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South Londonderry Free Library January 2012


Forester and Vermont author, Lynn Levine, will present a one hour interactive program investigating New England wildlife on Saturday, January 21 at 10:30 am. This presentation is hosted by the South Londonderry Free Library and will be held at the Londonderry Town Assembly Room, just up the hill from the library.

Levine is the author of Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Tracking Guide and Snow Secrets and so she is well informed to transform participants into animal detectives. Everyone will learn skills to interpret signs of our wildlife neighbors in our backyards or in the woods. Through storytelling, Levine’s passion for the forest shines through and will engage and delight children and their adults. This program is offered free of charge but donations are welcome
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In the Janeway Wing, Laura Megroz is exhibiting her pillows and rugs. All the sales are donated to the library. See view at Photo gallery.


South Londonderry Free Library Extends Hours:  The South Londonderry Free Library is pleased to announce that we will be open an extra 2 hours every week bringing the total hours open to 23 hours per week. The new hours will be on Friday mornings from 10 am to noon starting August 5.  We invite everyone to the library on the following days and hours:  Mondays - 10 am to noon and 1 to 5 pm; Wednesdays – 10 am to noon, 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm; Fridays 10 am to noon and .

While visiting the library you can view the current art exhibit, use our computers and wi-fi, or check out books, magazines audios and videos. If you have time please take a look at the albums of old photographs of this area of Vermont in the early 1900s that were made into prints from Everett M. Vaile’s glass plates.

Learn Something New Today!  A wonderful new service is being provided by the Vermont Department of Libraries and the South Londonderry Free Library. You will now be able to take online continuing education courses at your convenience for Free. Over 500 subjects include classes about photography, poetry writing & cooking to medical terminology, wedding planning or caring for seniors. You will have up to 6 months to complete each class. Go to vermontstate.universalclass.com to see all the topics you might be interested in. You will then need to call, Email or visit the Library to get your barcode number. It's as simple as that to open the door to an interesting adventure.

Some new books that we recently received include The Greater Journey by David McCullough, State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, Thick As Thieves by Peter Spieglman, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell.

For Children: Let’s Do Nothing, Here Comes the Garbage Barge, 11 Birthdays, Love-a-Duck, Toot Toot Zoom! How the Nobble Was Finally Found, Detective LaRue - Letters from the Investigation, and Just A Dream.  Recently donated were many new DVDs for children and adults.


Thanks to all the volunteers at the Thrifty Attic for their generous grant to the library.

Thanks to all patrons for your generous response to the library's annual appeal letter
and to the Brayman Family Foundation of Collier County.


The South Londonderry Free Library would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous bequest of Karl Pfister III.

Karl was always an enthusiastic supporter of the Library and his presence and contagious laugh will be missed. He was the embodiment of the word “Gentleman”. Karl was a gentle man and a man of science and letters as well.

Karl’s involvement with the South Londonderry Free Libraries goes back many years when he and his wife Peg served on the Board of Trustees. They are responsible for organizing the Everett M. Vaile glass plates, that depicted life in this area in the early 1900s, and they were strong advocates of the importance of this modest, local library.

One of Karl’s passions was genealogical research and along with Peter F. Littlefield and the Historical Society published Genealogies of Early Weston, Vermont 1800-1900. Karl would often come to the library to request books on inter-library loan to aid in this research.

The South Londonderry Free Library will use Karl’s bequest to improve a place that he thought valuable and dearly loved.


Any student (or adult) who is computer savvy and who would like to donate some community services hours to the library please call us at 824-3371. We are looking for someone who can maintain and keep in good working order our public computers and printers. This would entail making sure that the 5 computers have anti-virus protection and that they are up-to-speed. Installing learning-software on our children's computer would also be great. Any help will be gratefully accepted!

The South Londonderry Free Library is looking for volunteers who enjoy books and people and have a few hours a week to spare. Being in a stimulating and friendly environment surrounded by books and meeting new people are but a few of the benefits of volunteering at the library.

We are currently looking for volunteers for Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings but there are other time slots available on occasion. Primary responsibilities would be managing the circulation desk – checking in and out books, shelving books and reminding patrons about their overdues.

If anyone enjoys reading to children we could arrange a pre-school storytime once a week. Other volunteer possibilities could be filing, cataloguing books, arranging magazines or adding newly-developed Vaile photographs, taken in the early 1900s in Vermont, into photo albums.


Vintage Vermont photographic display - Vaile Collection
To date over 1,900 images from the Vaile glass plate collection have been printed and mounted in 16 photo albums. These albums depicting life in Vermont in the late 1800s and early 1900s will be on display for all to enjoy. Comments or additional information about the people or places viewed will be welcome.

For the past five years Dan Hescock and Bob LeBlond of Wardsboro have been meeting weekly to develop the Vaile collection and invite anyone interested to go to Wardsboro to learn the process. To date Hescock and LeBlond have developed approximately 1,700 prints. Ellen Lyman and various library volunteers have mounted these prints in 13 albums identifying them by plate number, title and date. The library thanks the Thrifty Attic for their help in funding this on-going project.

The Vaile Collection consists of many family pictures, portraits of babies and pictures of houses which are no longer standing and many that still exist. The library invites everyone interested in local Vermont history to stop by to see if you can identify any people or places and view way of life long gone through these splendid photographs.


Due to the overwhelming supply of donated books, we cannot accept any more at this time. While we welcome your interest and support, the library is reorganizing rooms and we do not have storage space.

Library hours are: Mondays from 10 am to noon and 1 to 5 pm; Wednesdays – 10 am to noon, 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm; Fridays from10 am to noon, 1 to 5 pm and Saturdays we are open from 10 am to 1 pm. The phone number is 824-3371.

You can send us an email at southlondonderryfreelibrary@yahoo.com or visit us on the Web at Facebook or better yet, visit us in person!

See you at the Library!

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