BOSTON, MA - June 30, 2025 - The Boston Public Library (BPL) celebrates Disability Pride Month with its Disabled, Not Unable booklist. Observed annually in July, Disability Pride Month honors and explores the influence and legacy of members of the disabled and neurodivergent community. The Disabled, Not Unable booklist, compiled by BPL staff from various locations, features 75 recent…
Boston Public Library Launches Planning Process to Return the ‘People’s Palace’ to the People
BOSTON, MA – June 26, 2025 – The Boston Public Library (BPL) today announced the launch of a comprehensive, five-year planning process for the renovation of the Central Library’s historic McKim building. The process, funded by a transformational $5.5 million gift made by an anonymous donor through the Boston Public Library Fund (BPLF), will bring…
Boston Public Library Receives National Grant to Expand Workforce Support for English-Language Learners
BOSTON, MA — June 10, 2025 — The Boston Public Library (BPL) has received a $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of the foundation’s Libraries as Pillars of Education and Democracy initiative. The grant, made through the Boston Public Library Fund, places the BPL among a select group of public libraries…
Boston Public Library Celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Month
BOSTON, MA - May 30, 2025 - To honor LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the Boston Public Library (BPL) is releasing its We Are Pride booklist, a booklist of recent titles about the diverse experience of the LGBTQ+ community. Observed annually in June, LGBTQ+ Pride Month honors and explores the influence and legacy of members of the LGBTQ+ community…
Boston Public Library Celebrates $1 Million Grant from LEGO Group
BOSTON, MA — May 19, 2025 — The Boston Public Library (BPL) and the LEGO Group have launched a new partnership setting in motion a citywide initiative that leverages play to address urgent early literacy challenges and ignite creativity and agency in Boston’s youth. Funded through a $1 million grant from the company's LEGO Community…
Mayor Wu, Community Celebrate Groundbreaking of $30.9 Million New Fields Corner Branch
BOSTON, MA – Monday, May 6, 2025 - Mayor Michelle Wu yesterday joined Boston Public Library (BPL) officials and Fields Corner community members to highlight the start of construction of the new Fields Corner Branch. The $30.9 million construction project will create a new two-story building with improved accessibility, expanded community space, and advanced energy…
Boston Public Library Celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
BOSTON, MA – April 30, 2025 - To honor Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the Boston Public Library (BPL) is releasing its Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month booklist, a booklist of recent titles commemorating the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience and highlighting these cultures' representation in print. Celebrated annually…
Boston Public Library Announces New Chef-in-Residence at Nutrition Lab
The Chef-in-Residence provides cooking programs and nutritional literacy to the Greater Boston community.
Boston Public Library Announces 2025 Lowell Lecture Series
BOSTON, MA – April 24, 2025 – The Boston Public Library is proud to announce the 2025 Lowell Lecture Series, highlighting artists and changemakers whose work exemplifies this year’s theme of Revolutionary Art: Art and Social Change. Through performance, design, activism, and storytelling, these four speakers challenge conventions and use their creative platforms to inspire…
Boston Public Library Announces Major Donation of Yousuf Karsh Photographs
BOSTON, MA – April 10, 2025 – The Boston Public Library (BPL) is honored to announce the donation of 47 photographs by renowned Armenian photographer and portrait artist Yousuf Karsh. Made possible by the generous support of the Associates of the Boston Public Library, this gift was donated by his late wife Estrellita Karsh in…
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