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Monday 8am - 6pm Tuesday 8am - 6pm Wednesday 8am - 6pm Thursday 8am - 6pm Friday 8am - 5pm Saturday 9am - 4pm

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Visit us at www.ilsleypubliclibrary.org The Children's Room closes 15 minutes before the rest of the building.

06/19/2026

🌿🎋LEARN TO IDENTIFY PLANTS USING iNATURALIST
Sunday, June 21 - 2:00-4:00pm @ Mini-Ilsley
Register here: https://libcal.ilsleypubliclibrary.org/event/16788859

➡️With apps like iNaturalist, Seek, and PictureThis, your smartphone can be a powerful tool for decoding the natural world. Simply snap a few photos of an organism, and the app will analyze them to generate identification suggestions.

➡️While it sounds simple, common mistakes can lead to incorrect identifications. It takes practice and skill to use these tools effectively. In this workshop, led by iNaturalist Ambassador Robin Andresen, you will:

- Learn how to take high-quality photos of plants.
- Gain tips for navigating auto-generated suggestions.
- Get hands-on practice identifying plants using iNaturalist.

➡️Participants should come prepared to spend a short time outside and bring a charged smart device with the iNaturalist app already downloaded. Please remember to create an iNaturalist account beforehand if it is your first time using the app. Enter the National Bank of Middlebury Meeting Room from Printers Alley. Sponsored by Pollinator Pathway of Addison County.

06/18/2026

📢UPDATE 2:32PM: Sarah Partridge is OPEN!

📢📢ALERT: Please be advised that Sarah Partridge Library will have a DELAYED opening today, Thursday, June 18, due to the inclement weather. We hope to be open by 2:30pm but this may change if the weather worsens again. Keep an eye on this post for more updates. Stay safe if you have to be out driving this afternoon!

06/12/2026

Summer reading is ON for all ages!

Stop by the library and get a youth/teen challenge sheet or an adult challenge brochure, read read read, and win fun prizes! We look forward to seeing you at the library this summer.

Pictured: Jennifer & Tricia!

06/11/2026

REMINDER: Join us tomorrow at 1:00pm at Mini-Ilsley!

Author Edith Forbes will discuss her newest release "The Lawnmower Lady," which touches on themes of New England culture, Green Burial, death, religion, politics, and more. We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you to Palliative Support Services at Porter Medical Center for partnering with us on this event.

06/09/2026

Click through these slides as Beet tells you all about the Ilsley's 2026 Summer Reading Program, PLANT A SEED, READ!

There are reading challenges for youth, teens, and adults, each with the opportunity for fun prizes. Thank you to our sponsors Haymaker Bun Company, ShireTown Marketplace, Toad Hall Flowers, Vermont Book Shop, and National Bank of Middlebury!

06/07/2026

Congratulations to Addison County's Senator Ruth Hardy, who won the Senator Patrick Leahy Library Advocate of the Year Award at this year's Vermont Library Association annual conference!

Some of Senator Hardy's noteworthy contributions to the Vermont library landscape include: Act 66, creating a working group to report on the Status of Libraries in Vermont; Act 150, legislation protecting readers' constitutional rights & libraries from indiscriminate book bans; and S.232, which expands funding options for library programs & creates Vermont Library Day.

We are so glad to have such an incredible library advocate right in our backyard. Thank you for your work, Senator Hardy!

Photo: Rachel Muse, VLA Conference Co-Chair (left), Senator Ruth Hardy (right)

06/06/2026

Our 2026 Summer Reading Program, "Plant a Seed, Read," will begin very soon! The challenge for youth and teens begins on JUNE 12, and the challenge for adults begins on JUNE 15.

Stay tuned for more information about these two challenges on Facebook this week, provided by our friend BEET!

06/03/2026

Join us for this fun author event at Mini-Ilsley on Friday, June 12 at 1:00pm!

Author Edith Forbes will discuss her newest release "The Lawnmower Lady," which touches on themes of New England culture, Green Burial, death, religion, politics, and more. We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you to Palliative Support Services at Porter Medical Center for partnering with us on this event.

05/27/2026

Thank you to everyone who walked with the Ilsley during Monday's Memorial Day Parade, and to everyone who cheered us on when we passed by!

Those who got some of our parade swag saw that our library grand re-opening will be on Saturday, August 29! We are so excited and can't wait to welcome everyone in to the new space.

📸: Joe McVeigh

05/26/2026

🎥Join the Ilsley and the Pollinator Pathway of Addison County on Thursday, May 28 for a free screening of the documentary "The Little Things that Run the World" at 7:00pm!

🦋With enchanting visuals and vignettes, the film explores how bees, butterflies, beetles and their kin, our distant cousins on our evolutionary tree, sustain ecosystems and ultimately our own survival. It leaves viewers with a sense of wonder and an optimistic call to action.

No tickets required. Arrive early to assure seating; we will be in the NBM Meeting Room, which can be accessed through the back of the building.

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75 Main Street
Middlebury, VT
05753

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 4pm

Website

http://www.ilsleypubliclibrary.org/

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