This page is where you can come to learn about our recent library expansion. This has been a dream of our library for many years. So many past board members and staff have worked hard to make it possible. A huge thank you to the Washington County Riverboat Foundation, the City of Wellman, and our community for their support in making this expansion a reality!

Library Reopen! Come in and check it out

We are so pleased to say that we are officially reopen in our beautifully expanded location!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Grand Reopening celebration on Saturday, March 23rd. We were happy to see everyone there and enjoyed sharing our new space with the community.

Thank you to the members of the Washington County Riverboat Foundation, as well as the City of Wellman officials, for joining us and their support throughout this project. We are immensely thankful to them!

We are open normal hours (M-Th 10am – 6pm, Fri 10am – 4pm, & Sat 10am-1pm). We hope to see you in the library soon!

Wellman SCofield Public Library Awarded Grant

November 16, 2022 was very momentous for our library. We cannot possibly put into words how thankful we are for the Washington County Riverboat Foundation. They chose to award us full funding for our grant to expand the library. We are grateful beyond measure! Also, a big thank you to the City of Wellman for their support with this project. We cannot wait to see it all finished!!

The library will be expanding into the space on the East end of our building, formerly the Senior Dining Center. This addition will nearly double our current square footage and give us space for some much-needed improvements! We will be adding not only additional shelf space, but a programming room, study room, additional bathrooms, expanding our children’s area, and more!

We are so thankful for all of the support we have received from our community!

When you support the Wellman-Scofield Public Library, you help to sustain and grow your local library as a place that is accessible and welcoming to all, where individuals and groups can learn and grow, make connections, find inspiration and explore possibilities.

So what is this expansion all about?

This expansion projects is:

Doubling our current space
Increasing our collection shelving
Making our library handicap accessible
Adding a Programming Room
Adding a Study Room
Increasing from a single unisex bathroom to two two-stall bathrooms
Adding much needed storage

how can you help? Please consider Making a Financial Gift

You can give a little or a lot, and in a variety of ways. Whatever and however you give, your support makes a real difference in the lives of our community.

Through the generosity of our donors, you help us create a space for children to learn to read, to help teenagers succeed in school, to help adults prepare for and secure new jobs, and for our community to continue to grow and to thrive.

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New Library Layout Preview

Here is a look at the plans for our library expansion. You may have seen different plans previously. We have worked with our architect to re-evaluate the remodeling plans, updating them to better use the existing structure while making an even better space for the community.

Current Location

Our current location is roughly 2,500 square feet with only one single-stall restroom and no room for storage or programming. While this location has served our library for many years, we have outgrown its wall and are excite to expand into the vacant space to the east that formerly housed the Senior Center and Alternative Learning Center.

Expanded Library

Our expansion is set to double our current space, providing us with not only much needed additional shelving for our growing library, but also an amazing programming room, two two-stall bathrooms, storage, a librarian work room, and greater accessibility to our library. While this rough layout will change slightly as our expansion moves forward, it is so exciting to see this project coming to fruition. Again, we cannot thank the Washington County Riverboat Foundation and all of our donors for their support in making this a reality for our community!!

A peek at our fundraising events

Dino Adventure Fun!

With over 950 people in attendance, our Dino Adventure was a blast! We had games, a fossil dig, a maze, a virtual reality room, big dinosaurs, and more for everyone to enjoy. A huge thank you to everyone who came out to make this event a success, especially our volunteers who made this possible. We were able to raise $1500 towards our library expansion.

TRIVIA NIGHT SUCCESS

We had a fantastic turnout for our first big fundraiser! We had almost 20 trivia teams attend the event and our silent auction was also a huge success. We are happy to report that we raised almost $3,500! We are so thankful to our community for supporting this event!