Collections
- Adult
- Located mainly in the Centennial Wing, the adult collection is approximately 35,000 books, including fiction, nonfiction, and books by Maine authors. Also available are videos, music CDs, books-on-tape, and large print books.
- Reference
- Internet access, books, and a variety of databases and CD-ROMs are available here. For instance, we have MARVEL, a database of magazine and newspaper articles. Maps, atlases, and dictionaries may also be found here.
- Children
- More than 14,000 titles, including picture books, books-on-tape, early readers, and board books for babies are available in the Children’s Room. The Juvenile Room, adjacent to the sound proof Children’s Room, offers the older child nonfiction, literature, reference materials, magazines, biographies, fiction, and more than 600 videos.
- Video
- More than 2000 titles make this one of the midcoast area’s largest video collections. Educational, instructional, travel, cultural, and popular videos may be borrowed for seven days. Videos are shelved according to the Dewey Decimal systems.
- Periodicals
- The collection of periodicals, housed in the upstairs Reading Room, includes popular magazines as well as back issues of local and national newspapers.
- Maine Books and Authors
- The Reading Room hosts this collection of hundreds of books about Maine or by Maine authors.
- Rare Books
- Cherished classics, including first editions and out-of-print works, are available in the Reading Room.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
- Housed behind the Circulation Desk are two scrapbooks of materials pertaining to the world-famous Camden poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Please ask at the Circulation Desk if you would like to use this collection.
- Rossborough Women’s Studies
- Materials of historical and current women’s studies comprise this special memorial collection, which is interspersed in our circulating collection.
- Ambrose C. Cramer Collection
- This book collection has a strong concentration on European and early American art and architecture and features rare classics and first editions. The collection is housed on the third floor.