Prospect Public Library

On Sunday, June 16, 1991, the new 7000 square foot Prospect Public Library, which had been in the planning stage for 4 years, opened its doors. State and federal funds, plus private and town donations enabled the new 1.2 million dollar building to open. Since then, the Library has rapidly expanded its services and collection.

Our hours are:

We have on-going children's programs for children 3-10; story hours, educational vidoes, crafts hours, and special children's programs during the year. Call us at 758-3001 for information. We also have a Friends of the Library Group, which plans lots of activities. Please join us! We have lots of new video, C-D ROM, audio books, magazines, 2 PC's for public use, 2 Internet Terminal, a FAX, best sellers, and new reference books. We can borrow almost anything for you on our "Request" inter-library loan website. We have "InfoTrac", a computer "CD" work station, which can help you locate magazine articles you need, and a reader-printer to help you print out copies of old articles. We are here to serve you - please come see us.

The Prospect Library will now be open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting on September 6. The sign-up for the fall story program for children 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years of age will be Saturday, September 6 at 10 a.m. The Prospect library will be closed on Saturday, September 20.

Remember that you may access the library's catalog at www.prospectct.com/library"www.prospectct.com/library. From this site you may also access the statewide databases for reseatch questions and searching for books not physically located at our library.

Some of the new books received are Christopher Anderson's Somewhere in Heaven, Stephen Coonts' Assassin, Philip Craig's Vineyard Chill , Andrew Davidson's Gargoyle, Michael Dobbs' One Minute to Midnight, Jasper Fford's Shades of Grey, Chelsea Handler's Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea, Elizabeth Lowell's Blue Smoke and Murder, Phillip Margolis' Executive Privilege, Diane Palmer's Fearless, Anne Siddons' Off Season, and Benjamin Wallace's The Billionaire's Vinegar.

A few of the new movies on DVD that have been received include 10,000 BC, Bank Job, Fool's Gold, Penelope, and Twitches Two.

In the Community Room for September, we will be displaying the art of Denise Hartz.