Editing Concordia Parish, Louisiana (section)

====History====
The Concordia Parish Library is the second oldest Parish Library in Louisiana and the first of such to be tax-supported.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://concordialibrary.org/history/ |website=concordialibrary.org}}</ref> The library began as a movement between the President of the Tri-Parish Community Organization who had obtained a community program and a State Librarian at the time, [[Essae Martha Culver]]. The two held a dinner where they launched a library movement in Concordia Parish. The Ferriday Rotary Club and Police Jury along with the public worked with the Louisiana Library Commission on the project and in October 1928 the Concordia Parish Demonstration Library was opened. Citizens of the parish voted to implement a tax to ensure the library could continue to function after seeing the advantages provided by the library. The library moved in 1952 to its present-day main building site in [[Ferriday, Louisiana]]. In that same year the interested clubs of Ferriday and the Parish Library, The Concordia Parish Police Jury turned the Community Center over to the Concordia Parish Library to be operated as a parish library for all citizens of Concordia under the supervision of the Concordia Parish Library Board.