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Fennville District Library
News & Information
News & Information
The Fennville District Library has served area residents since 1922, when its predecessor
was founded by the Fennville Women’s Club. In 1925 it moved into the Club’s home at 415
East Main Street, where volunteers staffed it until 1948. That year the library’s first paid
librarian, Minnie Little, was hired. In 1966 the Fennville Area Library was established as an
independent entity. Ten years later it reorganized as the Fennville District Library and
became a member of the Lakeland Library Cooperative. The District currently includes the
city of Fennville and the townships of Casco, Clyde and Ganges. Services are also
provided by contract to Lee Manlius Townships.
Following a community-wide fund raising effort, the library moved into its present
building at 400 West Main Street in April 1990. Since then its collection has grown to
include more than 30,000 items. Patrons can also access the World Wide Web from one of
the nine available public access computers. Hours are 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Mondays
through Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Saturdays
and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sundays.
FDL News Winter 2010
“State Funding Cuts Force Change in Regional Library Delivery Service”
Fennville, MI, February 2, 2010 – Effective March 15, 2010, the Fennville District Library and
many public libraries in the West Michigan area will be changing the way they handle
returned materials. Library patrons throughout the 8-county Lakeland Library
Cooperative service area are being informed they will need to return materials to the
library where they checked them out.
The Lakeland Library Cooperative and its members are making the change in the delivery
service to reduce costs, to preserve access to immensely popular services, such as inter-
library loan, and to avoid charging additional fees to patrons for library use. The
previously offered delivery return service was a convenience for patrons that the local
libraries and Cooperative simply can no longer afford to support, particularly in light of
additional budget cuts anticipated with the State’s FY 2010-2011 budget.
The change in the handling of materials comes as the result of a 40% reduction in State
funding to public libraries and library cooperatives with the FY 2009-2010 State budget.
This reduction is in addition to a 4% mid-year cut last year.
The result has been a collective reduction in funding approaching $500,000 to the
Lakeland Library Cooperative and its member libraries. The change in the return process is
being made by libraries to reduce delivery volume.
The Lakeland Library Cooperative includes 41 public libraries serving Allegan, Barry, Ionia,
Kent, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo and Ottawa counties. The libraries serving Allegan
County residents are Dorr Township Library, Fennville District Library, Henika District
Library in Wayland, Herrick District Library in Holland, Hopkins Public Library, Leighton
Township Library, Salem Township Library and Saugatuck-Douglas District Library.
was founded by the Fennville Women’s Club. In 1925 it moved into the Club’s home at 415
East Main Street, where volunteers staffed it until 1948. That year the library’s first paid
librarian, Minnie Little, was hired. In 1966 the Fennville Area Library was established as an
independent entity. Ten years later it reorganized as the Fennville District Library and
became a member of the Lakeland Library Cooperative. The District currently includes the
city of Fennville and the townships of Casco, Clyde and Ganges. Services are also
provided by contract to Lee Manlius Townships.
Following a community-wide fund raising effort, the library moved into its present
building at 400 West Main Street in April 1990. Since then its collection has grown to
include more than 30,000 items. Patrons can also access the World Wide Web from one of
the nine available public access computers. Hours are 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Mondays
through Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Saturdays
and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sundays.
FDL News Winter 2010
“State Funding Cuts Force Change in Regional Library Delivery Service”
Fennville, MI, February 2, 2010 – Effective March 15, 2010, the Fennville District Library and
many public libraries in the West Michigan area will be changing the way they handle
returned materials. Library patrons throughout the 8-county Lakeland Library
Cooperative service area are being informed they will need to return materials to the
library where they checked them out.
The Lakeland Library Cooperative and its members are making the change in the delivery
service to reduce costs, to preserve access to immensely popular services, such as inter-
library loan, and to avoid charging additional fees to patrons for library use. The
previously offered delivery return service was a convenience for patrons that the local
libraries and Cooperative simply can no longer afford to support, particularly in light of
additional budget cuts anticipated with the State’s FY 2010-2011 budget.
The change in the handling of materials comes as the result of a 40% reduction in State
funding to public libraries and library cooperatives with the FY 2009-2010 State budget.
This reduction is in addition to a 4% mid-year cut last year.
The result has been a collective reduction in funding approaching $500,000 to the
Lakeland Library Cooperative and its member libraries. The change in the return process is
being made by libraries to reduce delivery volume.
The Lakeland Library Cooperative includes 41 public libraries serving Allegan, Barry, Ionia,
Kent, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo and Ottawa counties. The libraries serving Allegan
County residents are Dorr Township Library, Fennville District Library, Henika District
Library in Wayland, Herrick District Library in Holland, Hopkins Public Library, Leighton
Township Library, Salem Township Library and Saugatuck-Douglas District Library.