The Arts Department consists of the Fine Arts, Architecture, Music, and Prints & Photographs. So what on earth have we been doing in the seven+ months the building has been closed? Here are a few things Arts staff members have been able to work on amidst quarantine and now, at the trial reopening of the…
Cataloging BPL Manuscripts From Home
Since March, a small team of BPL Special Collections Department staff have labored to make more of the library's manuscripts findable online.
Notes From A Lost Renaissance Library
The BPL recently purchased an annotated volume from the library of the Italian author and magistrate Giuliano Guizzelmi (1446-1518).¹ A minor, if interesting figure in the history of renaissance Italy, Guizzelmi is mostly remembered as a jurist, diary-keeper, and pious chronicler of miracles attributed to the shrines and holy relics of the Tuscan city of…
Missing Story Time? BPL does Livestream!
For many children's librarians, the highlight of our day is story time. You can't come to the library, so we are streaming story time live.
250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre: Highlights From Our Collections
March 5th, 2020, is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre. As one of the nation's premier repositories for materials documenting the history of colonial and revolutionary America, the BPL holds a trove of rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, and broadsides printed in direct response to the events of March 5th, 1770. The library also holds…
