We're eager to help you in your library needs and interests. We have a wonderful collection of over 15,000 materials here and enjoy helping the students and staff find what they need. The Maine State Library network - where we all have free access to a great, mostly full text choice of magazine, journal and newspaper titles. We announce it on the BEMS Student TV and display related books and materials in the library. At times we hold special library events, programs, or contests to support what we have featured.
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.