Country Canada Location King City, Ontario Website www.kinglibrary.ca | Type Public library Branches 4 Phone +1 905-833-5101 | |
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Items collected business directories, phone books, maps, government publications, books, periodicals, genealogy, local history Address 101 Pilot View Dr, King, NC 27021, USA Hours Open today · 10AM–8PMTuesday10AM–8PMWednesday10AM–8PMThursday10AM–8PMFriday10AM–8PMSaturday10AM–5PMSundayClosedMonday10AM–8PM Similar Forsyth County Public Lib, Rural Hall/Stanl Librar, Yadkin County Public Lib, Lewisville Branch Library, Boonville Community Library Profiles | ||
The King Township Public Library is a public library system that serves King Township, Ontario in Canada. It consists of four branches located in King City, Nobleton, Schomberg, and Ansnorveldt.
Contents
The library rotates certain books through the various branches to ensure all residents in the township have equal access to volumes held.
Collections include government works (e.g. federal budgets), annual reports, and maps. Periodicals and newspapers are archived for a short period of time. The library also maintains township history archives at the King City branch.
Services
The library system offers a number of programs for children and adults, plus language kits and multi-lingual books. A limited selection of music CDs and movie DVDs are available for loan in addition to book circulation.
History
James Whitling Crossley established the first library in King, the Mechanics Institute Library, which opened in 1893 in King City. In 1947, the King Memorial Library was a private-operated library opened by Marjorie Jarvis, who had been president of the Ontario Library Association in 1935—1936. It was located at Memorial Park in King City, and its collection included about 1000 items, most of which were transferred to the current King City branch of the King Township Public Library, built in 1970. In 1956, the King City Memorial Library was opened.
In 1930, a library was established in Schomberg, serving the growing communities in the northeastern portion of the township. The Nobleton branch first opened to the public in 1968. In 1990, a fundraising campaign was established to build a branch building in Ansnorveldt. The 768 square feet (71.3 m2) building cost C$48,000 to build, of which one third was funded by a government of Ontario grant, one third by the municipal government, and the remaining one third was raised by the community, including C$3,000 by students of the nearby school.
In 1976 and 1977, a dispute arose between the library board and the King Township Council regarding development of land adjacent to the King City branch into a lumber depot. The library opposed the rezoning of the property, leading to two Ontario Municipal Board hearings and an appeal to the Ontario High Court of Justice before plans for the lumber depot were abandoned.
In December 2016, a press release issued by the township municipal government stated that the King City branch would be expanded from 7,800 square feet (720 m2) to 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2). The structure would also be expanded to include a senior's centre, which would move from its location on Dew Street. The project will cost $9.05 million, and will be funded from tax revenues, development charge reserves, and debentures.