Notary Service Suspended for May

Due to staffing changes, Notary service will not be available at the Library for the month of May, 2024.

West Des Moines City Hall offers free Notary services – please contact them ahead of time to arrange an appointment.

You can also search for Notaries in your area through the State’s Notary Search tool.

Library Banners

Banners
Artist(s):
Gretchen Weber
Year:
1996
Type(s):
Banners
Location(s):
Main Branch Interior

Shortly after the Library building on Mills Civic Parkway opened in 1996, banners with calligraphy quotes were installed on the main staircase.  The calligraphy and design was done by Gretchen Weber.  The quotes are as follows:

Banner 1:

Books are meat and medicine
And flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
And drumbeats on the air.
-Gwendolyn Brooks

Banner 2:

We read to know we are not alone.
-C. S. Lewis

My library was dukedom large enough.
-Shakespeare

There is no frigate like a book.
-Emily Dickinson

Banner 3:

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero

You will come here and get books that will open your eyes
and your ears and your curiosity and turn you inside out
or outside in.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson