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Pronunciator is a fun and free way to learn any of 80 languages with self-directed lessons, live teachers, movies, music, and more.

The Community History Project will ensure the stories and experiences of minority communities affected by the pandemic are not lost to time.

In keeping with the recession of the Omicron variant, we welcome back public programming and group use of our public meeting spaces.

As a colleague and as a highly-skilled researcher her presence made Otis Library a better, more responsive member of the community.

Eastern Connecticut libraries are responding to an unexpected source of social inequity - late book fines. The results are surprising.

Otis Library: New Book Buddies program a way to connect people By Bob Farwell As a state, we are making steady progress toward what will be defined as a new or near normal. The success of vaccination programs and social distancing bode well for our progress to an environment with few inhibitors in our daily lives. We have absorbed many lessons that will inform Otis Library’s future. An overarching lesson of the pandemic is the need for adaptability, the prescience to recognize opportunities ...

Providing safe, stable environment for patrons who choose to visit By Bob Farwell As 2021 begins, this year more than most it seems we are viewing events “through a glass darkly” with an understandably imperfect sense of how what we witnessed in 2020 and adapted to will shape our future. Most of us have been wishing for a speedy return to the pre-COVID lifestyle, but realistically, we can expect substantial changes in what henceforth constitutes normal. For centers of community activity suc...