Grand
Isle Library is a small library responding to the
needs of Grand Isle's residents and tourists.
Library cards are available free to
Jefferson Parish residents,
and guest cards are available to non-residents.
New Orleans Public Library card holders in good standing,
through our reciprocal
agreement with NOPL, are entitled to
full Jefferson Parish Library privileges with their
card, at no charge.
Cybermobile at Library Headquarters
before it left for its new home in Grand Isle.
Grand Isle Library
reopened February 1st in its temporary "Cybermobile"
home, on loan from Muncie (IN) Public Library at the
same location as before, 2757-1 La. Hwy. 1, Grand Isle. The Cybermobile is equipped with computers with
internet and library database access.
Look for
Garfield and friends and come aboard!
The Cybermobile at home in
Grand Isle, next to the Library
Come see what's inside!
The Cybermobile
was joined by "Gertie," the 32-foot bookmobile
donated by Waukegan Public Library which arrived at
Jefferson Parish Library headquarters in late March.
Used by permission: Scott Burroughs
/ IllustrationOnLine.com
(Illustration
which first accompanied "The Love Bus,"
an article in
NORTH SHORE magazine (Illinois), August 2006)
Click here
for the story of Gertie's journey.
Gertie's Arrival at Jefferson Parish
Library Headquarters
Gertie was at
her new home in Grand Isle for the Grand Reopening
Ceremony and Ribbon-Cutting, held Thursday, June 7,
2006, with library representatives and local Grand
Isle dignitaries in attendance.
Participating in the ribbon cutting,
left to right:
Elizabeth Reso, Assistant Branch Supervisor, Jefferson
Parish Library; Alice' Thomas, Grand Isle, Library
Page; Euris Dubois, Chief of Police, and Carroll Allemand,
Council Member, Grand Isle; Verdie Richburg, Branch
Supervisor, Jefferson Parish Library; Ray Santiny,
Council Member and Town Clerk, Grand Isle; Tim Kirby,
Grand Isle Library Branch Manager; and Lon Dickerson,
Jefferson Parish Library Director.
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