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Your Children, Our Priority
Youth Services is proud to offer books, programs, activities and educational resources in a nurturing environment for you and your child to read, play and explore.
Be a Friend of the Harrison County Library
The purpose of the Friends of the Harrison County Public Library is to maintain an association of persons interested in libraries; to focus public attention on the Library; to stimulate the use of the Library’s resources and services; to receive and encourage gifts, endowments and bequests to the Library; to support and cooperate with the Library in developing Library services and facilities for the community and to encourage cultural activities.
Books Sales
Friends of the Harrison County Public Library have book sales every 2nd and 4th Saturdays from 9am – 3pm located in the building in the parking lot behind the Corydon Branch library.
For more information about the Friends program, please visit their website.
Library News
Hats off to the library!
Contributed by Teresa Douglass, Genealogy Specialist This week has been National Library Week, so today we engage in a little shameless self-promotion and salute HCPL with a glance back at our humble beginnings. So hats off to the library and to its many patrons and supporters over the years! Olive Griffin at the lending library […]
Author Janna Matthies visits Lanesville Elementary School
In January 2026, Harrison County Public Library challenged the community to read 10,000 books together to raise funds for Harrison County Community Service. Eight schools participated in the challenge, with 2,385 students reading over 15,000 books. Lanesville Elementary was the top school this year, with full student participation and more than 3,000 books submitted. As […]
HCPL celebrates National Library Workers Day, highlights staff
Today is National Library Workers Day, a day to highlight the critical role library workers play in keeping libraries running. Throughout today, let’s celebrate by recognizing the amazing staff who work at Harrison County Public Library. Circulation Staff Makerspace Staff Reference Staff Youth Services Staff Frederick Porter Griffin Center Staff […]
Are you ready for spring cleaning?
Contributed by Teresa Douglass, Genealogy Specialist This 1947 ad for Herb Habermel’s Drug Store suggests a few products to get you started – all at rock bottom prices! Pharmacist Herb Habermel (1904-1955) and his wife, Francis, opened a drugstore at 117 E. Chestnut Street in Corydon in August 1945 (this property was most recently occupied […]
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