Entry Category: Libraries and Archives - Starting with F

The Fayetteville Public Library (FPL), located at 401 W. Mountain St. in Fayetteville (Washington County), was established in 1916. In the twenty-first century, the award-winning FPL operates in the expanded 190,000-square-foot Blair Library building and circulates more than a million items each year. Crucial to the library’s establishment was a group of citizens led by University of Arkansas (UA) librarian Julia Vaulx. The first year, it operated on an $840.15 budget and occupied two rooms in the Washington County Courthouse basement. The library moved briefly to a cottage at East Ave. and Meadow St. and, in 1937, settled in the city administration building, where it remained for twenty-five years. Irene D. Galloway became head librarian in 1935, and the library …