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Berry Memorial Library 93 Main St. Bar Mills, ME 04004 (207) 929-5484 www.berrylibrary.com berrylibrary93@gmail.com Our Library’s current 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. Along with offering Inter Library Loan borrowing service, our Library offers CloudLibrary to patrons. This is a FREE electronic book bor rowing 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 and new acquisitions. We send out an email newsletter to patrons quarterly. If you are a library patron, have an email address, but don’t yet receive our newsletter, please contact us with your address so that we can include you. Once again this past summer, we were fortunate to receive a grant from the Narraganset One 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 community discounted admission passes to 3 area attractions;.the Children’s Mu seum & Theatre of Maine, Seacoast Trolley Museum, and Southworth Planetarium. For the Children’s Mu seum & Theatre of Maine, and Southworth Planetarium,,the discounted passes are available all year round. In August, during the Town of Buxton’s annual town celebration day, we held an outdoor book sale on the Library’s front lawn. Our Library is fortunate enough to be on the parade route. We had a good amount of “traffic” for the sale and a great chance to promote our Library. As we look forward to the coming year, a “One Book, One Community” collaboration is in the works for our Library and the West Buxton Library. Whether a library patron or a “not-yet-a patron” community member, we hope for great participation in this joint project. Our goal is to serve the community. Please let us know how we can best meet your literary needs. Happy Reading! Respectfully submitted,

Valerie Messana Library Director

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