During the upcoming renovation process to the John McIntire Library, the Muskingum County Library System will be relocating some of its affiliated services that call the library home.
Muskingum County Genealogical Society Treasurer Brooke Anderson shared what the organization brings to the public, along with plans for how they will continue their services throughout the library’s renovations process.
“Genealogy Society will be moving to the library at Herrold Hall at Ohio University Zanesville,” Anderson said. “Our last day here, open to the public, is Saturday, September the 13th. We then hope to reopen by either the end of October or beginning of November, out at OUZ. We will not be able to take all of our materials with us because of space. So we will be focusing on our family histories, our yearbooks, and the items that pertain more to the local area.”
The Genealogical Society is having a book sale during their normal hours of operation that will consist of duplicate materials and historical literature that has less to do with local genealogy.
“Once we are at Herrold Hall, we will announce that opening date on our Facebook, on our public library site and all of those usual sources. And we plan to be open right now, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. We looked at some other spaces but that was the one that had the most space to give us. That is a temporary location. Once the remodeling is done, we will be back in our same location, with a little bit more room than we have right now,” Anderson said.
The Genealogical Society has been a fixture of the John McIntire Library since 1992 serving the public by providing access to hard to find documentation inside a convenient location.