Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library
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Meeting Rooms
Please call 594-5295 for more information and to reserve the meeting rooms. Please read our Meeting Room Policy & Application (PDF). See meeting rooms available at other library locations.
Print out a Meeting Room Use Application (PDF).
- Large Meeting Room:
- This room is 1000 sq. ft. and accommodates 100 people. Includes a sink.
- Small Meeting Room:
- This room accommodates 12 people.
Computers
You may reserve a computer one time per day. We offer:
- 2 reservable computers with 15 minute sessions
- 20 reservable computers with 60 minute sessions
- 1 Assistive Technology (Disabilities adapted) computer
We offer free computer classes. Call 594-5295 for more information.
We also have wireless internet access available. Bring your laptop and use the library's WiFi network for free. For more information, please see our WiFi FAQ.
History
In 1963, a group of Green Valley residents, led by Coral Olin, started what has become the Conrad-Joyner Green Valley Library of today. The library got its humble start in two closets of a volunteer's apartment, with 50 books loaned by the Tucson Library County Extension Division. Outgrowing the closets, the library moved to a room in the old Fire Department, and then to apartments on Paseo Pena. Then in 1973 a county bond was passed providing funds to build a permanent facility and it formally joined the Tucson-Pima Public Library System a year later. It finally got its permanent home with the support of then-Pima County Supervisor Conrad Joyner and construction was completed in 1976. However, the library continued to share the facility with the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles for several years before becoming the building's sole occupant.
The Joyner-Green Valley branch library was remodeled in 2001 to make space for a computer lab, a new conference room, a larger bookstore and additional parking spaces. The roughly $400,000 project expanded the building by 1,500 square feet, and the Friends of the Green Valley Library raised more than $100,000 toward the project.
Friends of the Green Valley Library
The Friends of the Green Valley Library is an active organization which runs a used bookstore inside the library six days a week. The Friends' Quarterly Newsletter reaches several thousand Green Valleyans and has been instrumental in gathering funds for enhancing the building's facade, as well as encouraging community donations for library items not covered by the Library budget. Find out more...
Local History Archive
Local History Archive Table of Contents:
- Contact the Local History Archive
- Mission Statement
- About the History Collection
Contact Information
For information about the Local History Archive, please call 625-8660.
Mission Statement
The purpose of the Special Collection, Local History Archive at Joyner-Green Valley Library is to:
- Collect documentary materials relevant to the history of Green Valley, Sahuarita, and southern Pima County to be used for research, education, and exhibition
- Develop a list of community resources and actively solicit relevant contributions
- Organize, preserve, and maintain materials for maximum accessibility.
History Collection
Collection Purpose and Content
The Green Valley Area History Collection will provide a forum to engage in the discovery and understanding of the cultural heritage, natural history and unique lifestyle of the Santa Cruz River Valley. The Collection will consist of primary and secondary resource materials, which pertain to Green Valley, Amado, Sahuarita, Elephant Head, Madera Canyon, Magee Ranch and other communities and settlements in the Green Valley area. The topical focus will be the history, culture and social fabric, politics, economy, peoples, languages, literature, geography and natural history of Santa Cruz River Valley. Donations of relevant materials are welcomed, within in the space constraints of the collection, and with a signed Deed of Gift.
The collection includes primary resource documents, secondary materials, newspaper and magazine articles, directories, photographs, maps and other printed materials related to the Green Valley area. Materials will be included in the collection for their intrinsic historical value. Fiction and other literary works which meet the Library's collection development standard for its general collections will be collected when the story is primarily one concerning the Green Valley Area.
Definition of the Collection
- Inclusions
- Monographs and other primary source materials including photographs when related to the Santa Cruz River Valley.
- Printed secondary resource materials.
- Fiction and other ddterary works (in print format) as described above.
- Video-recordings, compact discs, and cassettes with an emphasis on Southern Pima County.
- Exclusions
- Materials written by Green Valley area authors, when the contents are not about the Southern Pima County area.
Service
The Green Valley Area History Collection is housed at the Joyner-Green Valley Library and is available for use by the public during all hours the building is open. All materials must be used in the library and may not be removed from the building.
Service given by library staff and history collection volunteers to patrons in the Green Valley Area History Collection is comparable to that given in the general reference collection. Library staff will suggest titles, make materials available, guide patrons in the use of the collection, and answer reference questions using the collection.
When our resources are not adequate to answer patrons' needs, we may contact, or refer patrons to, other agencies in the community such as the Arizona Historical Society, Special Collections at the University of Arizona Library, the Arizona State Museum, and the City of Tucson Archives.