One of the best things about living in Livingston County is the great services we get to utilize. And it doesn’t get any better than the Howell Carnegie District Library.
The library was conceptualized in 1902 when Howell’s postmaster W.H.S. Wood wrote a letter to the entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie seeking funding to build a library. He was offered $10,000 if the village and township would pledge its support with an additional $1000 per year and provide a suitable site. A mil levy was passed and four McPherson brothers purchased the land on Grand River and donated it for the library. The library opened its doors on November 19, 1906.
The library went through a complete restoration and expansion in 1989, and the building reopened to a grand public reception on March 1, 1991. The new addition added an additional 22,000 square feet to the old Carnegie building of 8,000 square feet.
The library offers a dazzling array of services from an extensive reference department, a first-class multi-level Youth section featuring books in all forms of media, meeting rooms, computer access, study rooms, tax forms, and copiers.
There is a long list of programs and events the library facilitates, from preschool story times, “Wii Wednesday” and “Guitar Hero Thursdays” for teenagers, to financial planning and dog training for adults.
If it’s been a while since you’ve been to the library, head over and check out what you’ve been missing.
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