Chesham Library
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Chesham Library is a public library in the centre of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. It provides books, magazines, audio-visual items and local information.
It is located between Lowndes Park, Sainsbury's supermarket and the main high street.
The building currently used, on Elgiva Lane, was built between July 1970 and summer 1971. Since it was built, the building has had few structural modifications besides a glass-walled seating/meeting area, and the provision of a lift for disabled access between the library and study centre. Internally the library has been remodelled on at least one occasion.
Chesham Study Centre, upstairs, has a wide selection of reference books, computers, photocopiers and fax for public use, and has the Bucks Examiner archive on microfiche, as well as daily newspapers and other periodicals.
[edit] History
There has been a public library in Chesham since 1923. On September 28th of that year, a small room in Cemetery Lodge on Berkhamsted Road was designated and, even though it wasn't ideal, it remained there for four years. In October 1927, Chesham Urban District Council moved into new premises at 33 High Street on the Broadway, and the library was transferred to the top floor of that building. The library was run by volunteers from then until 1948 when a more established service was set up at the Broadway premises. In 1952, a children's section was added.
