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Fairfield County's Libraries: Computers, Cafes and Free AC

The library is a great place to cool down with a good book on a hot day.

Slurping ice cream cones. Tossing water balloons. Skinnydipping.

These are all tried-and-true activities that will cool you off in a heat wave.

But why not cool off by reading a good book? There are added benefits.

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As the ancient inscription carved into the walls of the Library of Alexandria (built in honor of Alexander the Great in 300 B.C.) has it, a library is "The place of the cure of the soul."

Luckily, Fairfield County is blessed with libraries that are free, open to the public, stuffed with books, computers, cafes and other diversions - and all come with air conditioning.

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You may even chance upon a great work of art, such as the Pequot Library's original Birds of America 1860 engravings of John J. Audubon, currently on display in a glass case.

At the library, you can stay all day (and into some evenings) and no one will shoo you away as long as you mind your library manners.

If you'd rather write a book than read one, that's OK too.

Following is a list of area public libraries and their summer hours. Click on a link for more information, rate the library or tell us about other great free places to cool off!

Darien

1441 Post Road

Monday - Thursday 9 - 9

Friday 9 - 5

Saturday 9 - 5

Sunday 1 - 5

 

Easton

691 Morehouse Road

Monday & Friday 10 - 5

Tuesday & Wednesday 10 - 8

Thursday 10 - 6

Saturday 10 - 3

Sunday closed

 

Fairfield

1080 Post Road

Monday - Thursday 9 - 9

Friday 9 - 6

Saturday 9 - 5

Sunday closed

1147 Fairfield Woods Road

Monday - Thursday 9 - 8

Friday 9 - 6

Saturday 9 - 5

Sunday closed

720 Pequot Avenue, Southport

Monday - Friday 9 - 6

Saturday 9 - 1

Sunday closed

 

Greenwich

101 West Putnam Avenue

Monday - Friday 9 - 9

Saturday 9 - 5

Sunday 1 - 5

21 Mead Avenue

Monday Wednesday Friday & Saturday 9 - 5

Tuesday 10 - 6

Thursday 12 – 8

90 Sound Beach Ave , Old Greenwich

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9 – 6

Tuesday & Thursday 9 – 8

Saturday 9 – 5

Sunday (closed until Labor Day, then 1 -5)

Cos Cob

5 Sinawoy Road

Monday 12 - 8

Tuesday - Saturday 9 - 5

 

New Canaan

151 Main Street

Monday - Thursday 9 - 8

Friday & Saturday 9 - 5

Sunday closed

 

Norwalk

1 Belden Avenue

Monday & Thursday 9 - 8:30

Tuesday Friday & Saturday 9 - 5:30

Wednesday 12 - 8:30

51 Van Zant Street

Monday - Friday 12:30 - 5:30

Saturday 9:30 - 5:30

Sunday closed

Monday, Wednesday-Saturday 9 – 5:30

Tuesday 12 – 8:30

Sunday closed

 

Redding

Route 53 and Diamond Hill Road

Monday Wednesday Friday & Saturday 10 - 5

Thursday 10 - 8

Sunday closed

 

Ridgefield

472 Main Street

Monday Wednesday & Friday 10 - 6 

Saturday 9 – 5

 

Rowayton

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10 – 5

Wednesday 10 – 7

Saturday 10 – 1

Sunday closed

 

Shelton

Monday - Thursday 9 - 8:30

Friday 9 - 4:30

Saturday and Sunday closed

Monday 12 - 8

Tuesday - Thursday 10 - 8

Friday 10 - 5

Saturday 10 - 3

 

Stamford

One Public Library Plaza

Monday - Thursday 11 - 8

Friday 11 - 6

Satuirday 10 - 5

Saturday 10 - 5

Sunday 1 - 5

115 Vine Road

Monday - Wednesday 11 - 7

Friday 11 - 6

Saturday 10 - 4

Sunday closed

34 Woodland Avenue

Tuesday & Wednesday 11 - 5:30

Thursday 1 - 7

Saturday 10 - 2

Sunday closed

1143 Hope Street

Tuesday 7 Thursday 11 - 7

Saturday 10 - 4

 

Trumbull

Monday-Thursday 9 – 8

Friday-Saturday 9 - 5
Sunday 1 - 5 (September-May only)

 

Weston

56 Norfield Road

Monday - Tuesday, Thursday - Friday 9 - 5

Wednesday 9 - 8

Saturday 10 - 4

Sunday closed

 

Westport

20 Jesup Road

Monday - Thursday 9 - 9

Friday 9 - 5

Saturday 9 - 5

Sunday 1 - 5

 

Wilton

137 Old Ridgefield Road

Monday - Thursday 10 - 8

Friday 10 - 6

Saturday 10 - 5

Sunday closed

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