New Canaan Library has started planning for a new use or uses of the 1913 building, a sealed structure on the western edge of the organization’s campus. The town’s grant also has helped address what had been a major staffing stressor for the library. Sullivan Crovatto said, “We are more able to appropriately serve our community given the increase in our public use overall. Sullivan Crovatto shared a table showing that New Canaan Library’s FY25 fundraising, at $1,060,605, far outpaced similar libraries (Westport at $835,000, Darien at $826,502, Wilton at $820,649 and Ridgefield at $697,729). “It’s amazing how much use that building gets.”The library unveiled its building project in January 2020, weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic set in here.