Among the many programs offered at the Cherry Hill Library is a session for songwriters. Bruce Weissberg talks to attendees at such a program held recently at the library on Kings Highway. The year is 1920, and Ocean County bustles with a population of 28,000.
Dirt roads connect a matrix of small towns.
Daily newspapers carry stories of importance, and American families turn to their radios for entertainment. From its humble beginnings in a small Toms River cottage, to an impressive headquarters on Washington Street in Toms River, the county library has grown over 75 years to become the largest library system in the state. With 20 branches, the Ocean County Library system stretches from the southern-most part of the county in Little Egg Harbor, north to Point Pleasant Beach. Our programs, our resources, our collections, our volunteers they're all part of it. Ocean County's libraries and others throughout the state have expanded rapidly to keep pace with new media.