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About Westerly Library & Wilcox Park

Westerly Library and Wilcox Park is a private non-profit owned and operated by the Memorial and Library Association. The Association was established in 1892 to commemorate the volunteer soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War.

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Westerly Sun Column | Explore Your Passions and Hobbies at the Library

Mar 31, 2026

What is your passion? What are your hobbies?

Find Your Joy This April

Mar 27, 2026

Celebrate National Library Week April 19-25, 2026 with the theme "Find Your Joy", all month long! 

Westerly Sun Column | At Westerly Library & Wilcox Park: A Wealth of Material on Travel Awaits at the Library

Mar 24, 2026

It was a long winter, and I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to deny my kids’ requests to have picnics during frigid windstorms and go for walks through feet of snow and ice.

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#staffpicks

Book Cover:Ina Garten's Be Ready When the Luck Happens Book Cover, Ina sitting at a wooden table with a blue coffee mug
Book Cover:Fredrik Backman My Friends book cover, three teens swimming in a pool
Book Cover:Sandwiches! book cover, a cartoon sandwich on a blue background
Book Cover:atmosphere book cover, a woman in sunglasses looking up to a blue sky
Book Cover:a person in a dark cloak hovering over a girl with a golden cloak
Book Cover:cartoon animals looking towards a rising moon
Book Cover:shadowed soldiers during battle
Book Cover:the lord of the rings the fellowship of the rings in text on a yellow books cover
Book Cover:beige book cover with brocken chains reading Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: a novel by bob the drag queen
Book Cover:I see you've called in dead written in newspaper cutouts on a navy blue background
Book Cover:stitched, a Frankenstein girl sits on a tombstone on a red background
Book Cover:a brown-haired girl with a phone covering her eyes in a crown of blonde women
Book Cover:a shadowed man walking in a crowded street
Book Cover:an overhead city view book cover with the yellow title "evenings and weekends"
Book Cover:a cartoon white alpaca on a bright blue background

Databases

A to Z Database
Academic Search Elite
America’s News
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Ancestry Library
Auto Repair Source: DIY Auto Repair
Biography Reference Center
Comics Plus
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Reports
Directory of Open Access Journals
DMV Practice Test-Rhode Island
EmployRI
ERIC
Explora
Federal Depository Library Program: Basic Collection
Flipster
GCF Learn Free
GreenFILE
History Reference Center
hoopla
Kanopy
Khan Academy
Learning Express
Life in Colonial America
LISTA
Literary Reference Center
Mango Languages
MasterFILE Premier: Popular Magazines
Medline Plus
New York Times (All Access)
New York Times (Library Access)
NoveList Plus
Points of View
Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries
The Providence Journal Collection: 1981 to Current
The Westerly Sun
TOPICsearch
Tutor.com
Udemy
United States Code
Volcano World
World Book

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Teen Book Club

APR 01, 2026/04:00 PM–05:00 PM

Drop in to join our Teen Book Club to chat about what you are currently reading!

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Tween D&D Group 3

APR 01, 2026/04:30 PM–06:00 PM

Join one of our Dungeons and Dragons groups run by our Tween librarian and volunteer!

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Sewing Basics

APR 01, 2026/06:00 PM–06:30 PM

Stop by the Makerspace to learn how to sew and more!

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