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Kennett Library is a regional public library open to all and serving the Townships of Kennett, East Marlborough, Pennsbury, Pocopson, Newlin, New Garden, West Marlborough and the Borough of Kennett Square. We provide a place for the youngest to the oldest and everyone in between and serve people of all incomes, ages, and needs – for free.
Kennett Library is on a mission to ignite imagination, enrich lives, and create community with a vision to be the catalyst for a community of lifelong learning and discovery. We connect people with reading, information and technology to expand curiosity, explore interests, and discover passions. We provide a friendly, helpful, stimulating environment that is built on free access to library resources and the exchange of information.
We are a place to meet, a place to learn, to teach, to share, to connect, a place to build, to expand horizons.
The New Kennett Library & Resource Center opened in the summer of 2023!
The Kennett Library is a private 501(C)3 that is a member of the Chester County Library System. We receive governmental funding from the State of Pennsylvania, the County of Chester, and all eight of the local municipalities we serve. The remaining funds needed to operate the library come from contributions by our friends in the community through annual giving, grants, events, and through the efforts of the Friends of Kennett Library. In addition to our ongoing support,