Morris County Library

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MCL Staff
One-quarter of our staff are Professional Librarians (title of the state certification for those having a masters' degree in library and information science. The librarians at MCL, who collectively have over 400 years of professional experience, have received their degrees from SUNY, Albany and Buffalo; Universities of Maryland, North Carolina and Pittsburgh; San Francisco Conservatory; Louisiana State University; Rutgers; St. Johns; Drexel and Columbia. MCL was named an "Exemplary Service" by the Virtual Reference Desk Project (Syracuse University) in 1999 and two of our staff were each named "Librarian of the Year" by the New York Times, in 2002 and 2003. The library staff is organized into service departments, under these supervisors:

For general information about the library, call the Reference Desk at (973) 285-6969 or drop us a note.

Since 1922
MCL began operations in 1922, a year after Morris County residents voted to support a library. Miss Edith L. Smith was hired as County Librarian, beginning work on July 1, 1922. By the end of the year 10,087 books had been catalogued and 99 library stations had been set up in country stores, schools and town libraries. A library car was purchased to travel throughout the county, delivering books to the stations and 83,000 residents.

On November 18, 1968 MCL moved from the County courthouse in Morristown, to its present location on Hanover Avenue. In 2000 a two story addition was put on the front of the building and the old completely renovated to provide County residents with a 21st century facility. A history of the County Library is available in our collection. MCL serves 493,000 people and joins with municipal libraries in Morris through M.A.I.N., the Morris Automated Information Network. Morris County Library, over its 84 years, has grown from traveling bookmobile to books, media and the Internet.

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Morris County (NJ) Library
3 January 2008
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Top to bottom, Morris County Library in 1923, 1968 and 1932