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The Reynoldsburg Branch moved to a temporary home in 2022. After a wall breaking ceremony in August, demolition began in September 2022. The new Reynoldsburg Branch will be nearly twice as large, and will open in 2024.

On March 4, 2023, Columbus Metropolitan Library celebrated both its 150th birthday and the re-opening of the Gahanna Branch. Children and staff celebrate the opening with confetti.

It now hosts our youngest branch, but Canal Winchester has been a service point for a long time. The community opened the first county library station in 1937, and was later served by a bookmobile. The branch opened at its present location on 115…

Children participate in a Summer Reading Challenge program in 2019.

The New Albany Branch opened in 1998 at the local high school, and featured a brick building with a dome, which the library’s amenities encircled. New Albany Branch moved to its own building in 2003.

The Hilltop Branch that opened in 1996 included several features from the Columbus State Hospital, most notably several stained-glass windows, which are featured in the current building too. The hospital was demolished in 1997, even though it was on…

Karl Road Branch replaced Morse Road Branch in 1988. Pictured here are men moving one of many, many carts of books from the old location to the new one.

The original South High building, opened in 1971, is shown here in September of 1978, with a card catalog and several browsing customers. A new branch was built in 1992.

Geneva Jackson, a retired teacher from the Columbus City Schools, checked out the 100,000th item circulated in 1995 at Driving Park Branch, which was the first time Driving Park hit 100,000 circulations in a year! She was gifted a t-shirt, balloons…