Gaylord Memorial Library
South Hadley, MA 01075

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Resources

If you or somebody you know would like information about materials for the visually impaired, please call the library (538-5047) for details about Perkins Institute's services or visit http://www.perkins.org/.
Useful Links

South Hadley Reads: the town-wide reading program.

South Hadley's Official Website: information about the town of South Hadley, MA.

Directory of the Web provided by Springfield Public Library.

Suggested Websites from the South Hadley Public Library.

Librarian's Index to the Internet: directory of librarian-reviewed websites.

South Hadley Historical Society: contains contact information for the South Hadley Historical Society

Know Your Town offers an opportunity to meet neighbors and make new friends, to learn more about the town, and to share in supporting our community and its citizens.

Online Databases

Your library card gives you access to three databases through which you can find journal, magazine and newspaper articles, encyclopedia information, and ebooks:

  • Newsbank- offers selected full text of Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Springfield Republican, and Worcester Telegram-Gazette

  • InfoTrac- academic and all-purpose databases Expanded Academic and General Reference Center as well as two health databases, three business databases, and several databases for students and teachers

  • netLibrary- provider of electronic books which can be "checked out" and read online

Go to databases!

Go to Springfield Republican and Cape Cod Times!

Go to other newspapers!

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary loan requests may be made in person or by email. Materials are due back by the date stamped on the item.

NEW: Amazon Kindle E-Reader

Gaylord Memorial Library has received a very generous donation of a Kindle E-Reader. 

This new technology will allow eligible patrons to check out the Kindle and read the digital books that Gaylord Memorial Library has to offer.  The Kindle books list will be regularly updated on this web page below the Kindle Borrowing Agreement, and a paper copy of available books will be available at the main desk. 

To read through the Kindle lending agreement , please see below.

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Available Kindle E-Book List

Please feel free to suggest titles of general interest (which the library does not own in book form) for purchase consideration.

Updated: 12th August 2011

10th Anniversary, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

An Old-Fashioned Girl, Louisa May Alcott

Decision Points, George W. Bush

Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life, Judith Orloff

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know, Hamilton Wright Mabie

Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz

Middlemarch, George Eliot

Open City: A Novel, Teju Cole

Shatter (The Children of Man), Elizabeth Mock

She Walks in Beauty, Siri Mitchell

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Heidi W. Durrow

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells

The New World (A Short Story), Patrick Ness

The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Beatrix Potter

The Terror of Living: A Novel, Urban Waite

The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, Mark Twain

The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco

Water's Redemption, Pamela Hannah

Whirl of the Wheel, Catherine Condie

Whisper on the Wind, Maureen Lang

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47 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075   Christine Quigley, Director    413-538-5047    shgaylord@comcast.net