Liberty Library

Monday 12:00-7:00
Tuesday 10:00-4:00
Wednesday 10:00-4:00.
Thursday 10:00-4:00. 
Friday 10:00-4:00

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Crafters – Thursdays 10:30am

Story Time – Fridays 10:30am

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See the Circulation and Borrowing Policy for other membership information.

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April is National Poetry Month

The Poet’s Tree

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Underneath the poet tree

Come and rest awhile with me.

And watch the way the word-web weaves

Between the shady story leaves.

The branches of the poet tree

Reach from the mountains to the sea.

So come and dream , or come and climb —

Just don’t get hit by falling rhymes.

~Shel Silverstein

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When the librarian knocks at my door, I ask

if she has a warrant that’s been signed by a judge.

She says no, and I wonder if she wants to talk

about my bibliographic record, or discuss my requests

for interlibrary loans. I have long sought asylum

in the stacks that border on the self-help section,

found sanctuary in the shelves that carry the 158.9s,

but honestly, since the pandemic, I’ve resettled

in the digital land of Libby that lacks the concept

of overdue status—when your time is up,

that’s it. Your items are just disappeared.

I haven’t seen you in a while, the librarian says,

but I’ve been thinking about how I used to check you out

and catalog your cards that were so green,

like the eco-friendly grass on the library’s roof,

that naturalized meadow, and I’ve been wondering

if you’d shelve your solitude and join me there,

in solidarity, because a place of renewal

should be everybody’s birthright, and I miss

your astonishingly undocumented, circulating love.

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~Pamela Lucinda Moss

Liberty Library is working with the National Digital Equity Center (NDEC) and Waldo Broadband Corporation to offer free digital literacy classes for our community. These classes are in-person.

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See the list of available onsite classes at NDEC, and let me know if you would like me to schedule one and if you have a preferred day and time.

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Register here.  Click on the “Reserve your spot” button. You can also email or call 207-589-3161. (Wednesday or Friday afternoons are best.) Please register as early as possible as classes are limited. If you do not receive a registration confirmation email, please contact the library.

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Online interactive classes are also available from NDEC here.

Simon Beckford is displaying photographs at the library during March and April. This exhibit explores the magical and mysterious in the world around us, with a selection of photos taken over the last five years. Photography is a way for Simon to play with different ways of seeing.

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Wednesday, June 11at 6:30pm (Several people could not attend in May so we will meet a week early in June before taking a break in July & August.)

The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins, ©1946

When Frances Perkins first met Franklin D. Roosevelt at a dance in 1910, she was a young social worker, and he was an attractive young man making a modest debut in state politics. Over the next thirty-five years, she watched his career unfold, becoming both a close family friend and a trusted political associate whose tenure as secretary of labor spanned his entire administration.

There is one copy at Liberty Library. For other copies, it is best to check MaineCat, but there are newer, 2011 editions also in MaineCat if you search. For an online version you may try Internet Archive.

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Winter Dance by Marion Dane Bauer ; illustrated by Richard Jones.

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 Haystack Mountain Trail is behind Walker Elementary School. This 1.1-mile footpath loop winds through a mixed northern hardwoods forest with a short spur to the open summit. Take the road on the left of the Walker Health Center and park at the ball field behind it. Address: 43 West Main St. Liberty, ME.

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Use our privacy booth for a quiet work space, meetings, and phone calls. It is normally on a first-come basis, but if you would like to schedule its use for a meeting or telehealth appointment, call the library ahead of time, and we will reserve it for you. Generally the use time is 1-hour but that is flexible, especially if no one is waiting to use it. You may bring your own device or use the library’s laptop computer.

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Libraries aren’t quiet places as they used to be. The library is a multi-use community space, but the Zenbooth gives an individual space to work in silence and perhaps tap into their zen energy!

Penguin Random House and United for Libraries announced during National Library Week the 51 recipients of a new grant program serving rural and small libraries across the country. I am happy to tell you that the Liberty Library was a recipient. The only library in Maine! We received an in-kind book donation grant of $500 awarded to 20 libraries to purchase Penguin Random House titles.

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Liberty Library also received a yearly grant of $1231 to help bolster collections from the Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust, through the Maine Community Foundation. This grant can be used to provide collection development and programming support to rural Maine libraries in Aroostook, Hancock, Knox, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Waldo and Washington Counties.