About Us

Stinesville Community Library serves families and children in the town of Stinesville, Indiana and the Monroe County Bean Blossom township area. We build community by sharing a love of books, reading, and old fashioned small town values.

A room with a large pile of children's books and stack of magazines on a table, a ladder, and a window with sunlight shining through showing the library under construction.

Stinesville Community Library serves families and children in the town of Stinesville, Indiana and the Monroe County Bean Blossom Township area. We build community by sharing a love of books, reading, and old-fashioned, small town values.

Our town has a legacy of neighbors caring for one another and strong community ties. Stinesville Community Library’s story begins with the closing of Stinesville Elementary School in 2018. For several years the books on the historic elementary school’s shelves gathered dust.

Then in 2022, local community members joined together to write grants, catalog books, paint walls, move and put together furniture, hang signs and paper bulletin boards—reviving the library within the school to make it accessible to local families once again. 

The library opened in the fall of 2023 during our local Quarry Festival. We are governed by a small local board. Together we’re continuing our town legacy of cultivating a love of place, community, and good stories.

Meet Our Library Board

Sadie Elliott

Jackie Squires

Anastasia Kniess

Jane Muncie

Bookshelves filled with children's books in the Stinesville Community Library.
A circular sign for Stinesville Community Library showing its logo of a silhouette of three children reading underneath a tree.
Books on a wooden shelf in a library, including a Christmas-themed book titled 'The Perfect Christmas Gift' with an illustration of a bear, a raccoon, and a duck decorating a Christmas tree. Other books are displayed behind it, with one titled 'An Angel Just Like Me'. In the background, bookshelves, a window, and a lamp are visible.
A girl is working on a computer at a desk in a library, with bookshelves, other children, and a reading area visible in the background.