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By adamg - 3/24/11 - 11:51 am

The Dorchester Reporter has the details on the latest from Boston Public Library trustees.

By adamg - 2/9/11 - 3:01 pm

Boston Police report Joseph Whalen, 66, of Yarmouth, was arrested for allegedly striking a man in the back of the head with a blunt object yesterday afternoon outside the BPL main library in Copley Square.

According to police, the victim was working on his laptop in the library around 4:45 p.m. when Whalen went up to him and demanded "Give met that!" Police say the victim refused, then left the library:

By adamg - 1/20/11 - 9:28 am

The Boston Public Library will be rolling out a new search tool for finding stuff - simple-to-use initial form, but with an advanced-search page if you want to do some of that old Boolean magic.

By adamg - 11/19/10 - 11:42 am

Shoshanna Kahne reviews Matt Hosey's works, on the walls of the BPL branch in Grove Hall - built entirely out of material he finds in hardware stores:

Hosey doesn't take pictures of his inspiration anymore. He just sees something — electrical wiring, roof lines, filled?in holes in the sidewalk and street — and he carries that feeling back to the studio with him. It's not about recreating the shape that so fascinates him; it's about recreating the feeling

By adamg - 11/15/10 - 3:09 pm

The Boston Public Library is putting on a series of jazz concerts at eight neighborhood branches in December.

By dwyer - 11/9/10 - 10:44 am

Louis Gossett, Jr., one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actors, is scheduled to appear at Lynn City Hall today where he’ll talk to over 2,000 middle school students about violence, racism, and bullying. Read full article by John Stephen Dwyer.

By adamg - 11/9/10 - 8:41 am

The Boston Public Library's Brighton branch is scheduled to re-open on Dec. 11, almost two years after a $5-million renovation began.

The BPL says the new library features new windows and furniture, "a new teen space with café-style seating facing the landscaped yard on Academy Hill Road," a new community room and 20 new computers. The building is now also handicap accessible and has a variety of energy-saving features.

There will be a formal dedication at 11 a.m. on Dec. 11.

By adamg - 10/26/10 - 6:36 am

They'll be setting up loudspeakers so people outside can hear what BPL President Amy Ryan has to say at a meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the still officially doomed Faneuil branch. Last night, Ryan told supporters of the Dorchester Lower Mills branch, also slated for a spring shutdown, that library officials would consider keeping branches open if money can be found.

By adamg - 10/25/10 - 8:00 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports on BPL President Amy Ryan's comments at a meeting at the Dorchester Lower Mills BPL branch, one of four currently slated for closing this spring.

By adamg - 10/25/10 - 8:55 am

The Faneuil Hall of the future, as envisioned at the turn of the century (the last century, that is):

Faneuil Hall's future in 1908

By adamg - 10/25/10 - 8:27 am

But what if the neighborhoods say no? Tough. BPL officials hold "working sessions" on how to replace the some of the services now provided by the doomed branches tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Dorchester Lower Mills branch and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Faneuil branch in Oak Square.

Sessions are planned for next month at Orient Heights and Washington Village (South Boston).

More.

By adamg - 9/22/10 - 7:58 pm

The East Boston Times-Free Press reports the new BPL branch library will be on the former NStar parcel inside the Bremen Street Park.

By adamg - 9/17/10 - 7:33 am

Mayor Menino has appointed state Rep. Byron Rushing to the Boston Public Library board of trustees.

As the Dorchester Reporter notes, earlier this year Rushing told library trustees he could not recall a group that has had a worse relationship with lawmakers than BPL trustees.

By adamg - 9/9/10 - 11:28 pm

Last night, Brandon Abbs, head of People of Boston, sent supporters an e-mail update on efforts to keep four Boston Public Library branchesopen and forestall other cuts in the BPL system and accused at-large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley of "all but abandoning" her support. Today, Pressley responded to the "insulting" message.

By adamg - 9/9/10 - 6:07 am

Saturday branch hours and Sunday hours at the Copley central library will start later than usual this fall: Oct. 16, instead of this weekend.

You may recall that part of the rationale for shutting four branch libraries (now set for this spring) was to "keep current hours" at the remaining 22 branches. People of Boston, a group formed to fight the closings, says City Councilor Charles Yancey plans to start raising library issues at hearings of the Post Audit and Oversight Committee he chairs.

By adamg - 7/23/10 - 3:36 pm

The city is soliciting bids for a firm to design and oversee construction of a $9.4-million library that would replace East Boston's two current, smallish branches.

The request for bids says construction would need to be finished no later than three years after a bid is awarded. The deadline for submitting a bid is Aug. 11.

The BPL recently began looking for possible sites for the new branch, but has yet to pick a final location.

BPL trustees promised East Boston a modern branch after voting to shut the Orient Heights branch library - which is now slated to close in roughly nine months.

By adamg - 7/22/10 - 10:57 am

TKOG reports that when she saw a bunch of smirky teens videoing what appeared to be a struggle between a mother and her mentally ill daughter at the BPL main library in Copley Square, she took action:

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