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

Story Time – Fridays 10:30am

Crafters – Thursdays 10:30am

Tech Help –  1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 3:00 CANCELED on June 16

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See the Circulation and Borrowing Policy for membership information.

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Zenbooth

Use our privacy booth for a quiet work space, virtual 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 aheadof 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.

How can we enjoy opportunities Artificial Intelligence offers for schools, hospitals, wildlife conservation, and other life systems while avoiding challenges and potential serious threats? Gray Cox teaches philosophy, peace studies and language learning at College of the Atlantic and is a cofounder and Clerk of the Quaker Institute for the Future. His book, Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? Dialogue and Collaboration in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, is on display at the library. Plus he will be selling copies after his presentation at a 10% discount. Gray is also a singer/songwriter and lives with his wife at the edge of Acadia National Park where they garden and go adventuring with their grandchildren. (more…)

Sunday, June 7, 9:00am-12:00pm

We need your extra seedlings, houseplants, and perennials to sell at our Plant Sale. However, some extra precautions must be taken when sharing plants from your garden. Shake off dirt, wash the roots, basically get down to bare roots, and then pot up the plants in a bagged soil. Do not leave potted plants sitting on the ground where Amynthas worms might find their way into the pot.

Please label plants with their name and other helpful information, such as color, size, growing conditions, etc.

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Donations for the Plant Sale can be dropped off at the library on Saturday afternoon between 2:00 and 5:00pm. Please let us know if you need pots or need to make other arrangements for drop off.

Thank you for your support!

Saturday, June 13, 9:00am – ’til sold out

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First Pie Sale of the summer! Pies are $20. We can accept credit card payments this year.

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Bakers are needed. Bakers should bring pies to the library between 8-9:00am that morning. Or you can contact the library to make other arrangements. Please be sure pies are covered and are labeled as to the kind of pie. We have some boxes at the library.

Future Summer Pie Sales

• July 11
• August 8

Pick-a-Prize Raffle & Ice Cream Sandwich Social

• August 22

Sally has spent the last 50 summers in Liberty, Maine at the lake or in her woods. They are both music to her eyes expressed through painting. She says, “A perfect time for me is first looking around at colors and shapes and then trying to put them on canvas successfully. Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don’t; so you take another look and you pick another color and a new brush and go at it again.”

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Sally enjoys creating and having acres of resources that inspire a woods walk and finding that unique limb that becomes part of a table or a bird form or maybe something else!

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“Every summer, the drive from my home in Rhode Island to my home in Liberty is more than a trip. It’s a return to a swim in the lake and a walk in the woods where I truly love to create.”

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The exhibit will be at the library during May and June. All of her paintings are for sale (some are already sold!) and 33% of the sales will be donated to the Liberty Library.

Thursday, June 11 at 6:30pm

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Invasive plants spread rapidly and smother native plants.  We can do something about it. Join a one hour presentation by Liberty resident Julie Beckford to:

• Understand the problem.
• Learn the plants.
• Do one thing.

This introductory talk will be followed by a series of learn-the-plants drop-in sessions hosted by Julie at the library on Monday evenings throughout the summer and fall.

NDEC Classes

The following classes will be in-person classes at the library:

• Basic Internet Safety – Monday, June 15 at 10:30am
• Identifying Frauds and Scams – Monday, June 22 at 10:30
• Keeping your Online Accounts Safe – Monday, June 29 at 10:30

Anyone is welcome. No need to pre-register. If you cannot make these classes, they are available on demand for Liberty Library patrons at Liberty Library Digital Opportunity Program. Plus this is the last month that NDEC is offering online live interactive Classes for Mainers for free. After June, they will still be offering classes but will cost $35 per hour. See All Classes that are available at NDEC.

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Digital Pathways is developed with the support of UnitedHealthcare. It is managed by the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office.

Wednesday, June 17 at 6:30pm (Book Discussion will not meet in July & August.)

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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson

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Biographer Walter Isaacson reveals the origins of the most revolutionary line in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines our rights as Americans-and how this greatest sentence ever written should shape our politics today.

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To celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a fascinating deep dive into the creation of one of history’s most powerful sentences: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

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There are 8 copies available in MILS.

Many more books in MaineCAT and a couple of audiobooks.

eBook available on CloudLibrary and hoopla.

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Needle Felting Workshop

The needle felting workshop on Saturday, June 6, 10:00am-1:00pm with Kristen Walsh is full. Register to be put on a waiting list if someone cancels.

Hector Fox and the Map of Mystery by Astrid Sheckles is the 4th Hector Fox book that will be featured on the StoryWalk®.

“While fishing on Stony Brook, Hector Fox and his friend find an old map hidden in a floating bottle. Hoping to find a secret treasure, the friends set off into the woods. When a gang of coyotes capture them, steal the map, lock them in a tunnel, it will take brains, bravery, and teamwork to escape and discover the true meaning of treasure.”

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Haystack Mountain Trail is a 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. (more…)

Cards made from recycled books for sale -$2 for 1 or 3 for $5.

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Lake St. George Photo Cards for sale, 1 for $2 or 10 cards for $20.

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Earrings for $4. 

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Ongoing Book Sale! We have books for sale – $1 for hardcover and trade paperbacks, 25¢ for mass  market paperbacks and children’s books.

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