Sewickley Public Library
Sewickley Public Library located at 500 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania
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| Country | United States |
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| Established | 1873 |
| Location | Sewickley |
| Coordinates | 40°32′19.32″N 80°10′53.4″W / 40.5387000°N 80.181500°WCoordinates: 40°32′19.32″N 80°10′53.4″W / 40.5387000°N 80.181500°W |
| Collection | |
| Size | 94,766 |
| Access and use | |
| Circulation | 374,711 |
| Population served | 13,934 |
| Members | 8,003 |
| Other information | |
| Budget | $987,000 |
| Director | Carolyn A. Toth |
| Staff | 35 Includes Part and Full Time |
| Website | http://www.sewickleylibrary.org |
| Designated | 2003 |
The Sewickley Public Library is the public library serving the Quaker Valley School District. The library can be found in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, a borough that is located 12 miles (19 km) west northwest of Pittsburgh along the Ohio River. A community and cultural resource since 1873, the Sewickley Public Library was established to provide free service to residents of the Quaker Valley School District, Allegheny County residents, and qualified non-residents. The Library offers a variety of materials and services. Owning over 90,000 titles – housing an ever-growing collection of fiction and non-fiction books, DVDs, music CDs, audio books, and magazines – the Library also has access to the materials of all other participating Allegheny County Library Association libraries.
Major funding for the library is provided by the Quaker Valley School District. Partial funding is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
According to Mr. Bayard H. Christy in a report prepared for the Home and School Association of Sewickley on November 8, 1912, the Sewickley Public Library owes its origins to the arrival of a whiskey boat at the Saw Mill landing one Saturday evening in the winter of 1872-73. "The consequent riot and disorder...led some, interested in the welfare of the young men, to think that such things would not be, had we a place for proper and rational amusement and self-improvement."
The Young Men's Library Association was formed in 1873 and rented a room for library services at the Mozart Hall (corner of Beaver and Broad Streets). It was later moved to a building next door called Choral Hall. In 1880 the property of the library was transferred to the Sewickley School Board under the general school laws of the state.
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