Coweta Public Library System
group of public libraries in Georgia, US
The Coweta Public Library System (CPLS) is a group of four public libraries in Coweta County, Georgia, United States. The branches serve the towns of Grantville, Newnan, and Senoia.
The Coweta County Public Library uses the interlibrary loan system to share books between its branches. Members of the county library may check out and return books to any location and have access to over 180,000 books in the library collection. The loaning of books can be completed through a physical or digitized format through the reading apps Libby and Overdrive.
History
The first public library in Coweta County was a Carnegie library funded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1901. Accordingly, a teenager in the town of Newnan wrote to Carnegie requesting funds for a public library, and he provided a grant for $10,000 with the condition that the town continue to pay for the running of the library after construction. Construction began on August 4, 1903, and concluded the following year.
In 1987 the Carnegie library was replaced by a new building constructed on Hospital Road in Newnan. This new branch, the A. Mitchell Powell Jr.
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