Library Hours
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10am-7:30pm |
| Tues. - Fri.* |
10am-5pm |
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*1st Wed. each month
12pm-5pm |
| Saturday |
10am-1pm |
| Closed Sundays and Holidays |
Weather
is always a factor in Vermont. There will be times that the library is
closed due to inclement weather.
Holidays Observed
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New Year's Day
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Martin Luther King Day
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Presidents Day
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Memorial Day
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July 4th
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Labor Day
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Columbus Day
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Veterans Day
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Thanksgiving and day after
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Christmas Day
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When a holiday falls on a Friday or a
Monday, the library will be closed for a long weekend.
Great
Reads!!
Please Click On
Any Jacket & Link to Barnes & Noble For Further Information
Cellist of Sarajevo
by -
Steven Galloway
Publishers Weekly
Canadian Galloway (Ascension) delivers a tense and haunting
novel following four people trying to survive war-torn Sarajevo.
After a mortar attack kills 22 people waiting in line to buy
bread, an unnamed cellist vows to play at the point of impact
for 22 days. Meanwhile, Arrow, a young woman sniper, picks off
soldiers; Kenan makes a dangerous trek to get water for his
family; and Dragan, who sent his wife and son out of the city at
the start of the war, works at a bakery and trades bread in
exchange for shelter. Arrow's assigned to protect the cellist,
but when she's eventually ordered to commit a different kind of
killing, she must decide who she is and why she kills. Dragan
believes he can protect himself through isolation, but that
changes when he runs into a friend of his wife's attempting to
cross a street targeted by snipers. Kenan is repeatedly
challenged by his fear and a cantankerous neighbor. All the
while, the cellist continues to play. With wonderfully drawn
characters and a stripped-down narrative, Galloway brings to
life a distant conflict. (May)
Copyright
2007 Reed Business Information
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Welcome
Autumn!
Teen
Read week is October 13-17
This
year's theme: Books with Bite!
"Friends"
Community Programs:
(All Events Free and take place in the library unless
otherwise noted ~ Please use rear entrance)
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Two
Artists Program
for Third
Thursday: Thursday, June 19th @ 7PM
The
Third Thursday Program for the month of June is Two
Artists Program featuring
 Viola
Higgins, water colorist and Susan Kneebone, greeting card
artist. Higgins and Kneebone will present a program
demonstrating various techniques in their art work. Higgins
will demonstrate different water color techniques and
Kneebone will show design with torn paper, cut paper and
fabric collage used in greeting card art.
Please
join the Friends of the Library June 19th at 7 pm
in the Community Room, Fletcher Memorial Library, Main
Street in Ludlow. Please enter rear parking lot of the
library. All of the Friend’s programs are free to the
public and handicapped accessible. For any more
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Book Discussion: Thursday,
June 26th @ 7PM
 The
Friends of the
Library’s book discussion group is revisiting the classic
The Age of Innocense by Edith
Wharton. Winner of the 1921
Pulitzer Price, The Age of Innocence is Edith
Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during
the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when
society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”
Copies
of the book are available to borrow at the Library. The
group will meet June 26 in the Community Room of Fletcher
Memorial Library in Ludlow on Main Street at 7 pm. Please
enter from the rear parking lot of the library. New people
are always welcome to come and enjoy a fun, stimulating
evening with really nice people. All of our programs are
free and accessible to people with disabilities.
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*For
more detailed information on "Friends" programming, click the "Friends" tab above.
Fletcher
Footnotes:
We're
Live
To View
Our Catalog - Click Pix
On-line!
Listen
Up! Vermont
Is now available!
Downloadable Audio Books - Click Pix
B IG
NEWS FOR APPLE PRODUCT OWNERS!
OverDrive
(the company that provides our audio book service Listen Up!
Vermont) will be releasing audio books in the format
compatible with all models of iPods, iPhone, iPod Touch, Zune,
and the thousands of other MP3 players and devices on the
market. We expect the titles, services, and software for the new
format to be ready by the end of June. This will be followed
with the release of OverDrive Media Console for the Mac.
Read all
about the Green Mountain Library Consortium, a group of
libraries in Vermont joining together to provide a selection of
over 500 downloadable audio books to our patrons.
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You must be a current FML
library patron.
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You will need to request your
library number to use the service.
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You will need to download
free software from the webpage.
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Quick Start Guides are
available on the website as well.
It is
quick, it is easy, give it a try!
Vermont Online Library (VOL)
On-line data bases - Click Pix
The
Vermont Department of Libraries (VOL) and Fletcher Memorial
Library provide electronic information databases to all of out
patrons. These resources are available to you free of
charge, 24-hours a day anywhere Internet Access is available.
Before accessing this site you will need to
contact Fletcher Memorial Library for patron verification and the
password. ENJOY!
"Why We
Love Our Library" Video
(Click on link below
to View & Listen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWRXRHPuUz8
Produced by our own Megan Emery and the teens.
Fletcher Memorial Library is here for you. Our
services and resources are free to all Ludlow, Cavendish, Plymouth, and Mount Holly taxpayers and permanent residents.
Visitors to our area are welcome to come, sit, read and peruse
our stacks. Seasonal memberships are available. Drop in and
check us out!
Youth Programs:
(All Events Free and take place in the library unless
otherwise noted)
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Please
Click Youth Tab at the top of this page. Lots of Cool
Happenings ~ Hope you will join us! |
Mission
Fletcher Memorial Library is a resource to the
Ludlow Community, providing relevant current materials, programs
and services for all ages. Recognizing
literacy as the keystone to education, our Library is committed to
providing our community with the opportunity to learn, grow and
acquire knowledge independently via a diverse collection of
materials. With Public
Internet Access available, the library also serves as the
community’s link to the information superhighway.
Services
 Current Fiction and Non-fiction books
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Large selection of Audio Books
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75 magazine titles- spanning all ages
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6 daily
newspapers - 3 weekly newspapers
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ADA
accessible
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Tax preparation offered through AARP
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Community Room for non-profit use
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Book sales
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Friends
Programming
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Community
Programming
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Public Access Computers
We
have available two Adult and two Youth Public Access Computers.
These computers are available for use per our Patron Card
Policy and Computer Use Policy.
Availability is on a first come basis
as we do not reserve
time.
Inter-Library Loan
In
the event that we do not have the materials needed, we will be
more than happy to initiate an Inter-Library Loan search through
the Vermont Department of Libraries. Most transactions are
free of charge, in extreme cases where specialized materials are
requested from Academic or Out-of-State institutions, the patron
may be charged a fee. Donations towards postage are always
appreciated.
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