Ledyard Libraries Working Together

As anyone familiar with Ledyard knows, there are two separate identities in our small town. We have two zip codes, two post offices, even two libraries, but we are one town. In the early days of Ledyard, there were two distinct population centers. There was the farming town of Ledyard Center and the vacation village of Gales Ferry. It wasn't until the 1950's when housing developments began to spring up all over town, that the distinctions began to blur. Now that we have a mobile society traveling all over town, we have come to see ourselves as one unit working together.

At the libraries that means both branches working together. Our staff rotates between Bill Library in Ledyard Center and the Gales Ferry Library. We collaborate to make two libraries function as one big (or really medium sized) library for the town. We move books and other items between the libraries five days a week. We hold programs that require a larger seating arrangement in the meeting room at Bill Library and groups that are more intimate meet in the Gales Ferry multi-purpose basement. Story times for smaller groups are held in one library, but the more popular age groups have sessions at both libraries.

Although you may have a blue Gales Ferry library card or a cream Bill Library one, you are a patron of the Ledyard Libraries. We are just a little spread out to serve all of Ledyard.