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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a global and multilingual web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists as a wiki, a type of website that allows visitors to edit its content. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by anyone with access to a computer and an internet connection. Fascinating! Check it out!

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Featured Artist for May & June
Penny Vestner

The Freedom Library is pleased to have a large collection of photographs by Penny Vestner on display through June. Penny has been coming to Freedom since 1965 and now lives in Portsmouth, NH. She graduated from Smith College in 1959, majoring in Art History and worked at the Toledo Museum of Art, the Boston MFA and the Guggenheim in NYC for the next ten years. She ran the Rye Art Center in Rye, NY and started its Photography Center with Lou Garbus. She graduated from the Radcliffe Institute Landscape Design Seminars in 1993 and started her own business "Unique Gardens" out of Freedom.

She writes: Photography is fun! It is also a challenge, a tool for recording history, nature and art. It can be creative, a question of seeing and luck! It is one thing seeing a vision you want to capture and actually getting it. I have spent all winter trying to photograph "Five ducks in a row" in my little Mill Pond and have had absolutely no luck. Requires patience, timing, a warm coat and a good camera doesn't hurt. Hope you enjoy my show. I have had fun putting it together.

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Ancestry Library Edition now available
and also Heritage Quest!


We used some of the money donated to the library in memory of Bill Fritz to purchase a year's subscription to the Ancestry Library Edition database. This is a valuable resource for those interested in genealogy. Available for In-Library Use only. We have also purchased a year's subscription to another genealogy database, Heritage Quest. Freedom Library patrons may access this database from home with a special user name and password - see the library for these.

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MUSEUM PASSES - Free Admission!
New this year: Passes to the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth!
Borrow the library's passes to the following museums and attractions:

• Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth
  
• The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (open year round)
  
• Squam Lakes Natural Science Center (closed for the season, opens May 1)
  
• The Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm (open year round)
  
• Wright Museum of WWII History (closed for the season, opens May 1)
  
• 19th Century Willowbrook Village (purchased by Freedom Historical Society and administered by the library) (closed for the season, reopens Memorial Weekend)
  

Click here to go to our Museum Passes page for more information on these attractions and how to borrow our passes.

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The library has subscribed to Career Cruising, an online career planning, job searching, career matching and learning styles reference database. It includes school comparisons and financial aid selectors. Click here for a one-page summary of the database features or click the Career Cruising logo above to start using it right away!

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Search the Library's Catalog From Home
We are happy to say that the library's catalog can now be searched from any computer with an internet connection!  Patrons can also see what they have checked out and the due dates, renew items and place a hold on materials.  Click on Search Library Catalog to begin! Note: Unfortunately our circulation software does not allow patrons to renew materials that are already overdue. If you want to renew overdues, please call the library.

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Let's Go Surfing!

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