Beauregard Parish Library
The Library is one of the State's four sites for The Foundation Center's Co-operating Collections for grants information from corporations and foundations for non-profit and governmental agencies. Since 1991, the Library has been serving the Southwest Louisiana and East Texas area for those seeking grants to carry out their projects. The collection has recently been up-dated to include cdrom based information as well as the print materials.
The Local History Collection provides information on the people, places, and events that have shaped our heritage. Video cassette tapes recorded from an on-going series of presentations sponsored by the local Museum provides valuable oral history by those who were participants.
The Adult New Readers collection provides supplemental reading materials for literacy activities. A computer for literacy activities with appropriate software was added to this collection in 1998.
Services
The Library provides a full range of traditional library services enhanced by reference by telephone, fax, and e-mail; graphical Internet access from in-house and modem lines; library materials renewals by telephone or e-mail; on-line catalog searching, library request on-line, and library card applications on-line.
Programs
Free classes on topics such as Introduction to Hardware and Software, Marketing on the Internet; Web Page Design; Business Opportunity on the Internet; Introduction to the Internet are taught by volunteers, library staff or in cooperation with other agencies such as the Orange Electronic Commerce Resource Center and Lamar University.
Adult services programming is provided once a month to area nursing homes. Recent events included a "memorabilia collection" of once familiar household items; a poetry day, and a grandparents program.
Preschool story times, young adult activities, summer youth programs, home school programs, and special touring performers are all part of the array of services for the younger library users. The Library's mobile electronic library will be used at a newly established after school center for use in the "homework center" time and for educational software access.
Statistics
The Library's circulation of 381,017 ranked it number one in per capita circulation in the State in 1996. With a collection of 61,498 items and 39 patron visits per hour, the Library is a busy place.
Local Facts of Interest
The Library received the Louisiana Library Association's Modisette Award For Public Libraries in March 1998.
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