Pennsauken Free Public Library

5605 Crescent Boulevard
Pennsauken NJ 08110

Phone: 856-665-5959
Fax: 856-486-0142

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Description:
The Pennsauken Free Public Library vows to strive to provide a solid array of learning materials, information services and leisure resources in order to support and improve individual, family and community life.

To support this aim, your Pennsauken Free Public Library will organize, manage and disseminate its resources to:

Make sure that the library's resources are made available to our constituency.

Promote the utilization of the physical library and the cyber-library.

Assist young people with life-long learning.

Promote literacy for all ages.

Assist people in finding jobs and educational opportunities.

Assist businesses with their development and growth.

Act as the Library, Archive and Public Information Center for the Municipality of Pennsauken.

Act in tandem with the local educational community to assist, support and enrich curriculum and course offerings to students of all ages.

Provide all types of current information.

Provide leisure reading resources, audio/visual materials and programs of interest for a diversified population.

Provide the Pennsauken public with a modern physical Library building complete with solid technological infrastructure that allows for accessibility from home and work.

The Pennsauken Free Public Library was incorporated in 1959, and opened September 21, 1959 in the basement of the township municipal building. In 1970, W. Leslie Rogers donated the funds to complete the construction of the new library building, complete with interior fixtures and books. The Township Committee voted unanimously to name the project the W. Leslie Rogers Library. The library building was dedicated on April 17, 1971.

The library is officially known as the Pennsauken Free Public Library, located in the W. Leslie Rogers Library building.