Upper Darby Township & Sellers Memorial Free Public Libraries

Our new schedules for the Winter 0f 2012 are out now!  New story time hours, new teen activities, and a variety of programs for adults are coming up over the next couple of months.  Stop at any of  the three branches and pick up a full listing.  Or click here for a listing of what’s up next.

All three branches will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Dec. 31, Jan. 1 and 2, 2012) for the New Year weekend.  Join us Tuesday morning at 9:00 a.m. (Sellers/Main and Primos) and 10:00 a.m. (Municipal) for the New Year.

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This past Tuesday was the formal ribbon cutting and grand opening of our new Municipal Branch Library.  If you haven’t seen it yet, make a point to stop by and visit us.  The new address for the Branch is 501 Bywood Ave.  The phone number is the same. 

The branch is open

Monday and Tuesday from 10am to 9 pm

Wednesday and Thursday from 10 am to 6 pm

Friday from 10 am to 5 pm

Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm.

For more pictures of Tuesday’s festivities and the building itself, check the UDLibraries Facebook page.

We’re starting on a long overdue renovation of our website.  The first change will be to make this blog our home page – the page you first see when you log on to our website.  We hope this will make it easier for us to keep you up to date on what’s going on @ the library.

While we’re under renovation, we’d like to here from you about what you would like to see on this site.  More information on programs?  Listings of new books?  Just basic “who do I call for…?” information? 

Post a comment below or drop us an email at upperdarby@delcolibraries.org .  Either way, tell us what you’d like to see.

You can always get the latest on Facebook too, even if you don’t have a Facebook page yourself.  Simply go to www.facebook.com/UDLibs !

The Friends of the Upper Darby Township and Sellers Memorial Free Public Library hold their annual Fall Book Sale, on Saturday, October 9th, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Sellers Library Barn, 76 S. State Road, Upper Darby.  Hardbacks sell for $1.00 and paperbacks 50 cents.  An “absolute clearance” sale will be held two weeks later on October 23^rd, from 10:00 a.m. to noon and again from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

For sale are books for any age or interest, videos, DVD, and music cds.  Treasures of all sorts can be found at the White Elephant sale being held at the same time.

 Donations for the sale are gladly accepted.  They can be dropped off Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.  Please call ahead before delivering items to the Library at 610-789-4440.  For safety reason, any items left outside the barn must be discarded.

 For information regarding either the sale or donation of books, please call the Library at 610-789-4440.

Did you hear about a book on Oprah? GMA? NPR?  See something in the weekend paper that you were interested in reading?  How do you get our hands on that newest best seller you’re dying to read?

Well the easiest way, of course, is to just call and ask if we have it.  We’ll let you  know if it’s on the shelf, or if we can put a hold on it.  We can “put you on the list” even if the book is just on order.

If you like doing it yourself, go straight to the online catalog, check for the title, and with your barcode and a couple of clicks, you’ll be on the list.  Take one more step, enter your email address, and you’ll get email notifying you when and where to pick up the book.

Browsers – come on in and just troll through the new book shelves.  That’s where you’ll find the as-yet-undiscovered gems.  You’ll have a chance to talk to staff members for suggestions, new titles to watch for and what’s going on in the library.  Plus, you can tell us what you want us to watch for.

Here’s a title you may have missed – The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.  Ms. Blake will be speaking at the DCLS Author Luncheon in October.