In the beginning the ladies of the LaFollette Book Club began an effort for a public 

library. Early in 1941 TVA was asked to donate land for a library, without success.

The first library was located in the office of E. E. Hill on the second floor of Peoples Bank.

Citizens were asked to donate books. Members of the Book Club operated the library for a

limited number of hours. The second location for the library was a small room in City

Hall on First Street. When the city needed the room, the library had to move. The library

was then housed at the LaFollette Press for a short time. Guy Easterly and Lansden Hill

were instrumental in promoting the idea of a library for the town.

The Book Club then persuaded the city to provide space in the new LaFollette

Municipal Building on South Tennessee Avenue which was constructed in 1951.

It is from this location that the LaFollette Public Library serves its patrons today.

Present

From this one room in the LaFollette Municipal Building, the library now occupies three.

Presently the original part of library houses the adult collection, reference, current

periodicals, videos, audios, and DVD’s.  The children’s collection is housed in a separate

room. The third room, which originally housed the genealogy collection now located at

the Campbell County Historical Society museum, is used mainly for storage.