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Hamlin Community Library is a small, rural public lending library and a member of the Wayne Library Alliance. Wayne Library Alliance is a collective of the seven libraries in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

Hamlin Community library is located in Wayne County, Salem Township, Hamlin, Pennsylvania with a Lake Township, Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania mailing address. There has been a library in Salem Township since 1969. Originally located in Wimmers Station, the library is a hub for the community and the surrounding areas.

The library has gone through many transformations through the years. The library was incorporated in 1980 as Salem Public Library. In 1996 a Friends group was founded, and a few years later the group started an initiative to build a new facility to meet the needs of the population of both Lake and Salem Townships. At that time the name of the library was amended to read d/b/a The Community Library of Lake and Salem Townships. Available land was identified less than a quarter of a mile away from Wimmers Station.

For simplicity the library is now officially Hamlin Community Library. The next phase of the library's development is partnering with Wayne Tomorrow!, a group initiated at the county level to address practical issues impacting affordable housing, the lack of public transportation, the means of funding entrepreneurial endeavors, and equipping the citizenry to build the economy of the future. Garnering national attention, this organization is working to build a foundation that can be shared with other communities living with similar challenges.