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If you have a research request, or if you would like to make an appointment, please contact the library at to discuss arrangements.

The Library has over 5,000 books as well as magazines, newspapers, maps, a photograph collection of over 3,000 items, microfiches, and subject files. The Archives also contain artifacts related to the history of the Town of Amherst and the lives of early settlers.

The Library contains a full set of the Amherst Bee , from 1879 to the present day, on microfilm. A microfilm printer may be used to make copies of the Bee , at a cost of 25 cents per page. Available for on-site research use is the Index to Obituaries in the Amherst Bee and Index to Marriage Notices in the Amherst Bee , produced by library volunteers.