Single heads of household have less time to meet the demands of family life. High school students work to help support their families.
Entrepreneurs struggle to develop their businesses.
Local residents need empowering information that can contribute to their individual success as well as the development of the community. When the Library's Main Street doors close at 8 p.m., the lights will stay on inside as a staff of dedicated librarians stays on-call until midnight, seven days a week. By phone, by fax, by e-mail, residents in the Metro Hartford region will be able to reach for a reference librarian and get an answer within two hours. The Hartford Public Library is the first municipal library in the country to offer a telephone-reference service from morning to moontime. Currently, only three other state and private library systems in the country are successfully running similar services.