Avon-by-the-Sea Public Library

Garfield Ave & 5th Ave, Avon-By-The-Sea, NJ 07717

732-502-4525

www.avonbytheseanj.com

The Avon-by-the-Sea Public Library was founded in 1915 and moved to its present location in 1916. The building was a gift from Andrew Carnegie. The Library is one of only four Carnegie buildings in Monmouth County, and only one of seventeen in New Jersey. At the time of its founding, the Avon Library was housed in a single rented room on Main Street. Despite the Carnegie Corporation’s minimum population size of 1,000 needed to secure funding, the New Jersey Library Commissioner persuaded the corporation to look at Avon's steady summer population growth; the Borough of Avon-by-the-Sea, with a population of 707, was awarded $5,000 and became the smallest town in the United States to receive a Carnegie grant. The Avon Historical Society was recently awarded a historical marker from the G. William Pomeroy Foundation to mark the 110th anniversary of the library. The current library collections include a 21,000 volume of popular fiction and non-fiction for children and adults, over 1,200 audio books, classic DVDs for children and adults, a New Jersey history collection, and over 52 periodical titles for loan.

WHAT TO SEE AND DO

• Attend a weekly community program
• Explore the library’s current collections of books, audiobooks, DVDs and more