The Special Collections team is happy to continue open hours on one Saturday per month through November, 2025! We are open November 22nd, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Researchers are welcome to drop in during this time without an appointment, though we recommend calling ahead if you are traveling a distance to visit. Please join us […]
Discover the macabre and mystical with our Halloween Reads display! Read up on The Salem Witch Trials or ghosts and other strange phenomena in New England. See below to put some books on hold! Also on display are our Staff Pics and the October Fiction Display, Haunted Horrors of the Bay State!
Elementary, a reimagining of the Sherlock Holmes stories, places the famous detective (Johnny Lee Miller) in modern-day New York City. He works as a consultant for the NYPD with Dr. Joan Watson, played by Lucy Liu. The show adapts his classic deductive reasoning to contemporary crimes, and introduces the benefits of new technology to Holmes’ detecting […]
Celebrate Banned Books Week by perusing a dangerous item from our October booklist! Find this and many more lists on our Booklists page. Featured Books: Top row: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini; The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls; The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas. Middle row: The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins; The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison; […]
Tuesday, October 7 2:00-3:30 PM OR Wednesday, October 15, 6:00-7:30 PM Join us to learn the basics of using Microsoft Word! This is a great class if you want to learn about a word processing program for typing letters, resumes, papers, and more. Plus, Microsoft Word is available on the library’s public computers! Registration is […]
10/1 | 9:30-11:30 AM | VIRTUAL 50+ Job Seekers Networking Group — Resumes (“A Pocketful of STARS”) This week’s topic (October 1) is Resumes! The Library 50+ Job Seekers Networking Group meets via Zoom on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, from 9:30am to 11:30am. Informal networking takes place from 9am to 9:30am […]
Enemy empires, forbidden romance, and a secret queen meant to save her people. Alizeh is seen as a servant, meant to stay in the shadows. All along, she is a Jinn, an ancient race forced to stay hidden because of their abilities. More than that, it turns out she might be the secret queen prophesized […]
We are pleased to announce the latest round of rare shoe titles to be digitized and added our Internet Archive webpage! For the past two years, the Special Collections Department has been working with the Boston Public Library and the Internet Archive hub there to digitize the rarest shoe titles in our collections, making them […]
HPL provides access to Britannica Library (as in Encyclopaedia Britannica) to patrons through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. This digital resource includes sections for kids and young adults as well as a Reference Center. The Reference Center includes articles and media on a wide variety of topics as well as biographies of notable individuals. […]
After spending at least two horror-filled months reading Stephen King’s 1000+ page novel “It”, I desperately needed to read something relatively fast and absorbing. Griffin Dunne’s family memoir, “The Friday Afternoon Club”, totally fit the bill! So many famous names had been dropped by page 28 that I felt like I was reading a (celebrity) […]
