Francis J. Lawler Branch Library

NEW BEDFORD, MA.

The Lawler Branch is located at the northeast corner of Buttonwood Park. It was built in 1960 with funds left in trust to the library by Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks whose mother was Hetty Green. The collection has approximately 40,000 volumes, newspapers, magazines, DVDs, videos, and audio cassettes as well as public Internet access. The Roberta S. Barnet meeting room is available for community use.