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Berry Memorial Library 93 Main St. Bar Mills, ME 04004 (207) 929-5484 www.berrylibrary.com berrylibrary93@gmail.com The Berry Library has continued to move forward in a positive manner this past year. The current Library hours are the following: Mondays: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.; Tuesdays: 3 – 6 p.m.; Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. The Library continues to offer FREE internet access, both Wi-Fi and also public access computers for patron use. Photocopying and printing services are available for $.20 per page. We also offer Inter Library Loan borrowing service. Along with the services listed above, we offer CloudLibrary to patrons. This is a FREE electronic book borrowing service available through the Maine State Library. The Library pays a fee each year, based on their town’s population. The only thing a Library patron needs to access this service is their Library card number. Also, the Library offers print books for all ages, audiobooks, and a small collection of DVDs. We continue to offer monthly Take & Make Craft packets for kids all year round. The Library has a website (www.berrylibrary.com) In addition to posting announcements on the site, our automated card catalog can be accessed by any computer or device through our website. Our website is also where CloudLibrary (mentioned above) can be accessed. We also maintain a Facebook page, which we use to announce upcoming events, new acquisitions,,and present stories for children. This year, we started sending out an email newsletter to patrons every couple of months. That said, we don’t have email addresses for all of our patrons (especially patrons who opened library cards several years ago.) If you are a library patron, have an email address, but don’t already receive our newsletter, please contact us with your address so that we can include you. With a portion of the ARPA grant funds that we received during the year, we purchased new plastic library cards with our library’s contact information, patron barcodes and numbers on the back of the card (*picture included with this report) This past summer, we once again were fortunate to receive a grant from the Narraganset Foundation to help us out with offering a summer reading program for kids. The grant helped us obtain new children’s books, programming supplies, and discounted admissions to the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, and also Maine Wildlife Park . We had approximately 10-12 kids actively participating in our incentive reading por tion of the program. Several families took advantage of the discounted passes we offered. In August, on the day of Buxton’s Bi-Centennial Celebration, we held an outdoor book sale on the Li brary’s front lawn. Our Library was on the parade route, and we had a good amount of “traffic” for the sale. It also happened to be the hottest day of the summer!

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