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

NEW! Apple User Group – 1st & 3rd Tuesday of every month at 3:00pm. If you are a user of a MacBook, iPad, iPhone, or Apple Watch and have questions about how to use it, come by and see if someone can help you out. This is an informal group. If you are an Apple Wizard and would like to help out your friends and neighbors, please come and offer your assistance.

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See the Circulation and Borrowing Policy for other memberships information.

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Free for All: The Public Library on PBS tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today’s librarians.

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Reminder: The emails you receive from mils.noreply@maineinfonet.org are not from the library. They are auto-generated from the MILS system. Please do not reply to those messages and assume they will be read.

Thursday, June 26, 2:00pm & 6:00pm

at the Liberty Community Hall

Within the Whale is a unique, immersive, interactive experience featuring a life-size inflatable humpback whale named “Chunk” that participants of all ages can step inside to explore the wonders of marine life. There will be two 1-hour shows – one at 2:00pm and one at 6:00pm. Make sure you register for the correct time show! Registration is required. Limited to 20 people per show. Please register each attendee individually. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

• Register for 2:00pm show  FULL! Register to be put on a wait list or register for the 6:00pm show
• Register for the 6:00pm show

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This event is sponsored by the Liberty Library and the Searsmont Town Library. Learn more about the program’s content at www.withinthewhale.com

Sat. June 7, 9:00am-12:00pm (Rain date Sunday)

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 Friday afternoon between 3:00 and 6:00pm. Please let us know if you need pots or need to make other arrangements for drop off.

Thank you for your support!

Saturday, June 14, 9:00am – ’til sold out

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First Pie Sale of the summer. Last summer, we sold out in 7 minutes so come early! Pies are $20.

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Bakers are needed. If we have more pies, we can sell them. 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.

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Saturday, July 12, 9:00-12:00 — Craft Fair and Bake Sale There will be a craft table to sell donations made by you with 100% of proceeds going to the library. So start crafting now! Other craftsmen who will be joining are Gus Szabronski (wood-turned bowls), Michael Gaudet (makes aprons, bags, kids activity bags, and more), and Sett Balise (pottery).

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There will also be a Bake Sale instead of just pies for sale. Please consider donating a homemade cake, loaf of bread, etc. However, sweet and savory pie donations will also gratefully be accepted at this sale.

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.

Leigh Norcott is a former elementary school teacher who is currently homesteading with her partner on their farm in Montville.  She started drawing cards for her nieces and nephews when they were little, and it has brought her great joy. joy.

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The drawings are done with pen and ink and colored pencil. They will be on display at the library during May and June.

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.

Coming soon!

Hector Fox and the Daring Flight (Hector Fox and Friends, Book 3) by Astrid Sheckels

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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!

.We have cards made from recycled books for sale -$2 for 1 or 3 for $5. We have Lake St. George Photo Cards for sale, 1 for $2 or 10 cards for $20. Earrings made by Ayla, 12 years old, for $4. 

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

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The library is removing our adult CD collection of audiobooks. Anything left is free for the taking. Ask at the Desk.

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