Library Hours
Monday: 9:00 - 5:00
Tuesday: 9:00 - 8:30
Wednesday: 9:00 - 5:00
Thursday: 9:00 - 8:30
Friday: 9:00 - 5:00
Saturday: 9:00 - 5:00
(Saturday in summer:
9:00 - 1:00)
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Welcome
Job Opening: Library Assistant
Josh Meyer has landed a terrific opportunity at a horticultural library in Pennsylvania. Congratulations to Josh! As a result of his departure, the library is seeking to fill a part-time position. Click here for complete details.
Are you planning a trip to Walt Disney World, or have you always wanted to go? On Saturday, May 19th at 2:00 p.m., Cape Elizabeth resident Kevin Davis will present tips and tricks for saving money and making the most of a family’s vacation time at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Click here for complete details!
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Preserving the Land through Art This exhibit shares the students' firsthand experience of the beauty of nature when visiting Robinson Woods II through their photographs. The Preserving the Land through Art grant was awarded to the Cape Elizabeth Middle School Art department by the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust to cultivate the concepts of preserving the lands of Cape Elizabeth for future generations by using student art as a vehicle of communication and to integrate stewardship through art making into the Cape Elizabeth Middle School art curriculum. |
Cape Kids Invited to Participate in Russian Early Literacy Contest
Children in Cape Elizabeth have an unusual opportunity to have their work exhibited at the Timiryazev State Museum of Biology in Moscow during the book festival Beasts, Birds, and Others on the Pages of Children’s Books. This opportunity comes about courtesy of Elizaveta Prudovskaya, the daughter of Cape residents Igor and Svetlana Prudovsky. Elizaveta is a journalist and translator, currently working for Papmambook, a website designed to support family literacy. Over the past year, Elizaveta has been helping to the develop the Papmambook website. For more information, please click here.
Library Seeks Donations of Bubble Wrap
and Padded Envelopes
Do you have these packing materials at home? Instead of throwing them out, please give them to the library. We use them to protect audio and video materials so they don't get damaged when traveling through interlibrary loan. Sorry, we don't need packing peanuts!
Do You Have an eReader?
We have just updated our tutorials on using the Maine InfoNet Download Library to borrow eBooks. Click on the links below to download our tutorials as a PDF. Click here for more information.
Library Receives New Computers as Part of State Library Grant
Thomas Memorial Library is one of a group of libraries across that state that have received a new computer workstations as part of federal grant awarded to the Maine State Library. These new computers are equipped with all the software needed for the library to offer the LearningExpress Library online learning platform. This new service provides over 770 of the most up-to-date test preparation and skill-building resources, helping both students and adults prepare for a wide range of academic and career-oriented exams as well as improve basic skills in reading, writing, and math. Read more.
The Library is a Busy Place!
Lectures, book groups, concerts, financial literacy programs, dance parties--a lot has been going on at the library in recent months. Below is a slideshow of photos from some of these programs.
Take Heart:
A Conversation in Poetry Each week, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair's Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry column offers newspapers and libraries across Maine one previously published poem by a Maine poet. The Thomas Memorial Library is pleased to participate. To read the latest poems, please click here. |
| Would you like to read more poetry? Why not explore the library's Gabriel A. Zimpritch Poetry & Writing Collection. For more information on this extensive collection of poetry and writing materials, please click here. |
Borrow a Kill a Watt® Energy Detector!
Sure to be one of the most requested and popular “whodunits” at public libraries around Maine is the Kill A Watt®. 
No, it's not the latest mystery novel on the bestseller list, but rather an electricity usage monitor and educational tool kit available for free checkout from the library. The monitors will help Mainers detect the “energy thieves” in their homes, and the tool kit will help them put the lid on power consumption by appliances and electronics in their homes and businesses. Simply plug an electrical device into the monitor, and plug the monitor into an outlet in your home. The monitor will let you know exactly how much energy your appliances, chargers, and other electical devices use, and how much money you could save by keeping them unplugged. Read more.
When you find a book of interest in the library's catalog, you can click on the "More About This Item" button to read a summary, published reviews, or sometimes even a sample chapter or excerpt. (Older titles may not have any additional information available.)
Note: You must have your brower's pop-up blocker turned off in order for this feature to work!
If you are interested in finding, for example, only the movie version of a Harry Potter title, you can use the Limit/Sort Search button to limit your search to a particular "material type"-- in this case "DVD." If you are only interested in an audiobook on CD, you can select "spoken CD" as a material type.
Click here for a step-by-step tutorial on limiting your searches.
If you want to browse the catalog and reserve a number of items, you can avoid having to type in your name and barcode number each time you want to place a hold by logging into your patron record first. Once you are logged in, all you have to do to request an item is click on the Request button!
For instructions on logging into your patron record, click here.
We create catalog records for many our popular fiction titles for adults and children well in advance of their publication date. You can reserve these titles just like you would any other item in our collection.
Click here to go to the New and Forthcoming Books page.
Click here for information on how to place a reserve.
Get a reminder notice from us before your books are due!
If we have your correct email address in your library record, you will automatically receive an email reminder notice from us three days before your items are due. If you have borrowed books from other libraries through interlibrary loan, you will receive a reminder email notification from the libraries that own the materials you borrowed. Not sure if we have your email address on file? Give us a call at 799-1720.
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