The Dorset Village Library offers many services for adults.

Fiction & Large Print – The Dorset Library provides a wide selection of current fiction in both regular and large print formats. Also available are audio books on cassettes and CDs. The fiction collection consists of more than 1,000 titles. Each month two or three books by new authors are purchased. If a book has a clear red spine label, you can be sure that it is the author’s first novel and that it has been highly recommended. Other clear labels help you locate the genre of book you prefer – yellow indicates historical fiction, light blue indicates LARGE PRINT, dark green points out mystery books, while orange specifies science fiction and fantasy.

Nonfiction – The library has a small but up-to-date non-fiction collection. Some nonfiction books are added to the collection each month on topics of current interest. In addition, each month we focus on a particular topic to update. Recent highlighted topics include autism, Islam, and the environment and global warming.

Audio Books – Current Fiction & Current Non-fiction
These may be borrowed for a two week period. The Library purchases unabridged editions of audio books whenever possible. If you damage or lose a tape or CD, you need to replace the audio book.

The Dorset Library is proud to be a member of Listen Up! Vermont so that Dorset residents may download audio books to their computers and then onto a portable audio device. To access Listen Up, Vermont, click on this link: http://www.listenupvermont.org.

Very recently, the Dorset Library has joined Recorded Books One-Click which offers over 2,000 audio books with no holds. To access this site, go to http://gmlc.wordpress.com/recorded-books/.

Magazines – The Library subscribes to more than 75 magazines which may be borrowed for a week. ILL – If there is a book that we do not have, most adult books are available somewhere else in Vermont. You can find out if a book is available by going to Inter-Library Loan. While we do not charge for this service; it costs about $6 per book for mailing the book to our library and returning it which the Library must underwrite.

Multimedia - Includes the audio book collection, music CDs, and the DVD collection.

Music CDs – The Music CD collection of over 300 CDs have all been donated to the library. These may be borrowed for two weeks. If you would like to donate music CDs, we would be delighted to enlarge our collection.

DVDs – The Dorset Library owns over 800 DVDs with all rating categories NR, G, PG, Pg-13 and R. R ratings are indicated by a red marker on each DVD case. These may be borrowed for 1 week. A $2.00 per night fine is charged for overdue DVDs, including holidays and weekends.

Internet Access – Provided to our patrons courtesy of Comcast.net.
Patrons should ask before using any of the library's computers and then sign up at the front desk. Before using the Library's computers, patrons must read our Internet policy. Patrons may sign up to use the computers for a half hour once a day.

Young Adult Fiction - Teens will find a wide selection of fiction on the first floor of the library including many audio books.

The Library also has a selection of paperbacks and puzzles.