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Franklin County Public Library Awards

  • Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults-2003
    Young Adult Library Services Association
    TIGERS ranked as one of top five library youth programs in the country- second time the Franklin County Public Library received this national award and placed in the top five (National)



  • Betty Davis Miller Award-2003
    Florida Library Association First Place Award for providing exemplary youth services through the TIGERS Program (State)
     

  • Governor Jeb Bush Recognition-2001
    for excellence in literacy services in Franklin County through the FROG Family Learning program (State)
     

  • Horizon Online Magazine (Horizon.com)-1999
    library featured as an outstanding library system providing services to community (National)
     

  • Seventh Annual Newman's Own/Good Housekeeping Recipe Contest-1997
    awarded to Jackie Gay for the Friends of the Franklin County Public Library Carrabelle Branch Building Fund for her outstanding "Franklin County Florida's Own Frankly Fantastic Seafood Gumbo" (National)
     

  • Excellence in Library Service to Young Adults-1997
    Young Adult Library Association
    WINGS rated as one of the top five library youth programs in the county (National)
     

  • David F. Clift Scholarship-1996
    American Library Association scholarship for academic excellence presented to Library Director Eileen Annie Ball to continue Master's Degree in Information Studies at Florida State University (National)
     

  • Community Awareness Award-1996
    Department of Education Summer Food Service Program for outstanding service to the community (State)
     

  • Public Library Friends Award-1996
    Friends of the Libraries USA (FOLUSA)
    ranked number one in the country for providing outstanding support services to a library in the category of a Friends group supporting a public library with a budget of a million dollars or less (National)
     

  • Excellence in Small and/or Rural Public Library Service Award-1995
    Public Library Association
    ranked number one in the country
    in the category of a small and/or rural county public library providing outstanding service to community it serves
    (National)
     

Current Happenings

Friends of the Library Blog

The Franklin County Public Library offers three book clubs:

Eastpoint Branch:
    Wild BEAR Book Club
    First Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

Carrabelle Branch:
    Book Social
    First Thursday, 5:30 p.m.

Online Book Clubs:
    Sponsored by the Friends
    
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