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Pequot Library

720 Pequot Avenue
203-259-0346

Mission:


Pequot Library brings literature, music, art, science, and the humanities to our community. For over 125 years, Pequot Library has been a pillar of Fairfield County, providing professional, encouraging library services and diverse programming to our local and regional community. Pequot Library is listed in the The National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation.

About Us:

Pequot Library brings literature, music, art, science and the humanities to our community. For over 125 years, Pequot Library has been a pillar of Fairfield County, providing professional, encouraging library services and diverse programming to our local and regional community. Pequot Library:

  • Helps children develop a life-long interest in reading and learning through engaging programs and special activities.
  • Presents concerts, exhibits, lectures, and a wide range of cultural, educational and community events in both its Auditorium and Perkin Art Gallery.
  • Engages the pressing issues of the day with its collections and adult programs.
  • Integrates its internationally important Special Collections into its day-to-day service to the community through exhibits, programs and hands-on events.
  • Preserves its original 1889 building, one of Connecticut’s historic treasures, as an ideal setting for all these activities

Recent News

Pequot Library Digital Digest Happenings - January 13, 2024

We are eagerly anticipating our upcoming (Jan. 18 at 6:00 p.m.) Meet the Author with celebrated Shakespeare scholar and University of Connecticut professor Pamela Allen Brown. She'll discuss her book The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage,…

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Pequot Library Digital Digest Newsletter - January 6, 2024

2023 was the year of the memoir, with huge hits from the likes of Prince Harry, Britney Spears, and Barbra Streisand, as this article explains. We're celebrating this genre and also eagerly anticipating two forthcoming author programs that fall…

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Pequot Library Digital Digest Newsletter - December 30, 2023

The Digital Digest: J.R.R. Tolkien Join us every weekend for Pequot Library's e-newsletter. J. R.R. Tolkein was born on January 3, 1892. Orphaned at an early age, he became a doting father who started his literary empire by telling bedtime stories…

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Pequot Library Digital Digest Newsletter - December 16, 2023

The Digital Digest: Charles Dickens Join us every weekend for Pequot Library's e-newsletter. Charles Dickens has frequently been credited with inventing modern Christmas. As this article from the the Dickens Society explains, Oliver Cromwell viewed…

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Pequot Library Digital Digest Newsletter - December 7, 2023

We have singing and music on the brain in advance of our Dec. 8 (5:00 p.m.) Holiday Caroling Party (pictured below) and our Dec. 9 (5:30 p.m.) Shakespeare on the Sound and Pequot Library Present “A Christmas Carol” | A Benefit Reading.…

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