Centreville Regional Library to Celebrate 20 Years

The  will celebrate its 20th anniversary from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 19.

“The focus of our 20th anniversary celebration is community and the library’s role in the Centreville community,” Christine Jones, the branch manager, said in a pres release. “We want residents to know about all of the resources available at the library: the books, eBooks, CDs, wifi, databases, programs, meeting rooms and staff. We invite everybody to help us celebrate 20 years of service and community.”  

There will be activities for kids, like face-painting, in the morning, and activities adults in the afternoon. Programs that require registration include:

• KayDee Puppets at 10:30 a.m.
• Once Upon a Dragon with storyteller Gary Lloyd at 1 p.m.
• A Peek Into the Past: Centreville’s Civil War Days at 3 p.m.

To sign up call 703-830-2223 or visit the library’s website.

The event is cosponsored by the Friends of the Centreville Regional Library and the Fairfax Library Foundation.

The Centreville Regional Library opened at its present location on the grounds of the DeBell Farm, one of the area’s last dairy farms. on May 18, 1992. A storefront library had existed in the Newgate Shopping Center since 1970, but the rapid growth of western Fairfax County required a new, larger branch in the early 1990s.

Today, each month 29,000 people walk through the doors of the Centreville Regional Library and check out more than 55,000 items.