LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library
The first Leon County library opened in 1956 in The Columns before moving to the old Elks Club building on North Monroe Street in May 1962.
The in 1978 it was transferred again as the Leon County Mail Library to the Northwood Mall and was increased from 12,000 to 44,000 square feet.
One of the retired ones were used as a location for the Parkway Branch Library that was moved into the Cross Creek Square Shopping Center in 1997.
In 2011 that 2,000-square-foot location was then closed and transferred to a new 12.000-square-foot LEED-certified building on Pedrick Road and renamed to Eastside Branch Library in November of that year.
Originally situated in the Northampton Shopping center in 1994, the Northeast branch moved to a building on Thomasville road in June 2000.
The library addition led to the creation of the Woodville Founders' Festival when Verna Brock became the director of the branch.
In addition to these materials, in 2021, Leon County library leaders announced they had received a $15,000 grant to expand their Library of Things, allowing patrons to save money by borrowing larger, more expensive limited-use items such as power tools, telescopes and kayaks.
[7] Another service offered is Tech Help 1 on 1 in which a patron can book a library staff for a one-hour session to learn basic computer skills, help with their mobile devices, learn on the library's desktop PC and basic internet skills.
[10] In 2018, the library was awarded a grant by the Florida Humanities Council to offer activities that went along with The Great American Read.
[11] January 2017, the Eastside Branch Library was awarded Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).
[12] In 2011 and 2019, the library received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Program.
The first series happened in April 2017, in which the Director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Dr. George Boebinger, spoke about the research being conducted at the Mag Lab in Tallahassee, FL.
