For National Library Week 2022 the Boston Public Library Fund commissioned the incredible Alondra Bobadilla, Boston’s first ever Youth Poet Laureate, to write and perform a poem about the Boston Public Library.
Program funded through the Lynch Foundation is now available at Adams Street, Roslindale, and Roxbury branches.
The Boston Public Library (BPL) announced it has received $2.1 million in private funding to revitalize the library’s Founding Research Collection. Two gifts are making this work possible: a contribution to the Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library is pleased to announce the creation of an expansive new booklet celebrating the art, architecture, and built heritage of the Central Library in Copley Square. Visitors near and far are invited
This year, the Boston Public Library’s annual Concerts in the Courtyard series is still on, streaming live! Enjoy the best music from anywhere now through the end of August.
The BPL’s Anti-Slavery Collection—one of the largest and most important repositories of abolitionist material in the United States—contains approximately 40,000 pieces of correspondence, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and memorabilia from the 1830s through the 1870s.
The BPL’s Rare Books and Manuscript department is home to more than 250,000 books. A major renovation is underway, supported in part by the BPLF.
For National Library Week 2022 the Boston Public Library Fund commissioned the incredible Alondra Bobadilla, Boston’s first ever Youth Poet Laureate, to write and perform a poem about the Boston Public Library.
Program funded through the Lynch Foundation is now available at Adams Street, Roslindale, and Roxbury branches.
The Boston Public Library (BPL) announced it has received $2.1 million in private funding to revitalize the library’s Founding Research Collection. Two gifts are making this work possible: a contribution to the Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library is pleased to announce the creation of an expansive new booklet celebrating the art, architecture, and built heritage of the Central Library in Copley Square. Visitors near and far are invited
This year, the Boston Public Library’s annual Concerts in the Courtyard series is still on, streaming live! Enjoy the best music from anywhere now through the end of August.
The BPL’s Anti-Slavery Collection—one of the largest and most important repositories of abolitionist material in the United States—contains approximately 40,000 pieces of correspondence, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and memorabilia from the 1830s through the 1870s.
The BPL’s Rare Books and Manuscript department is home to more than 250,000 books. A major renovation is underway, supported in part by the BPLF.
What is your connection to the environment? The Leventhal Map and Education Center’s (@bplmaps) newest exhibit, “More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape,” welcomes you reflect on local environmental injustices through maps as well as photographs, images, and data...
May 12
The amazing @bplboston Librarians invite you to enjoy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and Haitian Heritage Month through books for all ages! You can check out their recommendations at your local branch or visit bpl.org.
#AsianAmericanHeritageMonth #HaitianHeritageMonth
May 10
Don’t miss @bplboston's incredible online lecture series on John Singer Sargent’s "Triumph of Religion" murals at the Central Library. BPL’s Curator of Interpretation, Meghan Weeks, brings together leading experts to deliver five very special lectures beginning May 9. Learn more...
May 5
This morning, the Newsfeed Café was filled with partners and friends committed to workforce development, small-business innovation, youth engagement, and more. Thank you to Eastern Bank’s Bob Rivers, Bain Capital’s Greg Shell, and the BPL’s David Leonard for an important conversation on how ...
May 3
Life is good here at @bplboston on Monday, May 2!
@lifeisgoodco Co-Founder John Jacobs, in conversation with BPL President David Leonard, will share how a Boston-based family business grew into a $150 million-dollar lifestyle brand that changes lives through its charitable foundation and ...
Apr 30
The Eastern Bank Foundation recently made a generous grant to enhance the @bplboston's cost-free English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) programming. The grant expands classes from 12 branches to all locations, provides funding to hire an additional Literacy Instructor, and develops ...
Apr 28
Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940). Boston park guide, 1895, Trolley trips on a Bay State Triangle, 1897, and The July century, 1895. Boston Public Library, Arts Department.
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Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940) was an American painter and printmaker. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Woodbury ...
Apr 22
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