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On Thursday, June 25th, we will be making Red, White, & Blue Suncatchers at 2 p.m. at the Scottsboro Public Library. We...
06/23/2026

On Thursday, June 25th, we will be making Red, White, & Blue Suncatchers at 2 p.m. at the Scottsboro Public Library. We have several different designs.

The Scottsboro Public Library will be closed on July 3 & 4, for the 4th of July holiday. The library will reopen on July...
06/23/2026

The Scottsboro Public Library will be closed on July 3 & 4, for the 4th of July holiday.
The library will reopen on July 6th at 8 a.m.

06/23/2026

The library is one of the few places left in American public life where you're not a customer.

You're a patron. The distinction matters more than it sounds.
A customer is someone to be sold to — someone whose attention is monetized, whose behavior is tracked, whose loyalty is cultivated in service of someone else's bottom line. A patron is someone to be served. The library's entire purpose is to give you what you need — information, materials, space, assistance, community — without asking anything in return except that you treat the place with respect.

Think about how rare that actually is. Every digital space you inhabit is harvesting something from you. Every store you walk into is engineered to extract maximum spend. Even the spaces that feel free — social media, search engines, streaming platforms — are businesses built on the monetization of your attention and your data. Most of us have simply made peace with that.

The library never made that trade. It still hasn't.

It was built on a radical idea — that a community should pool its resources to ensure that every single one of its members, regardless of income or education or status, has access to the accumulated knowledge of human civilization. That idea is so old and so deeply embedded in American civic life that we've largely stopped noticing it. We walk past library buildings every day without registering what they represent.

What they represent is a deliberate rejection of the logic that everything of value must be bought and sold. A public library says: some things belong to everyone. Knowledge belongs to everyone. The freedom to read, to learn, to ask questions, to sit quietly and think — these things belong to everyone.

That model is increasingly rare. And it turns out, in a world that has thoroughly commodified almost every corner of human experience, people need it more than ever.

What does your library mean to you beyond just borrowing books?

Join the Scottsboro Book Club to discuss the book, "What happened to Ruthy Ramirez" on Thursday, June 25 at 5 p.m.
06/22/2026

Join the Scottsboro Book Club to discuss the book, "What happened to Ruthy Ramirez" on Thursday, June 25 at 5 p.m.

We will be creating some Patriotic Pop Art tomorrow at 2 p.m. We hope you will join us. Can't wait to see everyone's cre...
06/22/2026

We will be creating some Patriotic Pop Art tomorrow at 2 p.m. We hope you will join us. Can't wait to see everyone's creations.

This week we are doing patriotic themed crafts. We hope you will join us for our fun events this week.
06/22/2026

This week we are doing patriotic themed crafts. We hope you will join us for our fun events this week.

Join us for Builders Afternoon at the Scottsboro Public Library on June 22 from 2 - 3:30 p.m.Enjoy an afternoon of Lego ...
06/20/2026

Join us for Builders Afternoon at the Scottsboro Public Library on June 22 from 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Enjoy an afternoon of Lego fun for all age. While you're at the library, sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge.

Here are our programs for next week. Hope you and your family will join us for all our events.
06/20/2026

Here are our programs for next week. Hope you and your family will join us for all our events.

Join us for a special event at The Scottsboro Boys Museum tomorrow (June 20) at 12 p.m.Unearth clues, solve puzzles, an...
06/19/2026

Join us for a special event at The Scottsboro Boys Museum tomorrow (June 20) at 12 p.m.
Unearth clues, solve puzzles, and learn a little local history along the way.
The program will last about an hour and is geared toward older children, teens, and adults, but families are welcome to work together.

The Other Worlds Book Club will be discussing "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown on Tuesday, June 23 at 5:30 p.m. at the Scott...
06/18/2026

The Other Worlds Book Club will be discussing "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown on Tuesday, June 23 at 5:30 p.m. at the Scottsboro Public Library. Come and join them.

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1002 S Broad Street
Scottsboro, AL
35768

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8am - 5:30pm
Friday 8am - 12pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

Telephone

(256) 574-4335

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