Hidden Cove Public Library
Libraries are the memory of humankind, irreplaceable repositories of documents of human thought and action. The Hidden Cove Public Library is such a memory bank par excellence, one of the great knowledge institutions of the world, its myriad collections ranking with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Virtually all of the Library's many collections and services are freely available to all comers. In fact, the Library has but one criterion for admission: curiosity.
The Hidden Cove Public Library comprises a set of scholarly research collections, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local, while singularly attuned to Hidden Cove. This lends to the Library an extraordinary richness. It is special also in being historically a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing in a century-old, still evolving private-public partnership. The research collections (for reference only, and organized as The Research Library, resemble the holdings of the great national and university libraries.
All these features, taken together, make The Hidden Cove Public Library a unique and complex institution, wonderful to use but not always easy to grasp. It has been very much a creature of time and place, bearing the imprint of its origins but always, like any living organism, coping with struggles and problems while adapting to an ever changing environment.
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