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About
the Webster Public Library
The town of
Webster
has been fortunate enough to have had a
library in its community since 1929. At
that time the library was a single room in the high school building with 657
books, 365 borrowers, and a circulation of 6,246.
In 1957 the library moved to the Emil Reitz building on Main Street
in the Village
of
Webster
and in 1959 the library relocated, once again, to a new facility in a
wing of the Town Hall on Ridge Road. In
1975 a library was built at 1 Van Ingen Drive, located behind the Town Hall complex.
In May 2002 the library moved to its current location in a renovated
department store in Webster Plaza, 980 Ridge Road.
The current library staff consists of
7 full
time librarians, 6 part-time library assistants and over 40 part-time
clerical and page employees.
The library collection has over 95,000 items
which include books, magazines, audio cassettes and CDs, video cassettes,
DVDs, books on cassette and CD, and CD-ROMS.
A large children’s collection in a park-like
children's room is an attractive feature of the library.
The library also has a children’s story hour room for the many
programs offered for children.
WPL also has a large meeting
room which can be divided into 2 sections. The Department of Motor
Vehicles mobile office is located here on Mondays from
10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m
. When not scheduled for use
by a library function, the meeting room is available for use by local
non-profit groups. Use of the
meeting room must be reserved in advance.
Please call the reference desk at (585) 872-7075 for more information.
Webster Public
Library
Webster Plaza, 980 Ridge Road,
Webster, New York 14580 USA
Telephone: 585-872-7075 Web site: www.websterlibrary.org
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