“I HAVE ALWAYS IMAGINED THAT PARADISE WILL BE A KIND OF LIBRARY.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
Welcome the to the LA Library!
Our mission is to empower LA community members to be passionate readers, curious researchers and ethical consumers and creators of information.
The new North Star YA Award list is here and we’ve got all the books in the library! Read three and you get to vote in the spring for Maine’s teen choice book award.
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Contact Information
phelps@lincolnacademy.org
Laura Phelps joins LA after 15 years as an elementary librarian in RSU1. Prior to that she was a public librarian in Vermont and a high school teacher in Romania. Laura is a National Board Certified Teacher and the 2019 Walter J. Taranko Maine School Librarian of the Year. She practices yoga daily, loves the Red Sox and travels near and far as frequently as possible. Laura lives in Wiscasset with her husband Iain and their two cats, Benny and Beatrix.
Academic Affiliations:
B.A. History, Haverford College
M.S. Library and Information Science, Simmons University
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