The Old Colony Library Network (OCLN) is a cooperative of 28 member libraries located on the South Shore of Massachusetts, USA. OCLN membership includes 26 town and city libraries and 2 academic libraries. OCLN’s cooperative approach enables member libraries to provide services that they would not be able to afford separately. OCLN was founded in 1984 and is incorporated in Massachusetts as a 501(C)3 corporation. OCLN is recognized as a charitable organization by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office.
OCLN Member Libraries:
- Abington Public Library
- Avon Public Library
- Thayer Public Library
- Brockton Public Library
- Canton Public Library
- Cohasset Paul Pratt Memorial Library
- Duxbury Free Library
- Eastern Nazarene College Nease Library
- Hanover John Curtis Free Library
- Hingham Public LIbrary
- Holbrook Public Library
- Hull Public Library
- Kingston Public Library
- Massasoit Community College
- Marshfield Ventress Memorial Library
- Milton Public Library
- Norwell Public Library
- Plymouth Public Library
- Quincy Thomas Crane Public Library
- Randolph Turner Free Library
- Rockland Memorial Library
- Sandwich Public Library
- Scituate Town Library
- Sharon Public Library
- Stoughton Public Library
- Walpole Public Library
- Weymouth Tufts Library
- Whitman Public Library
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“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
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