Jacksonville Friends of the Library Oregon

Jacksonville Friends of the Library Oregon Volunteers encouraging, promoting, supporting, and aiding the Jacksonville Branch of the Jackson County Library System. Meetings are open to the public. Join us!

JFOL was established by Citizens of Jacksonville to encourage, promote, support, and aid the Jacksonville branch of the Jackson County Library Services. JFOL is a 501(c)(3) non-profit with a five-member Board of Directors. Annual Membership dues are $10 Individual, $20 Family, and $100+ Patron. Meetings are held at the Library. Volunteers from the Membership are always needed to staff the book sales and events.

04/08/2026

Oregon loves libraries, and we love our library users!

01/04/2026

Most Americans had never heard of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon – until 10 years ago today, when a clutch of armed men and women stormed the birders’ paradise to make a point about the federal government, the state of the country, American history and themselves.

Law enforcement rushed to the out-of-the-way federal land in Harney County, but the media-savvy invaders – led by Ammon Bundy of Bunkerville, Nevada – remained holed up there for more than a month, talking to reporters about what they viewed as the unjust conviction of two Oregon ranchers for arson and about how they believed the U.S. government should turn over most of its vast property holdings in the American West to the states.

The standoff finally ended in mid-February of 2016, two weeks after one of the wildlife-refuge occupiers, Robert LaVoy Finicum, was shot to death during a confrontation with the FBI and Oregon State Police on U.S. 395 near the town of Burns.

Read more here: https://theoregonian.visitlink.me/aZuOdw

10/05/2025
04/30/2025
April 23
04/24/2025

April 23

❗️Training Notification❗️

Over the next week you may see firefighters training at a residence at West C St and N Oregon St. Please do not be alarmed, this is only a training drill.

If you have any questions feel free to contact us at (541) 899-7246

03/16/2025

In a new executive order, President Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.

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