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The New Port Richey Public Library is located at 5939 Main Street in New Port Richey, Florida, USA. It was the recipient of Florida's first "Library of the Year" award in 2006 The library was founded by Elroy M. Avery. The "charters and papers of incorporation" were created on December 22, 1919; however, the Avery Library and Historical Society did not formally open until April 10th, 1920. The New Port Richey Public Library is the only public library in Pasco County that is not a member of the Pasco County Library Cooperative.

Awards
In addition to being "Library of the Year" in 2006, the New Port Richey Public Library also was awarded 4 out of 5 stars from Library Journal in 2013. The New Port Richey Public Library was the only library in the state of Florida to earn any stars from Library Journal that year.

=Reel Pride and Human Rights= For over eight years, the library has celebrated its ""Reel Pride LGBT Film Series"", having taken a hiatus in 2011.

In addition to Reel Pride, the New Port Richey Public Library has also had film festivals that emphasized human rights. In 2005, the library participated in the Human Rights Video Project, "a series of 13 documentary films sponsored by the American Library Association on the subject of human rights around the world."

Tasty Tuesdays
In addition to launching Tasty Tuesdays ("a weekly organic farmers' market held in the library courtyard"), the library has also created a Seed library in August 2013 in which patrons can check out seeds like they would books. This trend caught on in neighboring libraries with Dunedin Public Library launching their own seed library months later in October 2013.