Larger Libraries for Larger Community

The current Edgartown Library building was last expanded in 1975, when our population numbered about 1,500 people. Today our year-round population is a bit more than 4,000, straining the quality of library services for all its users — most of all, the children for whom a good public library can open whole worlds of new opportunities. In January, Edgartown submitted a grant application to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners for a new, 15,585-square-foot library that would replace the old Union School next to our new elementary school.