The library is now open at a limited capacity. Appointments are not required.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10am-6pm
Thursday 1-8pm
Saturday 10am-2pm
Pick up items curbside. The library continues to encourage patrons to borrow items through curbside service. For more information about how to borrow materials curbside, please visit www.minotsleeperlibrary.org/currentservices.html.
Thursday 1-8pm
Saturday 10am-2pm
Pick up items curbside. The library continues to encourage patrons to borrow items through curbside service. For more information about how to borrow materials curbside, please visit www.minotsleeperlibrary.org/currentservices.html.
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Kanopy gives you access to movies, documentaries, and kids shows. Sign up using your library card number, and access a ton of
fun movies and shows on your own device! 
Research Databases
(Card number required)
Do you need scholarly articles for homework or need up to date information on a topic?
Use EBSCO and sign in with your library card number! 
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Digital Resources
The library offers free access to e-books, downloadable audiobooks and digital magazines with Libby. You can also streaming movies, documentaries, and Great Courses at home using Kanopy. Click here to access these resources, as well as the library's databases. 2021 Candidates' Forum
Tax forms and booklets have arrived
Tax forms and instructional booklets are available for free at the library. Forms are available by curbside or can be picked up by booking an appointment at the library. 
Library Events
The library regularly hosts book and movie groups, a monthly poetry night, and special talks with presenters. Click here to view upcoming events. 
Nonfiction Book Group
Thursday, March 11 at 3pm Join us for a discussion of the book "On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's" by Greg O'Brien. To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online. Summary: This is a book about living with Alzheimer's, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor--a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease. Alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death in the US--and the only one of these diseases on the rise. More than 5 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or a related dementia; about 35 million people worldwide. Greg O'Brien, an award-winning investigative reporter, has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's and is one of those faceless numbers. Acting on long-term memory and skill coupled with well-developed journalistic grit, O'Brien decided to tackle the disease and his imminent decline by writing frankly about the journey. O'Brien is a master storyteller. His story is naked, wrenching, and soul searching for a generation and their loved ones about to cross the threshold of this death in slow motion. On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's is a trail-blazing roadmap for a generation--both a "how to" for fighting a disease, and a "how not" to give up! To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible. 
Virtual Story Time
March 12 , 2021 at 11 am Celebrate St.Patrick's Day this month with our virtual story times. This Friday for Virtual Story time join us as we read Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato . Virtual story times are every Friday at 11. Please email or the call the library for the meeting ID and password. Crafts are available to pick up this week at the library
Third Monday
March 15, 2021 at 10 am Join us for a discussion of the book "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr. To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online. Summary : From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible. 
Regenerative Reads Book Club Kick-Off: "A Sand County Almanac"
March 15 at 6:30pm Join the library in partnership with the Bristol Sustainability Committee for the third and final of our discussions about one of the most inspiring and noteworthy conservation books of all times. We’ll be discussing Part III of "A Sand County Almanac." Sign up for this book club at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-3sTIXFsfGk-RGDyKXMcrE259InOkJxUvy94N86L-8o_htg/viewform! *Note* Extra copies of "A Sand County Almanac" are available at the Minot-Sleeper Library and can be picked up curbside if you’d like to borrow a copy! Call the library at 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. 
Classic Book Group
Tuesday, March 16 at 6:30pm Join us for a discussion of the book "Go Tell it on the Mountain" by James Baldwin . To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online. Summary: first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible. 
Movie Group
Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30 pm Join us for a discussion of the film "Daughters of the Dust". I capture the castle can be seen on Kanopy. A copy can be picked up from the library. The discussion will be held online. Summary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and were one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Set in 1902. To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible. 
Poetry Night
Thursday, April 1 at 6:30pm The community is invited to join us for an evening of sharing poetry - your own original poetry or your published favorites. All ages welcome. This event will be held on Zoom. Attendees may join online or call in using a telephone To request the link, meeting ID, and password or telephone number, please email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com or call 603-744-3352. 
Knot Only Knitters
Every Monday from 2:30-4:30pm Join knitters and other fiber arts enthusiasts for a virtual meet-up and conversation every Monday afternoon. All are welcome to take part. To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible. Board of Trustees meetings are held the fourth Thursday of each month at 5pm online using Zoom, unless otherwise noted.
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