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LIBRARY INFORMATION
Brooks Memorial Library
224 Main Street,
Brattleboro,VT 05301
phone 802-254-5290 fax 802-257-2309
For general information and reference queries, please use the Ask-A-Librarian service
For genealogy or Brattleboro history queries, please use the AncestorAsk service
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Hours |
The Brooks Memorial Library is open: Monday - Wednesday: 10
a.m.-9 p.m.
Thursday-Friday: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. (Summer 2009 effective May 30 - Labor Day)
Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Directions |
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The Brooks Memorial Library is located on the intersection
of Routes 5 and 30 on Main street next to the Municipal Center.
From I-91 north or south:
- Take Exit 2.
- Turn left onto Route 9/Western Avenue.
- After approximately 1½ miles, the road splits (There is a service station at the split). Bear left, which is High Street.
- Follow High Street to a 4-way flashing stop; continue straight through that intersection until you reach Main Street. Turn left onto Main.
- The Library is two blocks up on the left, just before the Wells Fountain and District Court building. There is metered parking on the street.
Parking alternative: Instead of taking the left off High Street onto Main, take a slightly earlier left into the High/Grove municipal parking lot. It is just before the Café Lotus/Blue Moose store. You should look for it as soon as Main Street comes into view. There is a pay-and-display ticket dispenser in the lot.
From Route 9 east from New Hampshire:
- Take I-91 southbound and get off at Exit 2. Follow the directions above.
From Route 9 west from southern Vermont:
- Follow Route 9 east to I-91 interchange; at that point Route 9 is also Western Avenue. Follow the directions above.
From Route 30:
- Follow the signs to the downtown shopping district. The Library is on your right as you approach downtown, just beyond the large brick Municipal Center building on the right and the Wells Fountain on the left.
Parking: There are metered spaces on the street in front of the Library and beyond, or you can continue a couple blocks to the traffic light and turn right onto High Street. Look up to the right: just past the Café Lotus/Blue Moose, there is a municipal parking lot. There is a pay-and-display ticket dispenser in the lot.
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Mission |
The purpose of Brooks Memorial Library is to serve the learning,
information, personal enrichment, and leisure needs of people
of all ages in the Brattleboro community. To pursue this purpose,
the library 
provides ready access to basic library services and resources.
It seeks to expand individual access to information through
the use of current technologies, and offers the assistance
people need to find, evaluate, and use electronic and print
information resources.
Brooks strives to foster community cultural life by hosting
public meetings and exhibits, housing historic, fine arts,
and civic collections, and providing spaces that attract
adults, teens, and children to read, study, and browse.
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Goals |
- Library users of all ages will find the appropriate assistance
and up-to-date, dependable resources to answer questions
on a broad array of topics including, among others, business,
careers, consumerism, health, applied science and technology,
how-to, travel, language, literature, biography, history,
genealogy, and the arts.
- Library users of all ages will have adequate access to
popular recreational reading for pleasure as well as resources (both
print and electronic) concerning topics of current interest
to stimulate their thinking and satisfy their need for information.
- Library users of all ages will have opportunities to help
them develop skills to access and evaluate both print and
electronic resources.
- Library users of all ages will have access to programs,
services, materials, art exhibits, and informational displays,
to enhance their love of learning. The Library will provide
the opportunities for artists and organizations in the community
to display art and information.
- The library will provide a safe and welcoming place where
individuals and organizations will have access to bulletin
boards and meeting spaces.
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Spirit of Life |
The Spirit of Life was created by Daniel Chester French --Fine
Arts Collection in 1923. Brooks Memorial Library. One of six
replicas cast in bronze modeled after the Spencer Trask Memorial
Fountain in Saratoga Springs, New York. Photo credit: Greg
Bolosky.
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Library Card |
It is easy to get a library card. If you live in Brattleboro,
a library card may be obtained by presenting one form of identification
with your residential address. If you live outside of Brattleboro,
a card may be purchased for $48.00 per year ($25.00 for six
months). Extra cards may be purchased for $5.00.
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Goals |
The library's new five-year plan (2007-2011) identifies six service priorities adapted from seventeen Public Library Association's planning tools. The service priorities were further refined by input derived from the following: staff and trustees; a community forum of Brattleboro residents and library users ; and a community survey completed by over 450 area residents and library users. Read the November 29, 2007 press release here. Download the complete Plan as a PDF file.
Brooks Memorial
Library 2007-2011: Continuing the Collections, Connections, and Collaborations
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