The Mockingbird Branch Library serves about 127,380 residents in Northwest Abilene in Taylor County. The library is publicly funded and managed and is one of the three locations of the Abilene Public Library. The Library System maintains 312,342 physical volumes and 167,748 digital items and circulates 480,090 items in a fiscal year. Mockingbird Branch Library is in the Edgewood Shopping Center and is open from 9 AM Monday to Saturday. It has fiction and nonfiction books, audiobooks, DVDs, and Spanish language materials. It provides computers with the internet and word processing software, a children's area with a wide range of juvenile collections, a quiet study room, and an activity room for different programming events.