East Dubuque District Library

The East Dubuque District Library was formed in 1937 as a WPA project.  It was a city library at that time.  In 1997, the library went to referendum to become a district library.  The referendum passed and more than doubled the population served by the  library.  The library began to serve this new population out of its old and very small building on the corner of Sinsinawa and Wisconsin Avenue.  In September of 2007 the library moved to its current location on Wall Street.  We rent this building from the State of Illinois and are in the process of moving to a permanent home.  Moving into the old city hall will give us a larger space with a parking lot.  Computor usage, patron visits and materials ciruclated have all gone up drastically over the past year.  With the addition of a teen room in our current space we have begun to seen and increase in the junior high, teen and young adult population at the library.  The library currently serves a population of 4459 and has three grade schools and one high school in our district.