LIBRARY HOURS: Tues 9:30am–6:00pm; Weds 1:00pm–8:00pm; Thurs 3:00pm–6:00pm; Sat 9:30am–3:00pm; CLOSED Sun, Mon, Fri
Services & Resources
The library houses books for casual reading. While most of the books are fiction, there are useful books in most areas of interest to town residents. We belong to the Catamount Library Network, which gives you access to the collections of our 23 sister libraries. And if none have what you need, we can get it for you, through interlibrary loan or by purchasing it.
We house a special collection of books on Vermont and Vermont topics. This includes material on the town (including a complete set of Town Reports) and genealogy material on several Guilford families.
A large number of books are available for use by children. Most of these books are located in bins that make them accessible to small hands. The library encourages active and enthusiastic use of these books. Children's work, created at the library, is always on display.
The following free services are available to all Guilford Free Library cardholders. There is no charge for a library card. We only require your name, your mailing address, and your phone number to issue your card. You will be assigned a card number, and you may borrow books for three weeks and movies for two weeks. There is no limit on the number of books you may borrow!
Click the links below to access free online content. Please contact us if you need account numbers or passwords.
Search for books available for loan from the 23 CLN libraries. Your library card number is your login, and your password is the last four digits of your phone number.
Downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks. Your library card number is your login, and your password is the last four digits of your phone number.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Choose among 70,000 free ePub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
Gale Databases (formerly Vermont Online Library) offers a variety of resources for education, lifelong learning, and academic research. Whether you are looking for peer-reviewed articles, full-text magazines, newspapers, eBooks, primary source documents, videos or podcasts, Gale puts the right vetted content and tools at your fingertips! Your password is written on your library card.
Booklist Online offers free content to non-subscribers including a Review of the Day (a highlighted review), and a generous selection of additional reviews and features written exclusively for Booklist Online. Subscribers also gain access to digital editions of Booklist and the full Booklist Online database, which contains more than 180,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992, along with 8,000 new reviews and related features every year.