Nine year old Lauren Robb, an avid reader, considers the library her home away from home. She was thrilled to find her engraved brick in the sidewalk entrance to the Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library. Lauren and her family were among many families and friends who attended a brick dedication ceremony at the library on Saturday, August 20, to locate their names among the 93 engraved bricks.

These bricks honor early Tucker families, the Friends of the Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library, Tucker Nature Preserve, Tucker Garden and Woman’s Clubs, the DeKalb Library Foundation and library staff as well as local businesses. An outside bench was dedicated to the Hogan Construction Group, who built the new Tucker branch in 2008, along with a brick in memory of the project supervisor, Rick Robinson. These names will continue to speak about the people who belong to the library and the Tucker community.

At this program, the library’s community room was rededicated as the Cofer Room, in honor of Reid H. Cofer for whom the library is also named. In 1988, his children made a generous contribution for the community room at the original Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library. Attending the program were daughter Betty Cofer Adams and her husband Roy Adams, Nita Cofer, wife of late son Gene S. Cofer and their daughter Janie Cofer Lee.

The DeKalb Library Foundation raised $7,500 for the library through donations of bricks and a bench. Sales of additional bricks may be available soon and one bench plaque is available. Bricks are also available at the expanded Hairston Crossing and Salem-Panola branches, and the new Stonecrest Library. For more information, call 404.370.8450, ext. 2238 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

More photos of the brick dedication ceremony can be found on our Flickr page.