Ilsley Library


  • Letter to the editor: Thanks to all who made Ilsley move a success

    I just visited the Ilsley Public Library at its temporary new home in the Duclos Building for the first time. Kudos to the imaginative folks who created a…

  • Ilsley project will create temporary parking crunch

    Middlebury residents will have a bigger, better Ilsley Library to admire and use starting in the summer of 2026. But between now and then, folks will face a…

  • MCTV upgrades services before move

    When the Ilsley Public Library shuts down its services at 75 Main St. in Middlebury for 16 months of renovation and expansion work, the local public access channel…

  • Middlebury taps local option tax to plug library project shortfall

    The Middlebury selectboard has decided to dip into the community’s local option tax reserve fund to plug a $1.8 million revenue shortfall in the funding of $17 million…

  • Taxpayers could pay more for Ilsley update

    Taxpayers could pay more for Ilsley update

    Barring a surge in private donations and/or winning additional grants, Middlebury taxpayers could be asked to absorb a greater chunk of the $17 million Ilsley Library expansion-and-renovation project…

  • Firm picked to carry out Ilsley collection move

    The town of Middlebury will pay a Connecticut company almost $90,000 to move Ilsley Library’s 50,000-book collection to two separate storage locations, where they will stay — but…

  • College is investing $3.5M locally

    College is investing $3.5M locally

    Middlebury College has earmarked a combined $3.5 million toward the impending renovation/expansion of the Ilsley Public Library and construction of a major, mixed-income housing project at the northeast…

  • Robotics engineer offers talk at Ilsley

    Local Robotics Engineer Jaine Perotti will speak on “Underwater Robotics” on Tuesday, Nov. 19, as part of AAUW/Ilsley Library Speaker Series. The talk will be in the Ilsley’s…

  • Letter to the editor: Ilsley vital to area; project needs support

    Have you ever imagined our community without Ilsley Public Library? What would be lost without our library?

  • AAUW series to welcome Matt Dickinson

    As part of the local American Association of University Women’s speaker series, Middlebury College professor Matt Dickinson will speak on “Forecasting the 2024 Presidential Election: Who Will Win,…