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The Divide County Library welcomes gifts of library materials, money, or real property. These gifts help enrich and improve public library resources. a) Monetary contributions are added to the library’s Donation Fund, which is allocated by the Library Board and Library Director for the purchase of materials or programs too expensive or specialized for theContinue reading “Divide County Library Gift and Donation Policy”

Interlibrary Loan Policy Divide County Public Library Purpose of Interlibrary Loan Interlibrary Loan (ILL) represents a mutual agreement among libraries in North Dakota and throughout the United States to share their library resources.  Through ILL, we are able to borrow materials from other libraries that are not available in our library system.  While we tryContinue reading “Interlibrary Loan Policy“

Intellectual Freedom The Divide County Library is committed to the principles of intellectual freedom and affirms the American Library Association’s Freedom to Read the statement and the Library Bill of Rights.  As such, materials representing diverse viewpoints on topics, including controversial ones, are actively collected.  The selection of an item does not indicate that theContinue reading “Reconsideration Policy”

Display and Distribution of Community Materials Policy Divide County Public Library Items that publicize community, county, and local organizations and events that further the role of the Library as the central source of civic, cultural, educational, and recreational information.  The Library welcomes and encourages the display of such information. Bulletin board display space is availableContinue reading “Display and Distribution of Community Materials Policy”

Divide County Library Circulation Policy Service Policy: Circulation The goal of the Divide County Public Library is to have citizens use the collection as much as they need and want.  However, the library has to ensure equitable access to circulating materials for all library users and, therefore, establish specific loan periods.  The Divide County PublicContinue reading “Divide County Library Circulation Policy”

The Crosby Library was founded under the leadership of Mrs. Guy Grove in 1912.  In 1913, the first building was built at the north end of Main Street, in what is now the courthouse square.  In 1918, due to war, volunteers were not to be found, so the books were turned over to Crosby HighContinue reading “History of Divide County Library”

Check out our renovations! We are so excited to have such an amazing library!!!  These are the BEFORE pictures~