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2006

Holiday Gift Sale Features Items from BPL's Collections 11/27/06
Boston Public Library a Fitting Place to Learn About "Boston's Firsts"  6/12/06
Popular Historian Answers "What Would the Founders Do?" at Boston Public Library Talk 05/17/06
Anderson Cooper of CNN Will Discuss His Book On June 8 at Boston Public Library  5/1/06
Boston Public Library Celebrates Asian Pacific Heritage Month  5/1/06
Talk by Walter Mosley Will Complete BPL's Lowell Lecture Series 5/1/06
Author Will Reveal the Pilgrims' Secrets at Boston Public Library Talk 4/24/06
Biographer to Shed Light on Dolley Madison in Talk at Boston Public Library  4/24/06
Pulitzer Prize Winner Clarence Page will Discuss Today's Journalism at BPL  3/28/06
Boston Public Library Showcases Vast And Varied Joan of Arc Collection  3/7/06
Author Will Describe the Women Who Fought Slavery in Boston Public Library Talk  3/1/06
Boston Public Library Publishes 2006 Black Is ... Booklist  2/9/06
Karenna Gore Schiff Will Speak at Boston Public Library About New Book  1/23/06
Famed Crime Novelist Robert B. Parker Will Speak at Boston Public Library Feb. 22  1/23/06
Boston Public Library Delivers with New, High-Tech Newspaper Service  1/19/06
Authority on Abolitionists Speaks at Boston Public Library  1/17/06
Authors Will Argue North Was Complicit in Slavery at Boston Public Library Talk  1/3/06

2005

Mayor Menino Will Lead Celebration At The Boston Public Library's Parker Hill Branch  12/5/05
“Alexandre Benois” Exhibition At BPL Opens December 3  11/22/05
Boston Public Library To Host Three-Day ‘Baseball In December’ Event  11/18/05
BPL Awarded Prestigious Federal Grant To Supplement Service To Chinese  11/15/05
D. Brenton Simons Will Discuss Boston's Sordid Past In Talk At Boston Public Library  11/9/05
Disastrous Cocoanut Grove Fire Revisited in Panel Discussion at Boston Public Library  10/24/05
Bill Brett, Photographer Of Boston's Famous Faces, To Speak At Boston Public Library  10/6/05
Novelist Amy Tan Will Speak At Boston Public Library  10/6/05
Berklee, BPL, and The Boston Jazz Society Present a Jazz Series for Families  9/21/05
Parker Hill Branch of Boston Public Library to Re-open September 28  9/20/05
BPL and Celebrity Chef Ming Tsai Get Down to Some Serious Monkey Business  9/17/05
Boston United March Participants Will Re-Create Moment From Boston's History  9/10/05
Shared Legacies: The Founding Generations Tell their Stories  9/7/05
Join the Reading Revolution!  5/24/05
Boston Public Library Hosts Free Seminars on Asthma  4/25/05
Boston Public Library Exhibit Celebrates 400th Anniversary Of Don Quixote  3/29/05
Berklee Jazz Performers Offer Concert In Memory of BPL’s Jacquelyn Hogan  3/29/05
Boston Public Library Exhibit Features Advertising Trade Cards From 1875 TO 1900  3/28/05
Cokie Roberts Will Discuss Her Book on Founding Mothers at the Boston Public Library  2/22/05
Boston Public Library Enters Pilot Project: "Ask A Government Information Librarian"  2/22/05
Boston Public Library Exhibits Newly Acquired Photographic Portraits  2/19/05
Boston Public Library's Grove Hall Branch Remains Closed For Roof Project  2/15/05
Boston Public Library Hosts Free Seminars on Managing Prescription Drug Medications  2/1/05
Boston Public Library's Parker Hill Branch Expected To Re-open In March  1/25/05
Boston Public Library Exhibit Focuses On John Adams' Role In Defending British Troops  1/19/05
Boston Public Library Hosts Free Seminars on Medicare Drug Discount Card Program  1/8/05

