Headquarters Library has reopened
January 21, 2025
Press release from Alachua County Library District
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Alachua County Library District is happy to announce that the Headquarters Library reopened to the public today at 10 a.m.
Power has been restored to the building, and we are looking forward to providing the community with library services at the Headquarters Library.
We appreciate your patience while the location has been closed.
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Have the public p*rn-view workstations been screened off?
Waste of taxpayer money. Voters should be allowed to vote on sunsetting this Sid Martin boondoggle. Nothing but a homeless shelter. Look at the budget, the number of employees and their library-only pension fund. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
The Alachua County Library District is an independent special taxing district and the sole provider of public library service to approximately 280,000 citizens of Alachua County, Florida.[1] This includes all of the incorporated municipalities in the county. It maintains a headquarters library and four other branches in Gainesville. There are branch locations in seven of the eight other incorporated municipalities in the county. The district also operates a branch at the county jail, and two bookmobiles.
The five locations in Gainesville include the headquarters branch in downtown Gainesville, Millhopper Branch in northwest Gainesville, Tower Road Branch in unincorporated Alachua county southwest of Gainesville, Library Partnership Branch in northeast Gainesville, and Cone Park Branch in east Gainesville. The district also operates branches in the Alachua County municipalities of Alachua, Archer, Hawthorne, High Springs, Micanopy, Newberry, and Waldo, and at the Alachua County Jail. The district operates two bookmobiles which visit more than 25 locations in the county from two to five times a month.
Apart from library card privileges, the Alachua County Library District branches offer other services including meeting rooms, events for all ages, ebooks, audiobooks, computer access, free mp3 downloads, downloadable magazines, Wi-Fi, printing, interlibrary loans, proctoring, and literacy tutoring for adults and ESOL learners.
I personally use their ebooks services which feature a large catalog, including recently published and popular books, as well as a large collection of magazines. Check out is for as long as 3 weeks and you do all this on your phone, tablet, or computer at no cost to you. I highly recommend it.