Loudoun County Public Library
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| Country | US |
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| Established | 1973 |
| Branches | 9 |
| Website | Loudoun County Public Library |
Loudoun County Public Library (LCPL), with more than 200 employees, both professional and paraprofessional, serves the citizens of Loudoun County, Virginia. There are currently eight physical branches, plus Outreach Services, which offers services to the disabled, elderly, and homebound.
LCPL's mission statement calls the library "the community's information center," which "provides free and equal access to a full variety of library resources and innovative technologies to enhance the quality of life and meet the informational, educational and cultural interests of the entire community."
In 2006 the system came in tenth place for libraries serving comparably sized populations, according to Hennen's American Public Library Ratings (HAPLR).
The nine branches range in size from large regional libraries to small neighborhood branches. Outreach services is the traveling branch of the Loudoun County Public Library, although its offices are located in Leesburg.
Each branch has an advisory board that helps support the library and raise funds. Another source of funding is the annual book sale put on by the Loudoun Library Foundation.
The LCPL system branch libraries are:
In 1974 the Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg joined the Loundoun County Public Library system. In 1994 its ownership was transferred to the Town of Leesburg to operate as a historical and genealogical library.
The administration building for the Loudoun County Public Library system is located in Leesburg, Virginia. The building is combined with The Senior Center of Leesburg. The current Director of the Loudoun County Public Library system is Chang Liu.
The Loudoun County Public Library system was established in 1973. In the beginning, the only libraries in the system were the Purcellville branch, the Purcellville bookmobile, and Sterling branch. The next year, the Thomas Balch Library, located in Leesburg, Virginia would join the system. Other branches would join over the years, most recently of which is the Gum Spring Library, which was constructed in February, 2013. The Thomas Balch Library would later leave the system, after being transferred to the city of Leesburg, Virginia in 1994 to serve as a dedicated history and genealogy library.
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