The Public Library

In the 1830s the Union Library Company of Upper Dublin was formed. Mary Hough, Union Library Company of Upper Dublin, Ambler Gazette (1834). A century later that institution merged with the Ambler Public Library. Merger of Libraries Effected At Ambler, The Reporter, Oct. 25, 1935, p. 1; Newton Howard Papers, Historical Soc’y of Montgomery County. By that time Upper Dublin had two of its own libraries, one at the East Oreland School, with its own Library Board, and a second located at North Glenside School. CITE The library moved to Jarrettown School, then Sandy Run Elementary School (Junior High School), then to Township Building, ultimately to its present location at the former Rhone-Poulenc Rorer offices. CITE The acquisition of that site, the result of a rare 4-to-3 vote of approval by the Board of Commissioners, is discussed below. CITE In 2019 the new library was designated “Library of the Year” by the Pennsylvania Library Association. CITE