ABOUT THE LIBRARY

The Mary E. Tippitt Memorial Library was a given to the people of Townsend in 1997 by the Charles Tippitt family in remembrance of Mary E. Tippitt, their wife and mother. Starting with a collection of 5000 books, the library has grown to a current total of items numbering over 21,200. The collection includes:

• Adult Fiction and Nonfiction
• Juvenile Fiction and Nonfiction
• Children's Easy Readers
• Audiovisual materials, including videocassettes and DVDs for both adults and children, audio cassettes and CDs, and music CDs
• Children's Software
• Reference materials, including Encyclopedias and Dictionaries (non-circulating)
• The Townsend Collection - Noncirculating materials of local interest, including genealogical sources.
• Newspapers and magazines
• Computers for free public access to the Internet and for software applications
• InterLibrary Loan

Library Board of Directors

Cynthia Humphrey - President

Virginia Borrelli - Director

Ray LaBounty - Director

Betty Roper - Director

Byron Tippitt - Director

Lavada Yazell - Director

 
Mary Newman, Library Director 

Amy Wietlisbach, Library Assistant

Mary Grace McCaffery, Library Assistant

Mildred Fuller, Library Assistant