Seneca Free Library Fund

Specific Need

The Seneca Free Library accepts charitable contributions from private donors and businesses with ongoing pursuits of environmental enhancement and improvements, programming expansion and opportunity seeking, and resource materials expansion beyond our annual budget. With your donations we have the opportunity to take what we do well, and so something extraordinary for our patrons and community.

Mission

To provide for the needs of the Seneca Public Library as a building and a as community resource with physical, technological, and educational offerings.

Profile

The Seneca Free Library, established in 1917,  is located at the corner of 6th and Main Streets. The old stone church, which now houses the library community room, was built in 1867. In a 1928 election it was voted to turn the church into a public library, and with the help of the Seneca Women’s Club, the library moved into this space in 1931. The main library was constructed in 1996.

The public library serves the Seneca area community of about 2,300 people. The library has a collection of over 23,000 books, DVDs, audio books, magazines and newspapers.

The library uses a shared catalog which allows patrons access to nearly a million items. The library also houses many genealogical resources, including WPA birth, death, and marriage records, county cemetery records, county history books, Nemaha County family histories, and Seneca newspapers from the 1800’s on microfilm and digitally. 

Services offered at the library include interlibrary loan across the state, wireless internet, public access computers, copying, printing, wireless printing, faxing, and so much more.  There are both adult and children’s programs throughout the year. More information about the library and programs may be found on the library website, senecafreelibrary.org Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.