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Tuesday 11am - 5pm Wednesday 11am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 5pm Friday 11am - 5pm Saturday 9am - 2pm

Chelsea Public Library

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A bright & welcoming public library in a beautiful shire town.

Holiday Closures:
New Year's Eve & Day
Memorial Day
Juneteenth
July 4th & Observed
Chelsea Flea Market Day (Book Sale)
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day & Day After
Christmas Eve & Day

10/30/2026

Halloween evening, 4-8pm (while supply of books last!) in the Chelsea Village! The library will be open and will host a book giveaway for kids of all ages. Come in, grab some candy, pick out a new book for you to keep and take a picture with your new book and commemorate this year’s costume.

The event is the kick-off for our library in celebration of the First Branch Reads Project . A three-year collaborative literacy initiative serving children in Chelsea and Tunbridge, the project is funded by the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF), and brings local partners together to provide children and families with free, brand-new books; fun and interactive events; and ongoing opportunities to build and sustain a lasting culture of literacy in the community.

10/16/2026

So excited to kick off our part in this partnership with a Book Giveaway on Halloween Night!

10/13/2026

We got the sweetest note from a stranger today. I'm always delighted when we get mail that isn't yet another library furniture catalog. After noticing the bottom the number #14,353 I googled Ellen Webster and it turns out she writes quite a lot of thank you cards as a gratitude practice that began when she and her family were going through a hard time. Story here https://www.today.com/life/inspiration/woman-writes-10000-thank-you-notes-ellen-webster-rcna211911

08/26/2026

What a treat of a visitor! Here stands beloved former Chelsea Public Library Children’s Librarian Toni Gildone, holding the Chili Bake-off trophy that has been mystifying me from its perch on a high shelf for years.

08/19/2026

Lukas and Mike visited the library from Vienna, Austria today! Lukas was taking a walk down the memory lane of our bookshelves as he lived in Chelsea 18 years ago while on exchange as a student at the Chelsea High School. Mike, his father, is in the middle of a years long effort to sail around the world and the father/son pair took a jaunt on land to see Chelsea after all these years.

08/07/2026

The library has a new page for easily accessing eBooks and audiobooks when not using the app on your phone or tablet. Simply use the same login as you do for the Palace Project app. Not on Palace Project but love eBooks and Audiobooks?! Contact the library for help getting access to this FREE resource today!

https://catalog.thepalaceproject.org/VT0036

08/05/2026

I love novelist Naomi Alderman's idea of a Couch to 5k for Reading. https://naomialderman.substack.com/p/lets-do-a-couch-to-5k-for-reading where she presents small goals every day, every week to get you back on track to reading, daily, off a screen (kindle like things are ok :)). You can subscribe to her substack FREE and follow along for daily prompts that suit your goals and lifestyles......and then don't forget to come to the library to get a fresh stack of books

we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.

07/29/2026

It's not everyday we get visitors from out of town and certainly not everyday we get a local Vermont celebrity in the library. A delight to welcome Joel Najman of VPR's My Place and his wife Betsey Lawrence into the library.

07/28/2026

The Booker Prize Long list is out and a HUGE congratulations to local author Makenna Goodman for her book "Helen of Nowhere" nominated for the prestigious prize. Come into the library to read this title and several others that made the list!

Also among the 13 works up for the British literary award are the latest books from Douglas Stuart, Gwendoline Riley and Emma Cline.

06/30/2026

Thank you to all the kids who have joined our summer reading program so far this year! If you need a copy of the bingo sheet come by the library! Its never to late to join our summer reading ! Prizes for rows completed given out at the end of the summer!

Address

296 VT Route 110
Chelsea, VT
05038

Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm

Telephone

(802) 685-2188

Website

http://www.chelsealibrary.com/

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