General Information
Directions:
The Library is located at 739 Main St. (Rt. 39) in Historic Harwich Center, at the corner of Bank St. and Main St. From Route 6 (the Mid-Cape Highway)
take Exit 10, then go south on Route 124 to second stop sign. Turn left onto Main Street (Rt. 39). The Library is one block up on the right. Turn right onto
Bank St. to enter our parking lot, which will be on your left. Additional parking is located across Main Street behind the Harwich Town Hall and at Brooks Park.
Library Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 10 am to 7 pm
Friday & Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
Click here to see our Long Range Plan and FY2009 Action Plan.
Click here for information on our services for people with disabilities.
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.
BROOKS FREE LIBRARY updated 9/15/09