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During that year the Columbine Club organized a library that was initially housed as a small 40 volume collection in City Hall.
Initial funding came from the Valdosta City Council at $15 per month, and by 1903 the collection had grown to 1500 books.
[6] The library was housed in a room of the Corbett Building from 1904 to early 1908, but soon moved back to the city hall.
1 and remained so the building was acquired by the Lowndes County Historical Society who have maintained it since the purchase in 1976.
The reading needs of the African American community in Lowndes County, would go unserviced by a library until 1955.
There were two smaller branches in Haharia City Hall and in the Methodist Church in Statenville.
That same year a second bookmobile was purchased to service the needs of the African American community in the system.
1 was closed down due to unsafe conditions inside involving the ceiling buckling.
Its establishment was done to assist the literacy needs of the large black population in downtown Valdosta.
[10][15] In 2010 both the Johnston Lakes and Salter Hahira libraries underwent renovations for upgrade their outdated facilities.
[12][13] The most recent renovation occurred in 2012 at the Miller Lakeland Library in order to reconfigure the layout of the building to allow ease of access for patrons and librarians, and to install new lighting and carpeting throughout.