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 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. 1963 The idea for a Library in
Hood County began with the Junior Woman's Club (now known as Granbury Woman's Club). 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.
Diana "Cookie" Haun, Youth Librarian
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
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.