Hrs: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sat 9am-1pm
Poets Gathering
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Art Reception
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Safety Strategies
Wooden puzzles are now located in the Holmes Reading Room near the newspapers. Also in the Holmes Room, audio and music CDs can be found near the magazine rack.
A concerning update from the Maine State Librarian, Lori Fisher, about the funding cuts to Maine:
Join us in celebrating National Library Week! Stop in between April 7th and 12th and share what draws you to the Library! For more about this ALA celebration click here
Upcoming Programs
Pink Moon Poets Gathering
Friday, April 4, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Open mic format
Join friends, enthusiasts, and local poets for Pink Moon Poets Gathering, a night of camaraderie and poetry sharing. Co-hosted with the Northeast Harbor Library.
Much like it is now, spring was a good time to complete big projects before the arrival of the summer crowds. Pictured above is a group of volunteers all pitching in to get the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library cataloged for the first time since the library was opened. The scale of this work and the number of volunteers needed to complete it was so great that Miss Dorothy Elder Marcus, who had just recently acquired the Everett Ellsworth and Fannie S. Truette Cottage—High Tide, opened the house to be used for completing this great task in the spring of 1940. A few years later, Miss Dorothy Elder Marcus would sell this cottage to librarian Ruth Lawrence.
A year before, in the spring of 1939, Nell Thornton would write in her column for the Bar Harbor Times that the foundation had just been poured for an addition on the western side of the library which everyone hoped would be completed by July 1st.