Booth & Dimock Memorial Library

The library was first known as the Coventry Social Library. A wealthy Californian named H. G. Cogswell, remembering the kindness shown to him by some Coventry ladies, made a donation for a larger library. His donation required that the townspeople raise an equal amount. With this money, The South Coventry Library Association was formed and opened on April 4, 1880. In 1911, Henry Dimock of Coventry offered the Association $40,000 if the library changed its name, 'in perpetuation of the memory of my grandfather the Reverend Chauncey Booth, long pastor of the Congregational Church in South Coventry, and of my father Dr. Timothy Dimock, who was born in South Coventry and there practiced as a physician during his long and useful life.' The South Coventry Library Association became The Booth & Dimock Memorial Library on May 20, 1911. Read more...

Our Mission

The Booth and Dimock Memorial Library provides materials and services to help all residents of the community meet their educational, informational, and recreational needs. Fiction and nonfiction, selected quality reference sources, periodicals, non-print materials, and programming will all be used to help meet those needs. The Booth & Dimock Library will also provide access to other resources through interlibrary loan and on-line databases.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008