CROSSLANDS LIBRARY

BOOKS, MAGAZINES & DVDS

Crosslands Library  is a  source of recreational reading, reference material, newspapers, magazines, and assorted other material for use by residents and employees of all 4 communities.

The main library in the Center  located across from the Cafe is open all day every day. At the front desk you may use the computer to check out books and other media using the Self Service function available when there isn’t a volunteer on duty. The  branch nature library, is located in the Nature Room  on the lower level of the center and is open all day every day except when in use for meetings.

The library is funded by the CRA and operated by volunteers who are available as follows:

Hours when Library staff are available:

Monday – Thursday

Friday

Saturday

10 am – 12 Noon 10 am – 12 Noon
 3 pm – 5 pm

The KCC Library Catalog that comes up in a full color window on your computer is called “Alexandria Researcher”.  This site gives you the opportunity to search the catalog of books and DVDs available at Crosslands, the Nature Library and Kendal. You can learn details about an item  and find out if a book or DVD is available. You may access the library Researcher directly by clicking on the green rectangle below (or to find it on small screen devices, scroll down).

OUR KCC LIBRARY CATALOG – RESEARCHER

For more information about how to use the “Researcher” you can pick up a copy of “The KCC Library Catalog” on the counter by the public computer in the Library. The researcher is up and running 24/7 on the public computer.

Books and CDs of audio books are available for checkout for 21 days; DVDs for 7 days.

The library  stocks an extensive collection of magazines and newspapers. All the magazines are donated. Subscriptions provide  copies of local and national newspapers (for example: the Daily Local, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, Wall Street Journal). Back issues are held for up to one week. Ask if you don’t find what you are looking for.

A link is also available to the Chester County Library catalog on the public computer, or by clicking on the blue rectangle below.

Chester County/Kennett Square Library Catalog Link
Library, Allison Butler checking out a book

Chair: Allison Butler
Deputy Chair: Charmaine Gates

Annual Reports:
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021


BOOK REVIEW OF THE MONTH

March, 2024

The Lost City of Z

By David Grann 

(Published in 2005, 339 pages)

Crosslands Library Call Number: (Biography)  B Faw 

Reviewed by Beverly Halchak

 

Click here for the review

 Click here for book reviews  of prior months.

To recommend a book or DVD for the Library, click here to fill out the form.
  • New DVD’s

    Winter, 2023-24

    The Holdovers with Paul Giamatti  (Actor), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Actor), Alexander Payne (Director).

    Oppenheimer written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, with Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr and Casey Affleck.

    Golda with Helen Mirren as Golda Meir

    Alfred Hitchcock; The Legend Begins – 20 Movie Classics

    The Queen’s Garden a documentary by PBS


    Fall,  2023

    Living
    Are You There God It’s Me, Margaret
    Past Lives
    Empire of Light
    Monarch of the Glen Series 1-7
    Murder She Wrote – 4 Movies
    Glory
    The Good House
    Merrily We Live
    Everything Everywhere All at Once
    A Man Called Otto
    She Said
    Tár
    Till
    The Whale
    Women Talking
    Babel
    Black Beauty
    Black Orpheus
    Buster Keaton
    Capote
    The Fabelmans
    The Fantasticks
    The Hangover
    Matewan
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    Milwaukee, Minnesota
    Ray

 

DISPLAY TABLE

“In just spring”—books about gardens, birds and spring!