Self-service holds lockers allow no-contact and after-hours access to books and DVDs you request from the Library.

1975 – Key West Police arrested the owner of Uncle Sam’s Pawn Shop and Howie’s Lounge.

1975 – Key West-based air Sunshine announced that despite rising fuel costs, they would not raise fares.

1917 – The first long-distance telephone connection from Key West was made to Miami at 1:47 p.m.

1925 – At midnight, the U.S. Weather Bureau station at Sand Key was closed.

1911 – Curtiss Aircraft test pilot J.A.W. McCurdy attempted to fly from Key West to Havana but crashed just short of the goal.

1930 – The Key West Chamber of Commerce had requested use of a U.S. government airplane to help eradicate mosquitoes.

1911 – The French line steamer Louisiane, which had gone ashore at Sombrero Key in the hurricane of October 2010, was refloated.

1925 – In the first week of mullet season, 250,000 pounds, caught primarily off southwestern Florida, had been landed at Key West.

2003 – The Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory opened for business at 1316 Duval Street.

1935 – The cabanas at Rest Beach were fully booked by winter visitors for the season.

Internet, computer use, printing and photocopying is free to residents and visitors on a first-come, first-served basis.

Meeting rooms in our libraries are different at each location. Here is more information and our general policy.

1935 – An excursion to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas was offered to up to 16 passengers on the Commodore seaplane.

1912 – Key West continued to celebrate the completion of the railroad. At 11 a.m. a parade marched down Duval Street.

We offer services for visitors to the Florida Keys, including mobile printing.

2004 – The City of Key West hired Armando Parra as official chicken catcher to try to control the island’s free-ranging chicken population.

1880 – Former U.S. President and Army General Ulysses S. Grant visited Key West.

1912 – “Opening the Over Sea Railway to Key West” was the cover story of Collier’s National Weekly Magazine.

1925 – A report from Key West said, “Bathing conditions have been ideal for the past several days.