Board of Trustees:
Susan Scott, President
Nancy Wright, Vice President
Mary Cheyne, 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
Felecia Peters
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.
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. |