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HOURS:

Tuesday
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Wednesday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Friday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Saturday
9:00 AM - 12 Noon

Wednesday hours: The library is now open 10am to 6pm.

Upcoming programs!

Retirement 102 Tuesday, May 22nd, 7pm-9pm. The second program in a series discussing the transitions to retirement. A panel of area professionals will share their experiences with life planning, fears and joys, and helpful tips for creating a Bucket List for this part of life's journey. Organized by Vicki Harriman, RN, MSN, retired from the health care field.

Vose Library Plant and Bake Sale Saturday, June 2nd, 8am-2pm on the Union Common. Our increasingly popular annual sale of freshly potted, hardy, local plants, especially perennials. Bake sale with delicious homemade baked goods. New this year: special plant pot sale! All pots made by local potters exclusively for the Vose Library Plant Sale. All proceeds benefit the Library.

Ongoing:

Story Time!
Baby and toddler storytime, Friday mornings at 10:15am. Songs, finger plays, and simple stories.

Book Club
May 30th, 1:15pm. This month the book Club is reading Catastrophe: An investigation into the origins of modern civilization, by David Keys. Hate it? Love it? Tell us why! Next up: One True Thing by Anna Quindlen.

Knitting Group
Every Wednesday from 6:30-8:30pm; check for exceptions. All are welcome. Bring your tangles, bring your skills--just come!

The mission of the Vose Library is to provide cultural materials to the people of the Union area to meet their literary, educational and recreational needs, and to do so in a spirit of service to the community.

The library is free to all for browsing and reference. Borrowing privileges are extended to all Union and Union area residents at no cost. Households must register and receive a borrowing number. Since the spring of 1999, Vose Library has been a member of the SAD 40 Library Consortium, which offers reciprocal borrowing privileges to the residents of all member towns including Warren, Washington, Waldoboro, and Friendship.

Videos, magazines, and new adult fiction may be borrowed for 10 days. All other materials may be kept for three weeks. Selected reference materials and certain rare or valuable editions are restricted to library use only. Renewals are permitted unless another person has requested the item and may be made in person or by telephone (785-4733). Books may be renewed twice only.

Books may be returned during regular library hours, or after hours to the bookdrop located to the left of the library entance. Audiobooks, videos and magazines should be returned to the bookdrop only if placed in a bag.

Vose Library can borrow books for patrons which are not found in the library collection.To arrange for interlibrary loan, call the library or email the library at voselibrarian@voselibrary.org. Vose Library asks only that patrons pay the cost of return postage for any materials obtained through interlibrary loan.

Vose Library was founded in 1932 with the bequest of a collection of books and $5000 from Helen Ayer Vose, a school teacher who was born in Union. The Vose Libary was first located on the second floor of the Vose building, above a local business. In 1938, it was moved to the Masonic Block where it inhabited a small corner of the local grocery store. In 1976 the library was relocated to the newly renovated Robbins House where it rented space from the Union Historical Society. In 1999 a capital campaign was begun to raise funds for a "home of our own", and in early 2011 the library moved into its own new building just down the street at 392 Common Road. Read more about the Home of Our Own campaign here.

The library is a non-profit corporation. Financial support for the library comes from interest from endowment funds, an annual appropriation from the town of Union, grants, gifts from individuals, and income from fundraising projects of the volunteer Ways and Means Committee. Contributions and memorial gifts are welcome and greatly appreciated. All gifts to the library are tax deductible.