We are delighted to announce a new digital collection of rare shoe industry books, available on Internet Archive! The collection is a sample of our shoe industry materials and includes a variety of early shoemaking publications, such as lasting manuals, a treatise on uncommon foot shapes, a shoe manufacturing machinery guide, and a retailer catalog. […]
Recent changes in my personal schedule gifted me a fresh start – an opportunity to get back into the habit of cooking regularly! I am really enjoying this change and hope to keep things interesting by trying a variety of recipes, but also need to keep it simple and quick. As with many people, I […]
We are happy to announce the addition of Bradford College photographs to the Senter Digital Archive! As part of an ongoing project to make our archival collections discoverable, we have been working on our largest one, the Bradford College Collection. The materials in this collection were transferred to the Haverhill Public Library following the closure […]
Barbara Kingsolver employs her exceptional talent for character development and world-building for the eponymous Damon “Demon Copperhead” Fields, set in Appalachia from the 1990s to today, in her retelling of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield. For readers of the Dickens tale, it is fun exercise to compare the new and the old versions of the classic […]
Over the past year, the Special Collections Department has been working to get even more of our digitized images online in the Senter Digital Archive. We are happy to announce that we are now able to continuing adding images at a decent pace! In the latest batch of images, there are many images of the […]
The Special Collections Department is celebrating Preservation Week 2024! From April 28 to May 4, libraries, museums, and all kinds of cultural heritage organizations focus on preservation training, practice, and outreach. Why is preservation so important? It’s what makes our collections last as long as possible, so that we can provide access to them now and in […]
We are pleased to announce that Special Collections is reopening on Monday, March 11th, with our new and expanded hours! With the reopening of Special Collections, Haverhill Public Library has now fully recovered from the storm damage of early January 2024. We are happy to be back! More Special Collections information is always available in […]
…but we hope for not much longer! We will be sure to post here, on our main page, and on social media when we reopen. Though Special Collections did not sustain much damage, there is some more restoration work to be completed on the 3rd floor before we regain full access to our space and […]
Damage from the recent winter storms forced the library to close from January 10, 2024 to January 17, 2024. Library administration and staff, restoration crews, and the City of Haverhill are working together to repair the damage. We are happy to announce that the library reopened January 18, 2024, but with limited services on the […]
We are pleased to announce that Special Collections will be expanding hours in 2024! We are also bringing back our evening hours for those who are not able to visit us during the day. Beginning January 2, 2024, Special Collections hours are as follows: Mondays: 10 AM to 3 PM Tuesdays: 10 AM to 3 PM Wednesdays: 10 […]
