CROSSLANDS LIBRARY
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 |
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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).
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 or CLICK HERE for step by step instructions . 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.
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.
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, 2023Living
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