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About Your Library | Our Hours | Your Librarians | Our History
201 East Main Street
Phone: 270.692.4698
Fax: 270.692.9555
Founded in 1923, the Marion County Public Library is celebrating its 100 year anniversary. We offer free circulation of print books, audio books, and movies, all appealing to an array of ages. There are board books and picture books in the early reader section, juvenile-specific and young adult specific fiction and graphic novels, combined juvenile and young adult non-fiction and biography, and adult fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels and biography.
We also have an ever-expanding collection of large print titles, as well as sections for classic literature, paperbacks, romance, westerns and over-sized non-fiction. Additionally, there are a variety of texts available in our Kentucky section, and our genealogy books are housed in their own research room.
The library is funded off a millage property tax, as are the majority of public libraries across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. This money is used to pay our librarians, expand our collection and pay our daily operating expenses.
We are staffed by 8 full-time and 9 part-time library staff.
Monday & Thursday – 10:00am-6:00pm
Friday – 10:00am-5:00pm
Saturday – 10:00am-2:00pm
Sunday – Closed
Librarians
Director – Jamie Collins
Assistant Director – Sandy Nunley
Technology Specialist – Sam Morris
ILL Librarian/Cataloger – Devin Weaver
Children’s Librarian – Rachael Lynch
Outreach Librarian – Epiphany Mohamed
Adult Services Librarian – Raegan Morgeson
Teen & Tween Librarian – Tori Summers
Public Relation – Jackie Woolums
Genealogist – Brittany Dunn
Bookmobile – Epiphany Mohamed
Cataloger – Tristan K.
Circulation Coordinator – Rani S.
Circulation Assistant – Jennie M.
Circulation Assistant – Jennifer
Circulation Assistant – Joanie B.
Circulation Assistant –
Circulation Assistant – Ally
Custodian – Jonathan N.
History (from the History of Marion County Kentucky, Volume I, compiled by the Marion County Historical Society) “The Marion County Public Library was founded by the Lebanon-Marion County Woman’s Club in 1923 and they very admirably operated it for over 40 years.
In 1966 the library became affiliated with the Kentucky Department of Libraries in Frankfort after a tax was passed by petition in Marion County.
In 1969, the library received an Amortization Grant from the State to finance a new library building. In 1970, the beautiful building at 201 East Main Street was completed and the books were moved across the street. The building with nearly all new furnishing cost about $180,000.
In 1993, the size of the building was nearly doubled, with a generous bequest of $200,000 from Dorothy Thomas Cullen and Margaret Lindsey Creech, daughters of the late Judge R. Thomas. The Lebanon City Council and Marion County Fiscal Court each contributed $15,000 and the State Library matched local funding of $230,000. The debt free building was dedicated in November 1993.”
The library’s last construction project began in the fall of 2017. The project was funded by a grant through the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives and was completed when we reopened in February of 2019.
