Thank you to everyone who helps keep the Library looking Beautiful!!! We really appreciate it! Thanks to my board members and volunteers who helped plant our flowers, Pete who put the mulch down, Chris and his helpers who water and mow our lawn and keep it looking wonderful, to the Village of Morrill, and to Watson Manufacturing for helping us with the railing and our dedication plaques.
Here are some fun fact about Morrill Public Library!
On the front of the building we have a sign that reads WPA built 1936, But the library was not completed until March 4, 1937! The Contractor didn’t like the color of the brick so he sent it all back and went to Nebraska City, NE and had bricks made out of the Nebraska City shale!
The first Public Library in Morrill was not the building we are in now in fact it was a collection of donated books to the Twentieth Century Club and they were kept in the Farmers and Merchants Bank building. This started in 1911 so 109 years ago wow!
The first appointed library board met in November of 1917 those members appointed by the Village of Morrill Board were: John Boatsman, F.E Sterns, A.M. Gill, Mrs. A.A. Kearney, S.J. Mealin, and Mrs.E.A. Beard.
In 1917 the Library Board Rented a small building in Morrill to house their growing collection then in 1924 Charles H. Morrill made a gift of two lots near the downtown area. this would be the site of new library and community building.
In august of 1935 the Library board members met with the WPA officials to plan a new library and community building. This would be the building we are in today and, in 1968 a telephone was installed. In the beginning where the children’s section is now is where the Rotary Club had their meetings, there was a full kitchen downstairs along with a dumb waiter used to bring the lunch up for the Rotary Club. The Library itself was were the adult and teen sections are now.
Where the Village of Morrill Museum is located now was the city council room, witch is why there is a vault in the museum, There was no regular Librarian at first, different ladies acted as the librarian without pay. The first official librarian was hired December 1, 1919 Mrs.Funston her salary was $10.00 a month. Since 1919 there have been 16 Librarians including me!
Step one go to our catalog
https://morrill.biblionix.com/catalog/
Step two in the top hand right corner type your full library card number and password then login
If you don’t know your full library card number or password please call Sarah at 308-247-2611 between 1-5 M-F or at 308765-3222
Step three after you login you can search for books or see whats been added that is new or chose from the scroll
Once you have reserved our books we will get an email and pull them off the shelf for you and give you a call to set up a time to pick them up! if you need any help please call Sarah
Hey folks for those of you stuck at home with nothing to read, remember that if you have a library card and you also have overdrive/Libby witch is a free service offered by your library that lets you borrow digital content (like ebooks and audiobooks) anytime, anywhere. here is a tutorial on how to use Libby/Overdrive
https://help.overdrive.com/en-us/1307.html
if you need further help please let me know you can email me at morrillpl@charter.net or message me through face book
Congratulations to all our summer readers ya’ll did great! Sadly Summer Reading has come to an end, but don’t worry we will be back next year same place and same time, I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. This year we have 80 children sign up 37 of them did not complete the program, we had 11 teens and 26 adults! I will be drawing for the adult and teen prizes to day July 29th 2019. Andrew L. Won our Quilt that Kathy Terrell made congrats Andrew. Have a wonderful rest of your summer we will see ya’ll next year!
