Periodicals

The Patten Free Library have periodicals available to read in the library or borrow for 3 weeks at a time. Some digital copies of our periodicals are available on our Flipster here.

Click here to sponsor a periodical. For more information about Periodical Sponsorship, please contact our Development Director, Samantha Ricker, at slricker@patten.lib.me.us or 443-5141 ext 1019.

IN THE LIBRARY:

Antiques
Architectural Digest – Sponsored by Susan Shadwell-Dublin
Artists Magazine
Ask
Atlantic – Sponsored by Elaine Erekson
Babybug – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Better Homes and Gardens – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Bon Appetit – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Booklist
Boston Globe
Car and Driver – Sponsored by Karl and Barbara Albrecht
Click
Cobblestone – Sponsored by Mike Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Consumer Reports – Sponsored by Michelle and Jamie Rines; and Ruth Lawson-Stopps
Cooks Illustrated – Sponsored by Elizabeth and Marty Lakeman
Country Living
Cricket – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Discover – Sponsored by Leah and Gary Zartarian
Down East – the Magazine of Maine – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Dwell Magazine – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Economist – US ed – Sponsored by John Zittel
Faces
Family Handyman – Sponsored by Caroline Hibbard
Fine Homebuilding – Sponsored by Peggy Kapisovsky and Mark Farrow
Fine Woodworking – Sponsored by Elizabeth and Marty Lakeman
Girls Life
Good Housekeeping – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
HGTV Magazine
Horn Book Magazine
Horticulture – Magazine of American Gardening – Sponsored by Michelle and Jamie Rines, and Sponsored by Mary Louise Blanchard; and Sponsored by Leah and Gary Zartarian
House Beautiful
Kiplingers Personal Finance
Ladybug – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Library Journal
MAD – Sponsored by Lesley Dolinger and Karen Jung
Mainebiz
Make : Technology on Your Time
Mens Health – PA
Mindful – Sponsored by Michelle and Jamie Rines
Mother Earth News
Mother Jones – Sponsored by Ruth Lawson-Stopps
Nation – NY
National Geographic – Sponsored by Allen and Barbara Gaul
National Geographic Kids – Sponsored by Vicki Tanko in honor of Harper & Ella
National Review
New Yorker – Sponsored by Roger and Sukey Heard
Old-House Journal
Paris Review
People
Popular Mechanics – Sponsored by Caroline Hibbard
Portland Monthly Magazine – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Prevention – PA – Sponsored by Leah and Gary Zartarian
Psychology Today – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Ranger Rick – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Ranger Rick Jr – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert
Real Simple – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Resurgence & Ecologist
Rolling Stone
School Library Journal
Scientific American – Sponsored by Al Fick
Spider
Sports Illustrated – Sponsored by Karl and Barbara Albrecht
The Sun – Chapel Hill NC – Sponsored by Leslie Trundy
The Week – Sponsored by Sally and Terry Gray
TIME Magazine
Vanity Fair – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Wall Street Journal
Woodenboat – Sponsored by James Peavey
Writers Digest – Sponsored by Michael Plaisted and Maggie Webbert

ONLINE

Conde Nast – Sponsored by Laurel Walsh and Justin Schuetz
Horticulture
Kiplinger
Atlantic Monthly – Sponsored by Mary Ellen Kazimer and Andy Barber
Food & Wine
Prevention
The New Yorker
National Geographic
Rolling Stone
The Sun
Wired
Real Simple

NEWSPAPERS

Portland Press Herald – Sponsored by Sally and Terry Gray, and Michelle and Jamie Rines
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Sunday Boston Globe

OTHER SUPPORT FROM

William T. Racine, Certified Public Accountant

Kathleen Perry

 

 

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