page_title: Bartram Trail Regional Library System
section_title: Namesake
hierarchical_section_title: Bartram Trail Regional Library System / Namesake
caption_attribution_description: English: William Bartram Trail marker in McIntosh County, Georgia, USA
context_page_description: The Bartram Trail Regional Library System is a public library system serving the counties of Wilkes, McDuffie, and Taliaferro, Georgia. The central library is the Mary Willis Library, a historic library built in 1888 out of red brick featuring Tiffany glass. This location is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  BTRLS is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that serves 300 member libraries covering 146 counties of Georgia. Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 11 million books. The library is also serviced by GALILEO, a program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online". This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. It also boasts over 10,000 journal titles in full text.
context_section_description: The namesake for the library system is William Bartram, a well-known American naturalist whose prominence in the area resulted from his four-year journey in the late 1700s through many of the southern colonies as he identified and discovered various flora and fauna. Also named after him, the Bartram Trail passes through the current communities that are part of the library system. While Bartram was in east Georgia he is recorded to have stayed in the present-day communities of Mary Willis, Taliaferro, and Thomson-McDuffie during his expeditions for his Elements of Botany Engravings. These communities are presently serviced by the Bartram Trail Regional Library System.
caption: William Bartram Trail, for which the library is named.
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