Meet Your Local: Librarian

Originally from Washington, Georgia, Donna Harrington holds a degree in Library
Science from The University of Arizona.

Harrington has worked in Pickens County for the past five of her 15 years of experience
as a librarian. She has also worked in the Bartram Trail Regional Library System in
Washington, Georgia.When speaking with Harrington, she’s eager to share what the library offers to the
community.

Library

Along with a Vocational Readers Club (summer reading program), the library offers
two weekly storytimes for children. “Baby Storytime” is offered every Tuesday morning
at 10:30 AM and “Family Storytime,” for kids a little older, is offered at 10:30 AM every
Wednesday.

The children section also has children’s books on tape, along with a section to listen to
the tapes, and age appropriate VHS movies.

Young adults have their own section in the library with age appropriate literature and
separate from the children’s and adult’s sections.

For adults, the library offers fiction, non-fiction, periodicals, and magazines and also the
ability to register to vote.

A section of the library particularly busy during the tax season has free information and
forms with help on how to fill out your appropriate tax documents.

Each section has age appropriate computers as well. However, children should never
be left unsupervised on the Internet. The library also provides printing, copying, and fax
services.

Citizens may see what books are available in the library online at – http://168.12.177.33/
pac.opac.

Audiobooks are also available for download here.

“Come in and look around and see what we have to offer,” she adds when asked how
citizens can maximize their experience.

The Pickens County Library offers some unique benefits such as the opportunity to
reserve spacious meeting rooms for free; there is a cleaning fee if food is served.

Students may also reserve study rooms equipped with computers for smaller study
groups.

The Special Collections room, with help from the Marble Valley Historical Society, holds
county, state, and region specific information and genealogical records.

An area reserved for the visually impaired is equipped with technology to intensely
magnify books or magazine articles.

DONNA HARRINGTON, MLS
Librarian/Branch Manager
Pickens County Library
Sequoyah Regional Library System
www.seuoyahregionallibrary.org

CONTACT
harrind@seqlib.org
100 Library Lane
Jasper, GA 30143
706-692-5411