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Willingboro Public Library
The Willingboro Public Library (WPL), located in Willingboro Township, New Jersey, is the municipal public library for the community of 36,500. It first opened in 1960 and operates independently from the Burlington County Library System. Before 2003, the library was housed in the township’s municipal building on Salem Road. The current library building is 〔"Willingboro's Independent Library a grassroots effort." Burlington County Times 31 Aug. 2008: B1. Print.〕 and is an anchor for the new Willingboro Town Center on Route 130.
== History ==
Within a year of Levittown’s creation in Willingboro in 1958, residents started a grassroots effort to create a new public library for their rapidly growing community. The Levittown Civic Association created a committee headed by Catherine Costa to help create a library.〔 The new library's first home was in the basement of St. Paul’s Methodist Church on Levitt Parkway.〔 The first books came from the new residents themselves. The Women's Club of Levittown, which disbanded in 2009, conducted a door to door search collecting 2,500 books for the new library.〔Artis, Gene. A History of the Willingboro Public Library. Glassboro, NJ: Glassboro State College, 1974. Print.〕 Even Levitt & Sons contributed to the new library by donating $500 to purchase dictionaries and other reference books.〔"Levitt Makes Library Gift." Levittown Times 27 Jan 1960, Print.〕
By December 1959, the Levittown Library Association adopted its new by-laws. On January 13, 1960, the Association was legally incorporated. By April 1960, the library moved from the basement of St. Paul’s and opened at the Municipal Building on July 12.〔History of the Willingboro Public Library 1959-1971. Willingboro, NJ: Print.〕 On November 8, 1960, the new residents of Levittown passed a referendum that the library would be funded by township taxpayers.〔 For its first four years, the library had a part-time director, Frederick R. Hartz. In 1964, Maurice S. Goldman became the first full-time director serving until his retirement in 1995.〔
The Municipal Building remained the library’s home for over 40 years, except for a brief period in the mid-60s. In December 1964, a fire forced the library to find temporary headquarters at the Willingboro Plaza.〔 The library reopened at the new Municipal Building in February 1968 with a . facility; enough space for 42,400 books.〔
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