Jefferson County Library Cooperative
@jeffcolibal.bsky.social
A Cooperative Service Provided by the Public Libraries In Jefferson County, Alabama.
"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed." - Germaine Greer
January 29, 2026 at 6:51 PM
"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed." - Germaine Greer
All Public Libraries in Jefferson County will be closed Monday, January 19, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 15, 2026 at 11:10 PM
All Public Libraries in Jefferson County will be closed Monday, January 19, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
“To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.” — Haruki Murakami
January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
“To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.” — Haruki Murakami
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” -- Jean-Paul Sartre
January 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” -- Jean-Paul Sartre
"The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card." — EL Doctorow
January 6, 2026 at 11:18 PM
"The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card." — EL Doctorow
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."
― J.D. Salinger,
― J.D. Salinger,
January 2, 2026 at 2:02 AM
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."
― J.D. Salinger,
― J.D. Salinger,
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” ― Annie Evett
January 1, 2026 at 6:27 PM
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” ― Annie Evett
All public libraries in Jefferson County will be closed on Thursday. Check here to see the libraries' hours, www.jclc.org/info/holiday...
December 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
All public libraries in Jefferson County will be closed on Thursday. Check here to see the libraries' hours, www.jclc.org/info/holiday...
"The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community." – Paula Poundstone
December 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community." – Paula Poundstone
“Libraries are the most wonderful places in the world!” - Stan Lee
December 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“Libraries are the most wonderful places in the world!” - Stan Lee
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.” -- Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.” -- Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson
"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you" - Keith Richards
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you" - Keith Richards
“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait in line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.” ~ from David Levithan and Rachel Cohn's Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait in line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.” ~ from David Levithan and Rachel Cohn's Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
My mother and my father were illiterate from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They could not believe that it was free. -- Kirk Douglas
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My mother and my father were illiterate from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They could not believe that it was free. -- Kirk Douglas
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim." – Linton Weeks
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim." – Linton Weeks
"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books." - Thomas Carlyle
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books." - Thomas Carlyle
“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.” ― Elizabeth Drew
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.” ― Elizabeth Drew
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” ― Astrid Lindgren
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” ― Astrid Lindgren
"When I graduated from high school... I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years." - Ray Bradbury
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"When I graduated from high school... I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years." - Ray Bradbury
Many JCLC member libraries will be closed on Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day. You should check before you go.
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Many JCLC member libraries will be closed on Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day. You should check before you go.