This 1894 photo depicts the circulation desk and librarian A.T. Wells. Behind the desk one can view the tall, metal stacks that held the library's collection. This shelving cost $3,000, an expense that was in addition to the library's building contract.

By March, 1878 the library held 5,960 bound volumes and received about 16,000 visitors per year, thus one can only imagine the joy the residents of Fairfield took in their new building.

This room served as both the library director's office and the cataloging space.

Fairfield was the first community to recieve a grant from Andrew Carnegie without stipulations.

Previously, Carnegie had always included a prerequisite requiring an annual contribution from recipient communities of at least ten percent of a library's construction cost, money intended to be used for library upkeep. The story goes that Carnegie was so impressed by the town's long labors at building and sustaining a library that he decided circumstances justified forgoing such a stipulation.