Abington Community Library

12 computers with Internet for adults, 2 for teens, 6 for children under 12. Wi-Fi also available.

Friends of the Abington Community Library, $5/pp/year

The Abington Community Library has three boards. The Library is incorporated and its business is conducted by a Board of Directors, each serving a three-year term.  Meetings are generally held monthly. The Friends of the Abington Community Library (started in 1972) is primarily involved with fundraising through their semi-annual used book sales.  The Abington Community Library ~ Teen Leadership Committee (begun in June of 2002), a teen advisory board, primarily conducts programming for teens and assists with numerous other events both locally and county-wide as needed.

In December 1959 an article in the Abington Journal announced that a meeting would take place in January to establish a library in the Clarks Summit area. This was based on an idea put forth by the Clarks Summit-Abington PTA. On January 11, 1960 the Abington Library Association was born. The Library, originally located in a storefront in what had been the Abington Fabric Store at 420 State Street in Clarks Summit (now the Young Funeral Home parking lot), opened its doors with 75 donated books on June 18, 1960. The Abington Heights Junior Women's Club (now the Civic League) was also instrumental in the early years. The Library was incorporated April 16, 1965. In 1966 the Library moved to a renovated single-family dwelling located at 500 School Street and continued as an all-volunteer organization until 1967 with the hiring of its first director. In 1975 the municipalities of Clarks Summit, Clarks Green, and South Abington Township, declared it their 'official Library.' In 1982 a referendum creating a dedicated county Library tax was passed and in 1983 the Library became part of the Lackawanna County Library System. The current Library is located in a building constructed in 1991 on donated property, which opened March 2, 1992. It contains a community meeting room frequently used by local non-profit organizations, the Friends of the Abington Community Library, and for other Library-sponsored programs. Originally ten thousand square feet, the addition of a Children's Room, opened in October

The Friends hold semi-annual Book Sales (April and October) as a major fundraiser for the area. This sale is the largest in a 100 mile radius of Scranton, PA.