2004

Grove Hall Branch to Close for Repairs   12/17/04
Ring in the New Year at the Boston Public Library  12/17/04
Holiday Gift Sale Based on the Collections of the Boston Public Library 11/22/04
Boston Public Library's Connolly Branch Reopens After 7-Month Renovation Project  10/29/04
Boston Public Library's Codman Square Branch Reopens After Renovations   10/22/04
Noted Historian Kicks Off Lecture Series on John Adams at Boston Public Library  10/19/04
Boston Public Library Celebrates Restored Masterpiece with 'Sargent Month at the BPL  10/5/04
Boston Public Library's Lower Mills Branch to Close for Repairs  9/22/04
Boston Public Library and Boston Red Sox Celebrate the History of Fenway Park  9/17/04
Work Nears Completion at Boston Public Library's Connolly Branch  9/17/04
Mayor Menino Accepts Gift to Boston Public Library from the Boston Red Sox Foundation  8/31/04
Meeting Will Address Construction at Boston Public Library's Parker Hill Branch  8/24/04
Boston Public Library Celebrates the Life of Isaac Bashevis Singer   8/20/04
Codman Square Branch to Close for Repairs   8/9/04
Preparations Underway to Re-open the Boston Public Library's Connolly Branch   8/5/04
Boston's Rich Political History on Display in Vintage Boston Public Library Photographs  7/19/04
Cale Kenney Reads From From Have Crutch Will Travel   7/13/04
The Boston Public Library's Johnson Building Gets Faced in Freedom   7/12/04
Boston's Rich Political History on Display in Vintage Boston Public Library Photographs  7/2/04
Boston Public Library's Egleston Square Branch will Reopen for Service July 6  6/28/04
Boston Public Library's Exhibit of Rare Maps to Close May 28  5/24/04
BPL's South Boston Branch Closed For Construction May 25-June 7  5/21/04
Boston Public Library Curtails Sunday Hours Until October  5/18/04
Free Family Fun at the Ducklings Day Parade From the Boston Public Library  4/30/04
BPL's Egleston Square Branch Closed For Repairs  4/20/04
Boston Public Library To Celebrate the Life of Artist William Steig, 1907-2003  4/7/04
BPL's Connolly Branch Closed For Repair  3/31/04
Jeffrey Rudman Named Trustee of the Boston Public Library  3/29/04
BPL's Connolly Branch To Close For Next Phase of Construction Project  3/15/04
Mayor Menino Thanks The Cooperative Bank for New Book Drop at Roslindale Branch  2/19/04
BPL's Brighton Branch will be Back in Service February 25  2/13/04
Deirdre Brennan Named Chief of Public Services at the BPL  2/9/04
Renovations to Begin at Boston Public Library's South Boston Branch  2/5/04
6 Boston Public Library Joins Team in Commemorating Hub's Great Sports Venues 1/26/04
Boston Public Library Publishes Latino Life Booklist  1/12/04
Boston Public Library's Connolly Branch to Close for Roof Replacement   1/30/04
Strange, Deadly Disaster is Focus of Boston Public Library Exhibit  1/7/04

2003
Boston Public Library's Brighton branch to Close for Repairs   December 17, 2003
Mayor Menino Announces Football Ticket Contest for Teens at the Boston Public Library   November 5, 2003
Holiday Shopping at the Boston Public Library   November 4, 2003
The Red Sox Have History on Their Side Thanks to Boston Public Library Exhibits   October 11, 2003
BPL's Online Store Opens New Entertainment Gallery   September 5, 2003
Boston Public Library Makes It to "The Show"   August 19, 2003
Mayor Menino Celebrates 50th Birthday of BPL's Egleston Square Branch   July 16, 2003
Late Charges Increase at Boston Public Library   July 1, 2003
BPL Pays Tribute to Make Way For Ducklings Author with Exhibit   July 1, 2003
BPL to Offer Food for Fines Amnesty Program Before Late Charges Increase   June 16, 2003
BPL's Online Store Lets You Own a Piece of Boston History   June 5, 2003
BPL to Offer Restaurants and Catering Operated by Sebastians   April 29, 2003
Heavy Metal Concert Kicks Off Xtreme Teen Summer at BPL   April 28, 2003
Free Family Fun at the Ducklings Day Parade from the BPL   April 22, 2003
BPL's Online Gallery Celebrating 1903 World Series Win Opens on Opening Day   April 10, 2003
Boston Public Library Will Close Copley Square Branch on Sundays   March 28, 2003
Boston Public Library Trustees Name Honan-Allston Branch   March 13, 2003
Boston Public Library and Village Books Host Author Series   February 13, 2003
Beyond the Acropolis at the Boston Public Library   January 10, 2003
Chase Away the Chill at the Boston Public Library   January 6, 2003

