# Sherborn Library

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| name = Sherborn Library
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| image=Sherborn Library, Sherborn MA.jpg
| caption=Sherborn Library
| location = [Sherborn, Massachusetts](/source/Sherborn%2C_Massachusetts)
| coordinates = {{Coord|42.2392|N|71.3695|W|region:US-MA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| established = 1860, by Theodore Dorr<ref name="Sherborn Library">[http://library.sherbornma.org/ The Sherborn library Official Website]</ref>
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| director = Elizabeth Johnston<ref name="Sherborn Library" />
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| website = {{URL|library.sherbornma.org}}
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The '''Sherborn Library''' is a municipal public [library](/source/library) in [Sherborn, Massachusetts](/source/Sherborn%2C_Massachusetts), United States. Many libraries have existed in the town, beginning with one book collection set up by the Social Circle in 1808. Theodore Dorr combined several book collections to form one central library in 1860.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mission & History {{!}} About {{!}} Sherborn Library |url=https://sherbornlibrary.org/about/mission-and-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001133555/https://sherbornlibrary.org/about/mission-and-history/ |archive-date=1 October 2022 |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=Sherborn Library}}</ref> In 1914, a benefactor named William Bradford Homer Dowse built a brick building that would become the Sherborn Library in January 1971.<ref name="Sherborn Library" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/sherborn/fun/entertainment/books/x4796172/Sherborn-Library-gets-Selectmen-s-approval-for-renovations#axzz1Ng9JFqBi |author= Barbara Rhines |title=Sherborn Library gets Selectmen’s approval for renovations |date=Nov 3, 2010 |work=Wicked Local Sherborn |publisher=[GateHouse Media](/source/GateHouse_Media) |location=[Perinton, New York](/source/Perinton%2C_New_York) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111130016/http://www.wickedlocal.com/sherborn/fun/entertainment/books/x4796172/Sherborn-Library-gets-Selectmen-s-approval-for-renovations#axzz1Ng9JFqBi |archive-date=11 November 2012}}</ref> Today, the library is used frequently by the residents of Sherborn, and is open every day except Sunday.<ref name="Sherborn Library" />

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