Marengo Union Library District Careers in Marengo, IL

Your library was not always the bustling, high-tech, high-energy place that you know and love today. 120 years ago, the library consisted of 300 books and magazines in one small room and served a population of 1,445 patrons. Today, the Marengo Public Library District resides in one slightly bigger room, has 61,224 items, and serves approximately 15,000 patrons. Oddly enough, the earliest and the most current versions of our library were in the same building! We actually started out on the (now non-existent) second floor of our current building, above the aisles where the adult non-fiction books about astronomy, cooking, and computers are located today. The library was housed in five different locations between the first and this most recent dwelling, making our current space the seventh home of the library. In March of 1884, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened a public reading room on the second floor of the W. F. Abbott Furniture and Undertaking Parlor on Main Street . Local patrons donated t