About Us

What We Offer:

 Our specialty is friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable service. We have an outstanding collection of books on CD and audiotape. 
     
Public computers with Internet access, current bestsellers, and DVDs and videos are also popular with our patrons. 
   
Special collections include mental health books, local cemetery records, and bound volumes of the Rocket-Courier, the local newspaper.
    
Every fall and spring, a Time For Twos and a preschool story-hour are offered for 12 weeks each. The programs and special activities of our summer reading club attract older children.

History:

Wyalusing's public library was a gift to the community in 1902 from Francis R. Welles. Welles fervently believed in the value of education in improving the world. He felt that by making books accessible to people, he was lending a helping hand in their education. Welles stocked the Wyalusing Public Library with books from his personal collection to that end.

Albert Tipp, a Wilkes-Barre architect, designed the library. He made it as fireproof as current day building techniques would allow. The facade is brick and there is a cement liner between the roof and interior rooms. When an addition was built in 1991, the original tiled fireplaces and oak woodwork was kept intact.
 (Information courtesy of the Rocket-Courier.)

Gifts and Memorials:

A donation may be made to the library towards the purchase of a book, audio- book, or movie in memory of a loved one or in honor of someone. A bookplate with the person's name and the name of the donor is placed in the book and notification is sent to those designated. A gift of this type may be made in person or through the mail.

In our Sponsor An Author program, a patron agrees to reimburse the library for new titles written by their favorite author and then gets to be the first to read them. A bookplate is inserted to announce the gift.