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 22,000. 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
• Used books and videos for sale

Library Board of Directors

Cynthia Humphrey - President

Byron Tippitt - Vice President

LaVada Yazell - Secretary

Virginia Borrelli - Director

Ray LaBounty - Director

Betty Roper - Director

Monique Lequire - Director

 

Library Staff

 Mary Newman, Library Director 

Mildred Fuller, Library Assistant

Judy Walters, Volunteer