MISSION
STATEMENT
To provide
an environment and opportunities for learning,
recreation, and personal growth for all the residents
LIBRARY
HISTORY
The Hempstead
Public Library was started by Mrs. Chauncey C. Parsons and Miss
Harriet Mulford,who thought that the Village of Hempstead needed
a library.
They made up a Founders Committee of prominent members of different
churches in the village. The Baptist, Episcopal, Roman Catholic,
Presbyterian, Methodist, and Swedenborgian religions were all
represented, inturn, on the Library Board.
The Founders
Committee called a public meeting announcing that the library
was for the general public and adopted the name, The Hempstead
Subscription Library. One hundred and thirty subscribers were
secured at $1.00 per year. The library bookcases were installed
in a grocery store kept by Miss Mary Smith. Miss Smith also agreed
to act as librarian for $28.00 per year, to be paid quarterly,
and in 1889, the library was opened to the public. Eighteen years
later, in 1907, it was incorporated under the name Hempstead Library
Association and eventually became the Hempstead Library.
On June 24,
1951, the library was reincorporated as the Hempstead Public Library
and opened at its present site.
The
Hempstead Public Library is fully
accessible to the handicapped. There is free patron parking in
the lot behind the Library.
