During their January 25, 2023 meeting, the Friends of the Library approved a donation of $50,000 to the Dothan Houston County Library System in support of a wide range of library projects and initiatives. The Friends raised these funds over the course of 2022, primarily through memberships, the Big Book Sale, and ongoing “mini bookRead More…
The Dothan-Houston County Library System received a $10,000 boost for an outreach program that puts more STEAM in a local city school. Last year, the library system entered into a partnership with the Bright Key program at Selma Street Elementary School in Dothan, Library Director Chris Warren said. “We had a team of our youthRead More…
DHCLS is excited to be the recipient of a $5,000 donation from the Dothan Area Chamber Foundation in support of our Ashford Library Capital Campaign. Learn more about this generous gift and its impact on the Ashford community from WTVY.
This week, the Dothan Houston County Library System (DHCLS) officially launched a capital campaign to raise funds for the new Ashford Library. In March of 2022, Davis Malone, CEO and President of MidSouth Bank, donated the bank’s former IT Data Center to the Ashford Downtown Redevelopment Authority (ADRA). The ADRA, in turn, donated the facilityRead More…
The Dothan Houston County Library System (DHCLS) will host a Passport Fair from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 22, 2022, at the Westgate Branch, located at 535 Recreation Road, Dothan, AL 36303. DHCLS will have multiple certified passport agents on hand to assist with passport applications and renewals. Attendees do notRead More…
The Dothan Houston County Library System’s first annual Library Mini Golf Classic, presented by Mike Schmitz Automotive Group, was a resounding success, raising a total of $8,775 for the library’s collections, early literacy programs, and community outreach activities. “Considering that this is the first time we’ve done an event like this, this is truly incredible,”Read More…
Shared with permission of Wallace Community College. The Wallace Community College-Dothan (WCCD) Learning Resources Centers System (LRC) and theDothan Houston County Library System (DHCLS) recently renewed their Library Cooperative Agreement, allowing both facilities to provide reciprocal library privileges to patrons, students, staff and faculty of each institution. As a result of the Library Cooperative Agreement,Read More…
The Dothan Houston County Library System (DHCLS) hosted a kickoff for the Summer Reading Program on Monday, May 23. During the event, a total of 288 children, teens, and adults registered for the Summer Reading Program, with many attendees even signing up for their first library cards. “The SRP is a great way to helpRead More…
The Dothan Houston County Library System (DHCLS) is proud to announce that the library has been awarded a $25,000 Arts, Culture and Community Assets Grant from the Daniel Foundation of Alabama. The grant will be used for the installation of the INDEX, an interactive gallery and exhibit space at the Main Library in Downtown Dothan.Read More…
This article originally appeared in the May 2022 edition of of Chamber Connections. By Brad Kimbro Did you know that within 10 miles of the city of Dothan, there are approximately 2,800 available jobs? Did you know that there are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.? And did you know that libraries,Read More…
