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What’s happening at the library?
The Bixby Library is currently offering remote services while we navigate the demands of Covid-19. We are bringing the library to you! We are available by email, live chat (click the chat bubble in the corner during normal business hours), or by phone (802-877-2211), please be patient and we will reach back out to you as soon as possible.
We have greatly increased our digital offerings. Please check out our online resources to check out all the ebooks, audiobooks, databases, and more that you can access with your Bixby Library card. Check our events calendar for virtual programming.
If you live in Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes or Waltham we can sign you up remotely for a Bixby Library card. Please email Maddy or Laksamee with your Name, Address, Phone Number, and Email. We can help you get a card and provide instruction on accessing resources.
Book returns: Anyone with an Inter Library Loan or a last name begining with A-G may bring returns back to the Bixby. Drop in either of the 2 book drops. Please wait if your last name does not begin with A-G or if you or your family is sick. There are still no overdues or fines being accrued at this time.
Wifi: Our free wifi, “Bixby Free Internet” will stay on and patrons can use our wifi from outside the building. There is also a map of public wifi hotspots all across Vermont.
Communication: The library will maintain communication through our website, Front Porch Forum, and Facebook. You can also sign up to receive our newsletter.
Recent Staff Announcements
Director Announces Retirement of Beloved Librarian I was saddened when Rachel Plant, our Youth Services Librarian of many years, let me know on May 14 that she had decided to retire. Yet as someone who believes that our lives are filled with many wonderful chapters, I am happy for her to be finding the next meaningful… Read More
A letter from Ms. Rachel Hello Bixby families, patrons, volunteers, civic partners, teachers, child care providers, Members of Bixby Friends, Vt Dept. Of Libraries, colleagues past and current and trustees. I am announcing my retirement. What a strange and bittersweet sentence that is. I have been a member of the Bixby community for nearly twenty… Read More
Bixby Welcomes New Director Message from Paula Moore, President of Bixby's Board of Trustees: The pandemic might have been seen as a roadblock but thanks to Zoom, the Bixby board completed the search for its next director right on schedule and made the unanimous decision to hire Catharine Findiesen Hays. Her start date is… Read More
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