2002
Ring in the New Year at the Boston Public Library   December 20, 2002
Vacation Week Fun at the Boston Public Library   December 13, 2002
Final Chance for Teenagers to Win Free Football Tickets at the BPL   December 5, 2002
BPL's "Red Curls and Weak Ankles" Highlights MacLaine's Early Movies   November 7, 2002
Teens Can Win Free Football Tickets at the BPL   October 25, 2002
Teens Can Win Free Football Tickets at the BPL   October 10, 2002
Boston Public Library Hosts Sacco & Vanzetti: Beyond the Courtroom   October 3, 2002
Mayor Thomas Menino Unveils Portrait of BPL's $6.8 Million Donor   September 30, 2002
New York Times Columnist at the Boston Public Library   September 26, 2002
Summer in P'town Lingers at the Boston Public Library   September 25, 2002
Allan Rohan Crite Exhibit at the BPL's South End Gallery   September 24, 2002
Teens Can Win Free Football Tickets at BPL   September 19, 2002
Mayor Menino Announces Football Ticket Contest at BPL   September 9, 2002
Composer Victor Young Remembered with BPL Film Series   August 27, 2002
BPL Decorates in Copper   August 24, 2002
BPL Recognizes 75th Anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti August 16, 2002
Mayor Menino Invites All to Ted Williams Memorial Exhibit at the BPL   July 12, 2002
Globe Spotlight Team Presents Catholic Church Scandal Book at the BPL   July 22, 2002
Mayor Menino Brings BPL's Rare Pledge of Allegiance to Kids' "Star-Spangled Summer" Reading Program   June 28, 2002
Mayor Menino Accepts Architecture Award for BPL Restoration Project   June 10, 2002
Swing Into Summer at the BPL's Allston-Brighton Branches   May 28, 2002
Workshops for Home Owners at the BPL   May 21, 2002
BPL Film Series Celebrates Best Work from Ibero Countries   May 13, 2002
The Ducklings Day Parade is Free for Kids Who Visit the BPL   May 7, 2002
BPL Welcomes Actor and Activist Edward James Olmos   April 22, 2002
Rare Book Donated to BPL April 17, 2002
BPL to Offer New Computer Printing Services at Every Branch   April 8, 2002
School Vacation Week Packed with Activities at the BPL   April 1, 2002
Watercolors Illuminate Spring at the BPL's South End Gallery   March 29, 2002
April is National Poetry Month and the BPL is Celebrating   March 25, 2002
BPL Film Series Showcases Errol Flynn's Most Adventurous Roles   March 11, 2002
A Wee Bit of Irish Heritage at the BPL   February 20, 2002
Fellowship Announced at the BPL   February 13, 2002
Renowned Authors Share Their Work at the BPL   February 5, 2002
Creative Writing Workshops Given by Local Authors at the BPL   January 31, 2002
Life-Sized "Faces of Ground Zero" Portraits on Exhibit at the BPL   January 28, 2002
Sculptures Tell an Artist's Story at the BPL's South End Gallery   January 24, 2002
Deadline Nears for Contest & Chance to Be Mayor for a Day   January 23, 2002
BPL Programs Focus on Learning and Healing after September 11th   January 17, 2002
Art Workshops for Kids at the Boston Public Library   January 14, 2002
Mayor Menino Announces Kids' Contest   January 5, 2002
BPL Rings in New Year with New Books by Renowned Authors   January 3, 2002

2001
Marlene Dietrich Remembered in Films and Photographs at BPL   December 26, 2001
Schedule Set for Holidays at the Boston Public Library   December 17, 2001
First Night 2002 at the BPL, Nation's First Public Library   December 13, 2001
Authors Respond to American Tragedy at the BPL   November 28, 2001
Mayor Menino Unveils Improvements to Uphams Corner Branch of BPL  November 10, 2001
Conquer Your Fear of Flying at the BPL   November 1, 2001
BPL Exhibits Reveal Photographer's Eye   November 1, 2001
Authors and Readings and Books, Oh My!   October 31, 2001
Movie Star Princess Remembered in Film Series at BPL   October 29, 2001
Argentina & Brazil are Focus of BPL Photo Exhibit   October 23, 2001
Something for Everyone this Wednesday at the BPL   October 12, 2001
Muslim Culture and Islamic Faith Explained in BPL Exhibit   October 4, 2001
BPL Celebrates Book-toberfest   October 3, 2001
BPL Focuses on Fashion in October   September 28, 2001
Political Poet Martin Espada Reads at the BPL   September 21, 2001
Mayor Menino Celebrates 50th Birthday of BPL's Adams Street Branch  September 15, 2001
Boxes of Dreams at the BPL's South End Gallery   September 10, 2001
Kids and Teens Make Most of Summer at the BPL   September 5, 2001
BPL Film Series Features Pink Panther Movies   August 27, 2001
Celebration of Latino Life Starts with Americanos Exhibit at the BPL   August 27, 2001
Read Your Way to Fenway a Big Hit with Kids at the BPL   August 18, 2001
Works of Renowned Photojournalist on Exhibit at the BPL   August 13, 2001
BPL Exhibits Postcards from the Past   July 23, 2001
Summer Fun for Kids is Just Around the Corner at the BPL   July 20, 2001
A Different Kind of Walking Tour Starts at the BPL   July 13, 2001
BPL's South End Gallery Shows Color in Motion   July 12, 2001
Kids Can Discover Science at the BPL   July 2, 2001
Deaf African American Woman Shares Her Story at the BPL   June 21, 2001
Mayor Menino Launches BPL's New Web Site   June 21, 2001
Mayor Thomas Menino Cuts Ribbon for New $8 Million Allston Library   June 16, 2001
Summer Blockbuster Exhibits at the BPL   June 7, 2001
Rap About Reading and Win $100 in BPL Contest for Teens   May 29, 2001
Cityscapes on Display at the BPL's South End Gallery   May 29, 2001
An E-Twist on Summer Reading at the BPL   May 25, 2001
Award-Winning Films Featured in BPL's Iberoamerican Festival   May 16, 2001
MLA Awards Top Honors to the BPL   May 1, 2001
BPL Installs Security System    April 27, 2001
BPL Hosts Premiere Party for High-Tech Event Boards   April 19, 2001
Art Crosses Cultures at BPL's South End Gallery   April 10, 2001
BPL Film Series Pays Tribute to Audrey Hepburn   March 28, 2001


2000
BPL Receives $6.8 Million from Individual Donor   December 7, 2000
Mayor Menino Re-Opens Historic Courtyard at the BPL   November 15, 2000

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