Jefferson County Library Cooperative
@jeffcolibal.bsky.social
A Cooperative Service Provided by the Public Libraries In Jefferson County, Alabama.
“Libraries are the most wonderful places in the world!” - Stan Lee
December 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“Libraries are the most wonderful places in the world!” - Stan Lee
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.” -- Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.” -- Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson
"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you" - Keith Richards
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you" - Keith Richards
“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait in line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.” ~ from David Levithan and Rachel Cohn's Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait in line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.” ~ from David Levithan and Rachel Cohn's Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
My mother and my father were illiterate from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They could not believe that it was free. -- Kirk Douglas
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My mother and my father were illiterate from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They could not believe that it was free. -- Kirk Douglas
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim." – Linton Weeks
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim." – Linton Weeks
"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books." - Thomas Carlyle
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books." - Thomas Carlyle
“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.” ― Elizabeth Drew
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.” ― Elizabeth Drew
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” ― Astrid Lindgren
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” ― Astrid Lindgren
"When I graduated from high school... I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years." - Ray Bradbury
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"When I graduated from high school... I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years." - Ray Bradbury
Many JCLC member libraries will be closed on Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day. You should check before you go.
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Many JCLC member libraries will be closed on Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day. You should check before you go.
"If we want kids to become lifetime readers, then they need books to read, time to read, and choice of what to read." – Kylene Beers
November 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"If we want kids to become lifetime readers, then they need books to read, time to read, and choice of what to read." – Kylene Beers
What can make a Friday afternoon even better? A trip to the Library! Bring the little ones, access free internet, and pick up a few good books for the weekend.
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
What can make a Friday afternoon even better? A trip to the Library! Bring the little ones, access free internet, and pick up a few good books for the weekend.
"Only love and art can do this: only inside a book or in front of a painting can one truly be let into another's perspective. It has always struck me as a paradox how in the solitary arts there is something intimately communal." -- Hisham Matar
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Only love and art can do this: only inside a book or in front of a painting can one truly be let into another's perspective. It has always struck me as a paradox how in the solitary arts there is something intimately communal." -- Hisham Matar
"Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay." --Zadie Smith
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay." --Zadie Smith
"I always say the greatest invention in history was the free public library." -- Dan Gutman
October 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"I always say the greatest invention in history was the free public library." -- Dan Gutman
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” ― François Mauriac
October 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” ― François Mauriac
What's Your Library Worth?
How much money are you saving by using your local library? Use this handy Library Value Calculator to find out, ilovelibraries.org/calculator/
How much money are you saving by using your local library? Use this handy Library Value Calculator to find out, ilovelibraries.org/calculator/
October 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What's Your Library Worth?
How much money are you saving by using your local library? Use this handy Library Value Calculator to find out, ilovelibraries.org/calculator/
How much money are you saving by using your local library? Use this handy Library Value Calculator to find out, ilovelibraries.org/calculator/
"Libraries are the gateways to the universe! A bastion of knowledge and inspiration." -- Jackie Anton
October 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"Libraries are the gateways to the universe! A bastion of knowledge and inspiration." -- Jackie Anton
"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence." -- Jan Morris
October 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence." -- Jan Morris