Board of Trustees:

Susan Scott, President
Mary Cauble, Vice President
Janie Jones, Secretary
David Wells, Treasurer

Jennifer Logsdon, Library Director (ex officio)
Ann Jalbert, President of the Friends of the Library (ex officio)


Mary Cheyne
Harold Granek
Nancy Wright
Amy Smith
Lula Pope
Monty Lewis
Ernestine Shugart, Advisory Trustee
Dominique Inge, Advisory Trustee

 

Staff:

Karen Rasco, Library Director
Diana "Cookie" Haun, Youth Librarian

In addition to the Hood County Library Foundation, the Library benefits from the active support of another volunteer organization: the Friends of the Hood County Library.

© 2023 Hood County Library Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Site hosted and built by: Lone Star PC Repair, LLC.

1963

The idea for a Library in Hood County began with the Junior Woman's Club (now known as Granbury Woman's Club).
1964 Friends of the Library for Hood County organized to establish a public library.
1964-1968 Friends of the Library organized book drives and provided volunteer staffing for the library at its several initial locations (from a room in the GISD administration building, to the Nutt House building, to a location on the south side of the Historic Square).
1968

Opening of the Hood County Library with a new building provided by former Hood County resident, Floyd West, with the stipulation that the library would be county supported.

A library tax was approved by Hood County voters.

The Hood County Commissioners' Court appointed a nine-member Hood County Library Advisory Board, with its first meeting held on October 17, 1968 in the office of County Judge Marion Thomas.
1968-1974 Nettie Baccuss served as first Director of the Hood County Library.
1974-2004 Jeanell Morris served as Director of the Hood County Library.
1977 First library expansion with exterior stone supplied by Floyd West from an old stone fence on his Squaw Creek ranch.
1995-1996 Additional library expansion.
2004-2011 Shari McAllister served as Library Director of the Hood County Library.
2008 Hood County Library Foundation organized.
2011-2015 Courtney Kincaid served as Library Director of the Hood County Library.
2016 Karen Rasco appointed as Library Director of the Hood County Library.
2017 Hood County Commissioners' Court votes to expand Library.
2019 Jennifer Logsdon appointed as Director of the Hood County Library.
2022 Hood County Commissioners' Court votes to purchase Bookmobile.