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Elaine Talma, a retired professional librarian, offered her services to train a cadre of volunteers. In 1994, the auditorium section of the building was converted into what is currently the Children’s Library. Later that year, the negotiated transfer of responsibilities was completed under the direction of Sir Jack Hayward in whose father’s name the Library is now called. It was appropriately suggested that the Library be renamed The Sir Charles Hayward Library after one of its most ardent patrons. Later that same year, Shandra Tuccio, the late Dorothy Rand’s daughter, handed over the responsibility for the library to Sir Jack and the Grand Bahama Port Authority.
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Rand negotiated with the Grand Bahama Port Authority to have that organization assume full responsibility for the Library. In July, 1966, the Library was relocated to space provided by the John Harvard Medical Library, and renamed the John Harvard Lending Library. When the Freeport branch of the CRI failed, Dorothy Rand suggested moving the small public library into one wing of the facility and leaving the other for the medical reference library.
A graduate of the Harvard Medical University, Rand, built a Colonial Research Institute besides the hospital which still bears his name, equipped with a reference library. He had founded the Colonial Research Institute in Panama, but after retiring in Freeport in 1960, decided to establish a similar institute in his adopted city of. In the 1940s, James Rand had built up a fortune with his development and promotion of the dial telephone and airplane braking system. The Library received invaluable support from James and Dorothy Rand. Other pioneer organizers included Lila Gonsalves, wife of Keith, Gonzalves, the then general manager of the Grand Bahama Port Authority Lucita Craig, wife of one of the managers of the Freeport Oil Company Limited Yaga Tyminska, wife of the Harbour Master and, Nadine Catren, a long-time volunteer. The library began operations with 2 crates of books supplied by the British Council, which offered aide to British colonies, gratis. Donations came from pioneer Sir Jack Hayward of the Grand Bahama Port Authority and Ernie Skogg, a local businessman who took the plight of the fledgling library to the Jaycee Club of North Miami, which resulted in the addition of 1,200 books to the collection. In November, 1963, the first subscription was issued by Eileen McGuire, an early library volunteer to Mrs.
The small group of organizers, which included teacher and designated librarian Nora Brown, operated the Library on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
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The Library began operations in a small room in the Savoy Building courtesy of the Grand Bahama Port Authority. The Sir Charles Hayward Library, which is located adjacent to the Rand Memorial Hospital and opposite The Grand Bahama Port Authority in Freeport, Grand Bahama, was established in the 1960s by a group of residents interested in establishing a public library.
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