WHO ARE WE? – Hood County Library Foundation

Board of Trustees:

Susan Scott, President
Nancy Wright, Vice President
Mary Cheyne, Secretary
David Wells, Treasurer

Jennifer Logsdon, Library Director (ex officio)
Representative, Friends of the Library (ex officio)

Mary Cheyne
Harold Granek
Patti Birney
Pat Rosetti
Gene Auerbach
Monty Lewis
Rose Simpson
Ernestine Shugart, Advisory Trustee
Dominique Inge, Advisory Trustee

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.

Mission Statement

It is the mission of the Hood County Library to serve all residents of the County by offering a wide variety of materials to enrich their personal, educational, and professional growth. Our special mission to children and their parents is to encourage a love of reading and a desire for learning. By offering a well balanced collection in various formats and by utilizing changing technology, the Library strives to help its patrons discover new ideas, the joy of learning, and the power of information.

Hood County Library

222. N. Travis Street Granbury, TX 76048
TEL: 817-573-3569
FAX: 817-573-3969

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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.