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Part 3 - How we have grown in 100 years

History of the Ada Public Library, The library today
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, July 21, 2017

By Rhett Grant, Library Director

 

Many remember the library as a quiet place.  That is not the case today.

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First 100 years of the library

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, July 20, 2017

Rhett Grant, new Ada Public Library director, shows his wife Jenny some of the historical documents describing the first 100 years of the library.  

He gave a talk on Saturday morning about the library's history, although he just came to town from a suburb of Atlanta just a few weeks ago.

History is one of his areas of interest, so although he is new to the community he has already learned a lot about where he works.

The Ada Icon is posting his history of the library in three parts this week. 

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Library assists Ada Food Pantry

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, July 20, 2017

As part of the summer reading program, the Ada Public Library collected 792 items for the Ada Food Pantry.

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Part 2 - How we have grown in 100 years

History of the Ada Public Library, Library moves to current location
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 19, 2017

By Rhett Grant, Library Director
In 1953, the Ada Public Library, moved to its current location. The first patron to check out a book in the new building was two-year old Deborah Hull.

15,000 volumes were moved to the new building with the help of volunteers, such as Professors J.B. Ranny and L.E. Shaeffer; Fred Runser, Butch LaRue and Willis Brown. 

Trucks were supplied by Earl’s Hardware and the Gamble store. The sidewalk was completed by local contractor Grover McElroy. Other volunteer activities included preparing books for classification and stenciling classification numbers on the outside covers of books.  

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How we have grown in 100 years

History of the Ada Public Library, the beginnings in 1917, Part 1 of 3
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 18, 2017

By Rhett Grant, Library Director

Originally a “mere handful of books” placed by the Town and Country League in the women’s restroom at the town hall, the Ada Public Library (founded on June 1, 1917) was taken over by the federation of women’s clubs.   

They formed a library board and funded the library through donations, voluntary subscriptions, and loans of books from the state library and the Ada school board during the summers.  

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More photos from the Exotic Zoo

For example: a Monitor lizard, young peacock, ring-tailed lemur and chinchilla
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, July 14, 2017

By Monty Siekerman
Children love animals, all kinds, and whenever a group in Ada puts on an animal show the children attend in great numbers as was evident this week when the Ada Public Library invited Exotic Zoo to Ada.

Here, Javon Stacks passes around a Flemish Giant Rabbit for youngsters to touch gently.

This breed of domesticated rabbit can weigh more than 20 pounds. The Exotic Zoo is located near Detroit. Most animals there were born on the premises.

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