Chester Springs Library

The library continued to partner with west pikeland township parks and recreation association to offer a summer in the parks series of family entertainment, spring and fall yoga classes at pine creek park, and a community egg hunt in the spring. We also continued to participate with historic yellow springs, inc., a cultural nonprofit, for the december annual holiday stroll, the mother's day art in the village event, and the fall anniversary of the village of historic yellow springs. In december, we purchased a movie theater style popcorn maker to add more fun and enjoyment for our library users during events like these. Our programming and our partnerships contribute to the value we offer by allowing us to reach more members of the community and share our resources with other nonprofits that serve the same people.

Pennsylvania state library law requires at least 12% of a library's operating expenses shall be spent on collection development. Chester springs library continued to meet this obligation in 2024. The number of items in the library's catalog was 16,549 items. This consisted of books, magazines, dvds, music cds, audiobooks on cd, play-aways, magazines, book club kits, and a library of things (circular looms, gelli arts printing kits, and disc golf sets). We also contributed as much as possible to the library system's electronic resource collection of downloadable e-books, e-audio books, and e-magazines. Our total circulation of material (physical items and e-resources) was 66,948. Circulation of children's physical materials included in this amount was 21,948. In 2024, chester springs spent 13.24% for collection development.