Hopes for obtaining Carnegie funds for a library were expressed in the Milk River Eagle newspaper by 1901.

A room in the Havre Security State Bank was used to lend out its initial 200 donated books.

The Havre Plaindealer newspaper noted that Glasgow, Montana, fifty miles away, successfully built a Carnegie library in 1908.

By 1911 the women's club and others had lobbied for local tax funding to support a librarian, and the Havre Library Board lobbied the City Council to purchase land at 4th Avenue and 5th Street to build a library.

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