Catalog
Find out what items we own or where else to get them. Put reserves on books, renew the ones you have out or change your password and account info.
Museum Passes
Check before you go to see if you can save some dough
Calendar
Find out what events and meetings are going on at the Library
Links
A collection of links to information and fun. Including a bunch of kids links.
Teachers
A message to teachers on how we can serve you and your students better.
Visitors
If you visited the library and we took your picture, you are here.
Rules
Rules and regulations for borrowers
History
A brief history of the Millicent Library.
People
A list of staff, volunteers, and Trustees.
Friends
A little about the Friends of the Millicent Library and an application for membership.
Archives
Description of our local history collection and how you can set up an appointment to use it.
Town of Fairhaven
A little about the town with some links to find out and see more. Includes links to our own pages of Fairhaven history as well as non-library pages; pages with photos; lists of organizations and businesses and other things Fairhaven.
Manjiro
This link takes you to the Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Society (formerly the Sister City Committee.)
Henry Rogers
Information on our benefactor and Standard Oil magnate.
Mark Twain
Page dealing with Rogers' good friend.
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Summer Reading Program survey
Click
Here to take the 2008 Summer Reading Program survey. Help Ms. Laura make
it better next year!
Millicent Library Teen Blog
Find out what's new in the Young Adult section of the library, recommendations on what to read and a chance to be involved in helping to write the blog. See a picture of Ms. Laura kissing a goat!!!!!
Fairhaven Reads --
Sponsored by the Fairhaven Sustainability Committee who encourage all town residents to read Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life over the summer. The library will be adding extra copies of this in paperback. We currently have it in hardcover and audio CD (mp3) and as an Overdrive download (may be burned to CD). There will be a discussion on Sunday, September 14th at 3 pm at the Fairhaven Farmers Market at the High School.
Monday Evening Book Discussion Group:
Program starts at 7 pm. Use the Walnut Street entrance
- June 30, 2008 -- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- September 29 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- October 27 -- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Thursday Morning Book Discussion Group:
Program starts at 10 a.m. - Walnut Street entrance
- September 18, 2008- The Old Wine Shades by Martha Grimes
- October 16 - Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- November 20 - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- December 11- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- January 15, 2009 - The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
- February 19 - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- March 19 - The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
- April 16 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- May 21 - All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve
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Boston Public Library remote access
Sign up for a Boston Public Library ecard--it's easy and you can access databases and downloads. You have to be a resident, employee, or property owner in Massachusetts and be at least 13 years old. This is fantastic, so check it out!
Millicent Library databases
The library is subscribing to a lot of new databases that you can access from home, as long as you have a Millicent Library card (residents of other towns should check the websites of their home libraries to see if they offer access).
Do you think the Library is haunted????
Maybe it's haunted, and maybe not!
What do you think?
Coe Hall at Planting Fields was
the home of H.H. Rogers' daughter, Mai. Mai (nee Mary) was married to William Robertson Coe.
Read the story in Newsday.com about the Fairhaven Copper Beech that was moved by HH Rogers' daughter to Long Island.
The Millicent Rogers Museum in
Taos, New Mexico, founded by Rogers granddaughter, Millicent (not our
Millicent!). (Mary) Millicent Rogers was the daughter of Henry Huddleston Rogers, our founder's only son.
Anglesey
Abbey, home of Lord and Lady Fairhaven. Lady Fairhaven was Cara Rogers (our Millicent's sister) who married Urban Broughton. It is just outside Cambridge, England.
The American Museum in Bath. This museum in Britain was co-founded by Dallas Pratt. His mother's mother was Anne Engle Rogers, another sister of our Millicent, who was married to William Evarts Benjamin.
Fairhaven Alumni Association
Fairhaven Improvement Association
Fairhaven Heritage Center
Fairhaven Police Department
Official Town of Fairhaven web page
Fairhaven Office of Tourism page
Fairhaven Fort Phoenix Page
Fairhaven Recreation Center
Fairhaven Fire Department
Fairhaven Public Schools
Library
Hours:
Monday and Wednesday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesday.
Thursday, Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Closed Sundays and Holidays
Archives and Historical
Research by appointment (see separate
page)
We really welcome comments on the site and
suggestions as to what you would like to see. For example do you want more
links? Or more pictures of Fairhaven? More old photos and historical
articles? Please let us know. Thanks!
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