Snow day

We are CLOSING EARLY on Monday, December 2, due to travel warnings. We will open at our usual 10 AM to provide a warm space and expect to be open regular hours on Tuesday, December 3. Yes! You can borrow items. Babies & Toddlers Rock is CANCELLED for today. 

books & more sale

Find books, DVDs, comics, puzzles and software at great prices. Our monthly sales have a huge selection of carefully curated items. Great prices, great people.

Friday, December 6: 10-4 & Saturday, December 7: 10-2

December's highlight is holiday books. Cookbooks & paperback romances are buy one, get one free!

Run by Friends of Rutland Free Library ... download a coupon for your first title free.

Game on!

Learn a new game in a minute and play! This month's game is Exploding Kittens ... a card game for people who are into kittens and explosions... and laser beams... and sometimes goats. If enough people show up we'll order pizza, yay food!

Free and open to all people in grades 7-12. No registration required. 

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 5 to 6:30 PM in the Fox Room

The Other America II

Using as inspiration Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech “The Other America,” author Mitchell S. Jackson reflects on his childhood in a poor, black community in Portland, Oregon—where he witnessed drug use, gang violence, and sexual exploitation—and reveals how he transformed despair into hope.

Dec. 4, 7 PM Fox Room

A Vermont Humanities Council presentation.