The Cobb County Public Library System (CCPLS) is the system of 17 libraries in Cobb County, Georgia, USA — excluding Smyrna, which runs its own Smyrna Public Library. CobbCat is the online computer database of all CCPLS holdings, replacing the card catalogs.
The CCPLS has a system by which books from any branch can be reserved and picked up at any other branch, usually within three business days. Each business day, each branch is notified of the books requested from it, and the staff selects these books for transport. A county van picks up the books daily and takes them to Central, where they are sorted and sent out on the following morning's run. Likewise, books can be returned to any county library branch. Interlibrary loans from outside the county are possible for items not held by the CCPLS.
Libraries
The system's four regions are defined by the CCPLS, and the regional headquarters (marked in bold) is open on Sundays (1-5PM), with staff rotating in once every few weeks from all libraries in the region. Where indicated, the numbers are the branch numbers. The bookmobile collection was "branch" 60; the law library, located in the county courthouse (Cobb State Court) on Marietta square, was branch 70, but has since been split from the CCPLS.
Central
- Central (1), Marietta, current building opened in 1989 or 1990
- Hattie G. Wilson (formerly Fort Hill, 20)
- Sibley, on South Cobb Drive (Georgia 280) just west of Atlanta Road, south of Marietta
Marietta Place (35), former city of Marietta library
Northeast
- Mountain View Regional, temporarily closed from September 2008 to January 2009 for expansion, book requests and dropoff/pickup from other libraries available
- Merchants Walk, built 1979, temporary regional headquarters per above closure
- Gritters (25), next to Shaw Park, founded 1964 at nearby CCFD fire station
- East Marietta (10)
Northwest
Southwest
- South Cobb Regional (replaced South Cobb, 50, built 1961, joined 1962)
- Sweetwater Valley, Austell (55), joined 1965
- Powder Springs (45)
- Lewis A. Ray, near Smyrna (40); built 1967, replaced Oakdale branch founded 1962
- Stratton, built 1974, on Powder Springs Road (Georgia 360) southwest of Marietta, nearly identical to Gritters building
- Vinings
Merchants Walk branch
In March 2009, the Cobb County Commission approved the sale of the Merchants Walk branch, located at the Merchants Walk shopping center in east Cobb since the 1970s. The site will become part of the shopping center (a new Whole Foods), and the library will lease 10,000 square feet (930 m2) of already-vacant space there free for two years starting in late 2009 or early 2010, while a new library is built at a yet-to-be-determined site nearby, using the proceeds from the sale. This is approximately the same amount of space occupied now by the library, which has operated at capacity for years. It is the third-busiest branch, circulating 543,108 materials in 2008, compared to around 620,000 at Central, and an unknown number at Mountain View. The new library is expected to be about 50% larger. [1] [2]
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