[3]: 12  Alabama didn't create a separate agency for funding and administering public libraries until 1959 and did not create a tax-supported system serving every county until 1974.

[3]: 22  The Alabama Department of Archives was created in 1901 and expanded to include a Library Extension Division in 1907.

[3]: 29  In 1931 the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs and the Alabama Library Association promoted legislation that would create and fund a state library agency but it was vetoed by Governor Benjamin Miller.

[3]: 47  In March of 1939, the Public Library Service Division (PLSD) was created within the Alabama Department of Archives with a small budget and its own executive board separate from ADH, with Lois Ranier Green as its first director.

[3]: 54  By 1974, all Alabama counties had access free tax-supported public libraries.