I love my local library - the librarian has great recommendations and actively seeks out authors and titles of interest to the community. Our library is a great resource for our small town. Further, through Libby and CW Mars I get much wider access to ebooks and audiobooks!

I fell in love with libraries as a child and never fell out. I’m a lonely champion of my local libraries, telling friends and anyone who will listen- the library is a treasure. Don’t buy; borrow! I visit weekly. Walking the shelves in quiet meditation, a tactile thing in a digital life. Knowledge in a misinformation algorithm. I borrow books, magazines, sewing machines, games, tools, museum passes. There isn’t a social resource, I’d say, more vital to our imaginations and well being.

Homeschooling two children for 9 years, we used hundreds and hundreds of books to enrich every aspect of our curriculum! It was possible because of CWMARS! And Belchertown Clapp Memorial Library!