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Amy Ryan Named President of the BPL
The Board of Trustees of the Boston Public Library today named Amy Ryan as the next President of the Boston Public Library. |
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First Time Out: Debut Novelists Tell Their Stories
Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 6:00 p.m.
Orientation Room, McKim Building, Copley Square
Join debut novelists Brunonia Barry (The Lace Reader), Amy MacKinnon (Tethered) and Matthew Quick (The Silver Linings Playbook) and hear about their paths to publication. The three writers will also read from their novels and answer audience questions. |
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All the World's a Page
July 1 through September 30
McKim Building 3rd Floor, Copley Square
The Boston Public Library, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Boston, presents All the World's a Page: 400 Years of Shakespeare in Print, an exhibit that asks the question: Where would the Bard be without his books? |
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American WWI Posters on Display
Through September 4
Wiggin Gallery, Copley Square
More than 50 American World War I posters from the BPL Print Department including posters of recruitment, patriotism, war bond promotions, the home front, and war relief organizations. |
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Movingline Exhibit on display
Through November 30
McKim Building, Copley Square
movingline, Drawings by Channing is a series of drawings now on display in the Popular Reading Room. |
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Exhibit Marks Archdiocese's 200th
Through Sept. 30, McKim Building
Cheverus Room and Chavannes Gallery
Materials from the collections of the archives of the Archdiocese of Boston and the research collection and archives of the Boston Public Library will be displayed. |
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Discover John Adams's Library Online
Visit the John Adams Library website to explore the personal library of 2nd President John Adams and learn more about his remarkable life and extensive 3,500-volume collection. |
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Take an online voyage through the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center's website - Chart your course from Journeys of the Imagination and Faces and Places to Birds Eye Views. |
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For more than 150 years, the Boston Public Library has pioneered public library service in America with revolutionary ideas and famous firsts. Established in 1848, the BPL was the first publicly supported municipal library in America, the first public library to lend a book, the first to have a branch library and the first to have a children’s room. Today, the BPL boasts 27 neighborhood branches, free Internet access, two unique restaurants, an award-winning website and an online store featuring reproductions of the BPL’s priceless photographs and artwork. Each year, the BPL hosts nearly 5000 programs, answers more than one million reference questions and serves millions of people in its National Historic Landmark McKim Building in Copley Square. All of its programs and exhibits are free and open to the public. At the Boston Public Library, books are just the beginning!
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