Main Library Hours
| Monday |
10:00a.m. - 9:00p.m. |
| Tuesday |
10:00a.m. - 9:00p.m. |
| Wednesday |
10:00a.m. - 9:00p.m. |
| Thursday |
10:00a.m. - 9:00p.m. |
| Friday |
10:00a.m. - 7:00p.m. |
| Saturday |
10:00a.m. - 4:00p.m. |
| Sunday (from Labor Day
to Memorial Day) |
1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. |
| Sunday (Summer) |
CLOSED |
Community Satellite Library Hours
| Tuesday |
2:00p.m. - 8:00p.m. |
| Wednesday |
2:00p.m. - 6:00p.m. |
| Thursday |
2:00p.m. - 8:00p.m. |
| Saturday |
10:00a.m - 2:00p.m. |
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Holidays
The library will be closed
the following days in 2008:
- New Year's Day
- Easter
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
History
The DeWitt Library was established in
1934 by Mrs. P. J. (Mildred) Carris when she called the members of the
now defunct DeWitt Civic Club together and asked if they would donate
books they could spare, both juvenile and adult, so that she could catalog
them and form them into a library.
Mrs. Carris, her husband, and two daughters
had come to DeWitt from Detroit, where she taught in the secondary schools.
Mr. Carris, a veteran of World War One, was a pharmacist and had purchased
the Brooks Drug Store in DeWitt and moved his family there.
The first home of the library was a
back room in the old post office building in the one hundred block of
West Main Street. Mrs. Carris worked without pay, building a fire in a
wood stove, doing dusting and other janitorial work along with library
work. The Civic Club took the library as a project and earned money for
new books and shelving.
The library was incorporated as a non-profit
on May 3, 1946. In March of 1962, the DeWitt City Council adopted a resolution
to establish and support the DeWitt District Library - a resolution also
adopted by DeWitt Township on June 3, 1963. A letter dated June 7, 1963,
certified DPL by the Michigan State Library as "... a legally established
district public library eligible to participate in the penal fine distribution
in 1963."
The library had been housed in the upstairs
of the old fire barn in the one hundred block of South Bridge Street and
moved to the Memorial Building at 206 West Washington Street in 1949.
Mr. & Mrs. William Rogerson had given the land for a library but agreed
to a community building, as long as it housed a library.
Librarians besides Mrs. Carris have
been: Gladys Walker, Dorothy Miller, Mamie Archer, and Rhoda Pierson.
Faye Hanson held the position from 1958-1984, Judy Gerred from 1984 -
1998, then Michael Lamb from 1999-2003, and Rene Prado from
2004-2008.
The library changed its name to the
Faye Hanson Public Library in 1982. The name reverted back
to the DeWitt Public Library in the mid-1990's.
A branch was opened at the old Valley
Farms School at 4700 Brook Road, Lansing, in 1981 and closed May 1, 1988.
In 1998 the library moved
to 13101 Schavey Road.
On August 9, 2005, the portions of
Watertown Township in the DeWitt, St. Johns, and Lansing school districts
joined the DeWitt Public Library district.
A Community Center Satellite was
opened in September 2007 to better serve residents in the southern part of
the library district.
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