Welcome to the Friends of the Chattanooga Public Library!Our mission is to support our wonderful public library system and keep Chattanooga libraries thriving, and we could use your support.
You can support our mission by becoming a member of Friends of the Library, purchasing used books at our honor bookstores and semiannual book sales, and by volunteering. |
Become a Member Today!If you would like to become a member of our organization, your membership fee goes directly to supporting Chattanooga Public Libraries and literacy programs through our Friends of the Chattanooga Public Library organization.
If you do not qualify as a Senior or Student, click on "Senior/Student" and select "Family/Individual".
Your support is greatly appreciated! |
Chattanooga Memories Project Announced
Chattanooga Public Library working with local start-up to create a searchable memory database of Gig City
"Chattanooga's history will no longer be tucked away in old archives filled with dusty books or trapped as fleeting memories in people's minds," the Chattanooga Times Free Press article opens. The article calls the Chattanooga Memory Project "an ambitious and revolutionary undertaking." Inspired by the Singapore Memory Project, the video, audio, or text uploaded will be searchable by date or location. For example, users could search for memories around the time of the 2015 Chattanooga Shootings, or find memories from their own neighborhood.
You can sign up for email updates at the official site, chattanoogamemory.com, or read the full announcement article at the Times Free Press. The Times Free Press has also written an article on Chris Cummings, the founder of the collaborating start-up, calling him "the Story Chaser."
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Chattanooga Public Library Offers Professional Recording Studio"Today’s teen library patrons in Chattanooga, Tenn., may be tomorrow’s next big music industry producers, thanks to The Studio at Chattanooga Public Library. The Studio is a 1000-square-foot, three-room recording studio located on the second floor of the Chattanooga Public Library...."
Read the full article or check out everything The Studio has to offer at its official page. |
Grand Opening of Sky Lib at the
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
Sept. 2016
Friends of the Chattanooga Public Library officially launched SkyLib at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport on Tuesday, September 27, 2016.
Mayor Andy Berke and other dignitaries were there to celebrate the first of its kind, an Honor Book Store in an airport.
"Friends of the Library organizations around the world are well known for their used book sales, big and small. The Friends of the Chattanooga Public Library are going even bigger than most with a used book sale in a twenty-four-hour location—their local airport. The Friends are opening Sky Lib, a bookstore at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport that will operate on the honor system, with no staff to watch the books or collect money. Customers will pay the three to five-dollar book cost either into a secured cash box, with a credit card on the Friends’ website, or by picking up an envelope to mail in a check. All proceeds from the bookstore will go to support the Chattanooga Public Library."
- Quoted from an article by Public Libraries Online.
- Quoted from an article by Public Libraries Online.