General
Information
Directions:
From Route 6, the Mid-Cape Highway, take Exit 10, South on Route 124 to second stop sign; left on Main Street, one block. The Library is located on right at the corner of Main and Bank Streets, with parking in the rear off Bank Street. Additional parking is located across Main Street behind the Harwich Town Hall and at Brooks Park.
Brooks Free Library Board of Trustees
JoAnne Brown, Chair
Robert Widegren, Vice Chair
William D. Crowell, Treasurer
Joan McCarty, Secretary
Dave Bassett
Alma Davis
Kathleen Remillard
Brooks Free Library Staff
Ginny Hewitt, Library Director
Suzanne
Martell, Public Services Librarian
Jennifer Pickett, Reference Librarian
Ann Bower, Children’s
Librarian
Mary Jo
Metzger, Principal Clerk
Nicole Hansen, Senior
Library Technician
Phil Inman, Senior
Library Technician
Pam Paine, Senior
Library Technician
Joanne Clingan,
Senior Library Technician
Ginna Smyth, Senior Library Technician
Carla Burke, VITAL Coordinator
Bob Maull, Library
Technician
Emily Milan, Library Technician
Tricia Centrella, Custodian
Click HERE to
see our Long Range Plan.
Click HERE for our FY2008 Action Plan.
Click HERE for information on our Rogers Groups.
Click HERE for Local History Information.
Services:
- Reference Collection
- Local and National Newspapers, Magazines, Journals
- Access to full text periodical and newspaper databases
- Large Selection of New Fiction and Non-fiction - 14 day loan period
- Books on Tape and CD
- Downloadable Audiobooks
- Videorecordings - VHS and DVD - loan period of 7 days
- Photocopying Machines
- Public Access Computers & Printers
- 24/7 Wireless Internet Access
- Massachusetts Telephone Books
- Vision Impaired Technology at the Library (VITAL)
- Books on Wheels - home delivery service for Harwich residents
- Large collection of Large Print books
- Nationwide Interlibrary Loan
- Discount
Passes to Museums and Attractions
LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
1. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background or views of those contributing to their creation.
2. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
3. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
4. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
5. A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background or abridged because of origin, age, background or views.
6. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.
Adopted June 18, 1948.
Amended February 2, 1961, and January 23, 1980,
inclusion of "age" reaffirmed January 23, 1996,
by the ALA Council.