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
Brooks Free Library Board of Trustees
Robert Widegren, Vice Chair
William D. Crowell, Treasurer
Kathleen Remillard
Jeannie Wheeler
Monthly meetings: 2nd
Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at the Library.
Public input and feedback
welcome!
Brooks Free Library Staff
Ginny Hewitt, Library Director
Suzanne Martell, Public Services
Librarian
Jennifer Pickett, Reference
Librarian
Ann Carpenter, Youth Services
Librarian
Part-time staff members:
Mary
Jo Metzger, Library Clerk
Nicole Hansen, Senior
Library Technician
Phil Inman, Senior
Library Technician
Pam Paine, Senior
Library Technician
Joanne Clingan,
Senior Library Technician
Emily
Milan, Senior Library Technician
Carla
Burke, Vision Impaired Technology Assistance at the Library (VITAL)
Coordinator
Gordon
Benoit, Library Technician
Chardell
Davis, Library Technician
Lisa
Eagar, Library Technician
Fred
Flagg, Library Technician
Lee
Kelley, Library Technician
Tricia
Centrella, Custodian
Substitute staff members:
Adrienne
Eldredge
Jackie
Leach
Vince
Kraft
Judy
Nichols
Linda
Quinlan
For assistance with locating materials, placing holds
or overdue or lost materials, and
information on library programs and services, please
contact us by phone at 508-430-7562
or by email at bfl_mail@clamsnet.org.
Click here to see our Long Range Plan and FY2009 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.
BROOKS FREE LIBRARY updated 9/15/09