Adults learning to read use the computer room. Community groups of all kinds, from scouts and the Rotary Club, to the local child-care network, a homeschoolers group and the historical society use the library for their meetings. The library has also reached out to the smaller towns in its vicinity. For ten years Pat Hazelhurst has been involved in the effort to improve the level of literacy in the community. The library has made use of humanities council's reading programs for adults learning to read, child-care providers, teen parents and their children and other at risk groups.
Programs help parents and child care providers draw children into reading.
They serve adults learning to read and have endeavored to recruit new students into that program. The goals of their efforts are to increase school readiness, increase the number of adults learning to read, and engage more children and young in reading. Reading groups, family groups and a rickety bookmobile, which traverses the region during the summer, are central activities. Collaborators with the library include Head Start, Vermont Early Childhood Projects, Americorps, America Reads, Success by Six, the regional Child Care Resource and Referral Center, the regional adult basic education, Program, and local schools.