Editing Safety Harbor, Florida (section)

==Arts and culture==

===Library===
The Safety Harbor Public Library was founded in 1938 by the Women's Civic Club of Safety Harbor with funds from the federal Works Progress Administration program (WPA). The library was originally housed inside the Community House located at 2nd St. N and 6th Ave N.<ref name="About">{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.cityofsafetyharbor.com/932/About |website=Safety Harbor Public Library |publisher=City of Safety Harbor |access-date=28 June 2024}}</ref>  On November 25, 1938, Daisy Cahow was appointed by the WPA as the First Librarian. To supply the library collection, the Women's Civic Club paid the transportation charges to borrow 50 books from the state and return them at regular intervals.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jasper |first1=Catherine |last2=McCook |first2=Kathleen de la Pena |title=The Florida Library History Project |url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED422005 |website=ERIC |access-date=28  June 2024}}</ref> As the collection was expanded it quickly outgrew the space. In 1946, Dr. Salem Baranoff, owner of the Safety Harbor Spa, purchased and donated two empty lots on 2nd St. N and 5th Ave N for the new library. Construction for the new building began on March 4, 1949 and the library opened in November 1949. The Women's Civic Club continued to operate the library in its new building, however, by 1978 it had become difficult for the club to provide adequate funding on its own. The property was deeded to the City of Safety Harbor in exchange for yearly funding, and the Civic Club continued to operate the library until October 1980 when full operation was taken over by the City. As the population of the city continued to grow, the library again outgrew the space and construction of a new building began in 1993 at its current location on 2nd Ave N with the new library opening on October 1, 1994. In February 2024, construction began on a second-floor addition to the current library.<ref name="About"/>  
Safety Harbor Public Library is part of the [[Pinellas Public Library Cooperative]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Safety Harbor Public Library | publisher = PPLC | date = 2021 | url = https://pplc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/safetyharbor/ | access-date = November 28, 2021}}</ref>