CLOUD LIBRARY
Access ebooks & audio books via the Maine InfoNet Download Library. You can check out 3 books for 21 days.
Click the red tab below and select
Waterford Library Association
from the dropdown menu.
Log in with your library card number, download the CloudLibrary app.
There is also a link for graphic novels:
CLOUD LIBRARY
Access ebooks & audio books via the Maine InfoNet Download Library. You can check out 3 books for 21 days.
Click the red tab below and select
Waterford Library Association
from the dropdown menu.
Log in with your library card number, download the CloudLibrary app.
There is also a link for graphic novels:
https://www.maineinfonet.org/comicsplus/
Spring 2023 Update
In addition to great books, movies, and TV shows to borrow, free 24/7 curbside WiFi, our weekly Coffee Cafe' and monthly Book Clubs are in person and on Zoom. Email for link to join: waterfordmelibrary@gmail.com
Mon. 2-6pm
Tues. 10:30am-12:30pm
Wed. 3-8pm
Fri. 10am-noon
Sat. 10am -2pm
CLOSED New Year's Day * Christmas
OPEN most other Monday Holidays
SNOW / INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY
IF SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED - SO ARE WE
Be Safe out there
Waterford Library Association
663 Waterford Road
/ PO Box 176
Waterford, ME 04088
207-583-2050
The Waterford Library is committed to providing a focal point for reading, learning, and discovering, in an historical building with a warm friendly atmosphere, through a cooperative community effort.
Doretta Colburn - President
Sarah Coelho Webster - Vice President
Jane Traill - Treasurer
John Wait - Secretary
Ting Doore, Edward Girzone, Geraldine O'Donnell, Robert Spencer, Alan Struck,
Director/Librarian: Nancy Eaton
Our circulation desk is staffed by
helpful and friendly library volunteers.
Related/Interesting Links
http://www.libraryworld.com/ipac.html
Are you passionate about what we're doing? Let us know! We're always looking for people to help make our vision a reality, and will gladly help you find a way to volunteer that best suits your skills and interests. We're excited to have you join us!
Whether you support the Library as a reader, visitor, volunteer, donor, attendee, or in any capacity - thank you. Because of your participation, the Waterford Library thrives as a center for community, learning, internet access, and information sharing.
Prior to 1899, the Ladies Sewing Circle of Waterford carried on a lending library at the Knight store, run by Sarah and Carrie Knight. In 1899, the Circle incorporated as the Ladies Library Association of Waterford, electing Sarah Knight as its first librarian. Three years later, Mrs. Florence Rounds was elected assistant librarian. Interest in the library grew and more room was needed for books. The Knight sisters began construction of a stone building on the front of their lot, but both died only a few weeks apart in August 1911. In 1912 the old association turned its property over to the newly formed Waterford Library Association. Mrs. Rounds was chosen as new librarian and she appointed Miss Charlotte Morse (Fillebrown) as assistant librarian.
On Oct. 1, 1937 a fire destroyed the Knight Store, parts of the library, and other nearby buildings. In early 1938, the library's second floor was renovated in the new Dutch Colonial style. The association received the deed to the land where the store had been, a gift from Albert Rice, Mabel Gage and Dr. Bishop. That land now houses the Rice Museum, was moved from Rice Hill to the site in 1978.
In South Waterford, the Bear Mountain Library Association was started in 1928, along with the Community Club, which supported the library for 48 years. The Library was located on the first floor of the home of Flora Hamlin Abbott, a great benefactor of the library along with her sister, Alice Hamlin Warren. On September 30, 1994, the Bear Mountain Library merged with the Waterford Library in the Flat. The consolidation leaves the town with one library serving all Waterford residents.
The library is an Arts & Crafts / Colonial Revival style building designed by noted Portland architect John Calvin Stevens and his son John Howard Stevens. This firm was also responsible for rebuilding the second story after the 1937 fire. The library is part of the Waterford Flat Historic District.
Original Library with "Fairytale" style roof. ca. 1911-37.
In 2019. a grant from Northern Forest, the TKing Foundation, and Maine Community Foundation updated our internet access WiFi, added two new public Dell Laptops, and a Brother Printer. We were most grateful for this gift that included Microsoft Office and Adobe to help visitors with writing and publishing. Just two years later in late 2021 we received another grant from projectConnect (ITDRC) to upgrade with an entirely new router, modem, 1000 GB WiFi, and outdoor satellite extender. Thank YOU