Sewickley Public Library

Specialties

A community and cultural resource since 1873, the Sewickley Public Library has been established to provide free quality service to residents of the Quaker Valley School District, Allegheny County residents, and qualified non-​residents.

The Library offers a variety of materials and services to meet your educational, informational, and recreational needs. Owning over 90,000 titles — housing an ever-​growing collection of fiction and non-​fiction books, DVDs, music CDs, audio books, and magazines — the Library also has access to the materials of all other participating Allegheny County Library Association libraries to provide you with as much information as possible. Special Services

History

Established in 1873.

The Library owes its origins to the arrival of a whiskey boat at the Saw Mill landing one Saturday evening in the winter of 1872 – 73. «The consequent riot and disorder… led some, interested in the welfare of the young men, to think that such things would not be, had we a place for proper and rational amusement and self improvement.» The Young Men’s Library Association was formed in 1873 and rented a room for library services at the Mozart Hall (corner of Beaver and Broad Streets). It was later moved to a building next door called Choral Hall. In 1880 the property of the library was transferred to the Sewickley School Board under the general school laws of the state. In 1923 the library formally moved to its present location, a building given by Mr. William L. Clause in memory of his wife Elizabeth Ann Clause. In 1967, the QVSD Board of Directors designated the Library as its agency to provide public library service to Quaker Valley residents and taxpayers and resolved to maintenance.