Linda Smith - President

Judith Dann  - Vice President

Stacy Blackburn - Secretary

Homer, Ohio is known as the birthplace of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States in 1872, a full 48 years before women had the right to vote.

The Homer Public Library traces its origins to January 30, 1895, when A. H. Wright, T. N. Dean and others met in the Homer Town Hall to organize a Reading Circle which they named the Homer Library Association. 

The town hall meeting place was known as "The Reading Room" with members donating books and adhering to a set of rules adopted by the Association.  Each member owned shares according to the number of books donated.

In 1970, a new facility was built and the library moved to its present location.  The new building contained 2,600 square feet.  As the population of the surrounding area has grown, so has the library.  New additions were built in 1983, 1990 and 1998 bringing the total area of the library to over 8,000 square feet. Finally, in 2006, the library acquired the adjacent building and land from the Homer Volunteer Fire Department.  This acquisition brought the library additional meeting space for the community and storage space for library usage.  Additionally, the library gained ownership of its adjacent parking lot.  The library now has an area of over 10,000 square feet, offers over 35,000 books, periodicals and other materials and has 7 public computers providing broadband internet access.

Monday, Tuesday & Thursday

10:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Wednesday

10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Friday

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Saturday

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

NEW MATERIALS - DECEMBER 2018

Adult Fiction:

Bloody Sunday by Ben Coes (Large Print)

Death by Dragonfly by Jane Tesh

His Promise by Shelley Shepard Gray (Large Print)

In Her Bones by Kate Moretti (Large Print)

Indigo Lake by Jodi Thomas (Large Print)

MacKinnon by Johnny D. Boggs

Mexican Standoff by Giles Tippette (Large Print)

Nine Must Die by Lee E. Wells (Large Print)

Tiffany Blues by M.J. Rose (Large Print)

The White Christmas Inn by Colleen Wright (Large Print)

Adult Nonfiction:

The Curse of Oak Island by Randall Sullivan

Dreaming in Turtle by Peter Laufer

In the Big Thicket by Rob Riggs

It's Not Supposed to be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst

Just Smile and Say Hello by Trang Morland

Kindness and Salt by Ryan Angulo

The Little Big Things by Henry Fraser

The Luckiest Man by John R. Paine

The Mayo Clinic Diet by Donald D. Hensrud

The Parenting Project by Amy Alamar

The Point of It All by Charles Krauthammer

Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle by Heather Smith Thomas

Wasn't That a Time by Jesse Jarnow

The Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox by Katie Wells 

Why We Dream by Alice Robb

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story by William Hazelgrove

Juvenile Fiction:

Fire Truck Dreams by Sharon Chriscoe

Little Bear Dreams by Paul Schmid

Little Owl's Snow by Divya Srinivasan

Llama Llama, Be My Valentine! by Anna Dewdney

Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo 

My Father's Words by Patricia MacLachlan

Owls are Good at Keeping Secrets by Sara O'Leary

Sleep, My Bunny by Rosemary Wells

Juvenile Nonfiction:

I Wish I was a Polar Bear by Jennifer Bove

Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids by Rob Elliott

DVDs:

Sentimental Reflections

Blu-Ray:

The Little Stranger

Operation Finale

CDs:

White Christmas by Emile Pandolfi

View our current calendar of events and library newsletter below:

The library offers the following services:

     Borrowing:

          Books

          Periodicals

          Books on Tape and CD

          Music CDs

          Movies on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Blu-Ray 3D

          12-in-1 Musical Instrument Kits

          Ukuleles

     Reference

          Extensive Local History Collection

          Special Agriculture Collection        

     Computer Usage

          7 Public Access Computers with Broadband Internet Access

          Printing of Information at Nominal Cost

     Copy Services

     Fax Services

     Inter Library Loan services from over 90 libraries that are members of the SEO Consortium

     Meeting Rooms

Library Director

Amie Hatfield

Fiscal Officer

Chet Geiger

Librarians

Maggie Berndsen

Pat Blacksten

​Phyllis Buxton

Vivian Cooke

Lisa McKimmins

​Kathy Megaw

​Lauren Stoolfire