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This week the Silas Bronson Library has 226 new books. New items include It Starts with Us, Thank You for Your Servitude, They Want to Kill Americans, Bake, Leadership, Tanqueray, and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York. https://t.co/uav7nHHvny pic.twitter.com/FmXhRSCDIB

— Silas Bronson Library (@silasbronson) July 27, 2022

Our Fall Newsletter is now online! Get a sneak peek at our programs in September, October, and November by viewing the PDF at https://t.co/yefTn5igbn

Printed copies of the newsletter will be available at the library starting tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/9oF0ZYVKa4

— Silas Bronson Library (@silasbronson) August 25, 2022

This week the Silas Bronson Library has 83 new books and 30 new movies. New items include Downton Abbey, Fantastic Beasts, 1883, The 6, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Heart Bones, The Lost City, The It Girl, Shattered, and The Gilded Age. https://t.co/lejktwDM7X pic.twitter.com/Zt8rs5rjde

— Silas Bronson Library (@silasbronson) July 20, 2022

You asked, and we listened! Colleen Hoover is one of the most popular authors right now, so we made sure to add more of her books to our collection. The latest arrivals will be ready for you to borrow tomorrow, but you can go ahead and put them on hold now. pic.twitter.com/d3JGH0kqLU

— Silas Bronson Library (@silasbronson) July 20, 2022

Silas Bronson Library News Archive

Library Announces Programs for the Next 3 Months

History of Libraries in Waterbury

(partial list)

• Silas Bronson Library - Grand Street, 1868
  • at one point, this library was the second largest and most complete in the state of Connecticut
• Silas Bronson Library - Bunker Hill Avenue
• Young Men's Institute, 1851
• There were at least 2 libraries in Waterbury prior to the 1850s