Welcome to Stay Connected with Chescolibraries. The Libraries are closed until March 30. Please do not return library materials at this time. All due dates have been extended to at least March 30, and current overdue materials will not continue to accrue fines until we reopen. For help with your library account, please visit our Contact Us page. For help with OverDrive, please visit our OverDrive Help page.

Welcome to Stay Connected with Chescolibraries. The Libraries are closed until March 30. Please do not return library materials at this time. All due dates have been extended to at least March 30, and current overdue materials will not continue to accrue fines until we reopen. For help with your library account, please visit our Contact Us page. For help with OverDrive, please visit our OverDrive Help page.

Welcome to Stay Connected with Chescolibraries. We set up this new blog to keep in touch with you while the library is closed due to the COVID-19 threat. Check in with us often to learn about all of our online resources, get reading recommendations, keep up with community information, and find out what libraries have to offer to keep you and your family engaged and informed.  We have also added a Contact Us form on our Contact page that will be manned by our staff to answer your questions.  We hope you find it useful during this challenging time.

Effective at 6:00 PM, March 13, 2020, the Chester County Library and Henrietta Hankin Branch Library will be closed for two weeks, from Saturday, March 14 until Monday, March 30, 2020.

The health and well-being of our staff, volunteers and patrons is of paramount importance to us.  Some members of the public have expressed concerns regarding the COVID-19 virus and its impact on the local community and community services.  The County has determined that the closing of all non-essential services is the best way to mitigate or eliminate exposure as well as how to address any issues should circumstances change.

We hope that this will help slow the spread of COVID-19 and help keep the number of infected at a minimum. 

We encourage you to make use of the vast number of electronic resources available to you from home including e-books, e-audio books, digital magazines, and databases. These resources are accessible through our web site at www.chescolibraries.org. Due dates for library materials will be extended through the duration of our closure. Museum passes, Hotspots, and Rokus can be returned to the drop box.

For up-to-date information on COVID-19, please check the following public health agencies, sources of reliable, up-to-date information: 

Chester County Coronavirus COVID-19: https://chesco.org/coronavirus
Chester County Health Department: https://www.chesco.org/224/Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/
Pennsylvania Department of Health: https://www.health.pa.gov/
World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/