in 2024. Stop into any Briggs Lawrence County Library location and see what we have to offer, “Beyond Books” Library Administration Offices P.O. Box 1116 • South Point, OH 45680 • (740) 533-0363 Free Notary Services
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