The E. G. Fisher Public Library serves 46,000 residents in Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. The library maintains approximately 70,000 volumes and circulates 145,200 items per year. Its items include books, audiobooks, eBooks, magazines, DVDs, video games, sports equipment, children's tablets, hotspots, and Chromebooks. It also has over 850 volumes of genealogy/local history collections, including local newspapers, county records, census records, and family and history files. The library offers WiFi services, public computers with internet and Microsoft Office, printing, copying, faxing services, storytime events, and other library programs available to all patrons.