Gloria Frederick emerges from the Sophie May Library on Thursday. The library has reopened after about year’s long renovation. There will be an open house on Saturday.

Sallie Wilder carries a box in to the Sophie May Library on Thursday. The library has reopened after about year’s long renovation. There will be an open house on Saturday.

Sallie Wilder carries a box into the Sophie May Library on Thursday. The library has reopened after about year’s long renovation. There will be an open house on Saturday.

Sallie Wilder, center, chairwoman of the Norridgewock Library Board of Trustees, and Gloria Frederick, vice-chairwoman, stand in the front room of the newly renovated Sophie May Library on Thursday.

Rebecca Clarke, a children’s author who wrote under the pen name Sophie May, donated the building that now houses the Sophie May Library in Norridgewock.

Gloria Frederick, vice chairwoman of the Norridgewock Library Board of Trustees, tours the newly renovated Sophie May Library Thursday.

Sallie Wilder, chairwoman of the Norridgewock Library Board of Trustees, center, and Gloria Frederick, vice chairwoman, right, tour the newly renovated Sophie May Library on Thursday.

Sallie Wilder, center, and Gloria Frederick, right, tour the newly renovated Sophie May Library, part of the Norridgewock Public Library, on Thursday.

Sallie Wilder, chairwoman of the Norridgewock Library Board of Trustees, browses the collection of Civil War correspondence books at the Sophie May Library on Thursday.