...000-square-foot facility replaces Gibbs Library, which Dr. Jeff Hardin, the chairman of the Columbia County library board of trustees, said was an inadequately small space. "I cannot believe it. I've been at this thing for better or worse...

...fond of saying he was working on the library "when country wasn't cool," has served on the county's Library Board of Trustees since 1997 - right about the time the county began studying the growing needs of library patrons. The payoff...

...the library recently stepped down from its governing board. Norma Hickman, a member of the Columbia County Library board of trustees since 2004, attended her final meeting as a board member Nov. 8. Colleagues thanked her for her support of...

...supports. On Sept. 12, the all-volunteer, nonprofit organization presented $20,000 to the Columbia County Library board of trustees. That sum came solely from the sales from the Friends' store in the Columbia County Library on North Belair...

Finally, after 10 years, the new Columbia County Public Library and Jabez Sanford Hardin Performing Arts Center is finished - and operational.