Every year, thousands of books come into the library from all corners of the world. (It takes a lot of fossil fuel to fill a library of over 750,000 books.) So, if you care about how far your food travels, now you can care how far your books travel too.
By sourcing new books for our Browsing Collection from a local Middlebury bookstore, we’re supporting Middlebury’s local economy and reducing the miles that these particular books travel.* Now that’s reading local.
You can find our newest books on the New Books shelves and on the Browsing books shelves, located behind the DVDs on the main floor of the Davis Library.
And by the way, our Browsing collection is made up of recently published and bestselling fiction and nonfiction, science fiction, fantasy, memoirs, and biographies. Now that’s reading to feel good about, for lots of reasons.
* An environmental footnote: typically, we would have bought our books from a sort of “library middleman” based in New England, a subsidiary of a global corporation with offices all over the world. We still rely on this company to supply many, many of our harder-to-find academic books. But for our Browsing collection, we turned to Middlebury’s Main Street instead. A much shorter trip and an investment in our community, to boot.