Announcements

Pause on North End Library Book Sale & Book Returns

Dear North End Community, Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boston Public Library is closed, which includes the North End Branch Library. This means the Friends of the North End Library cannot continue with their daily book sale, nor can we accept books or other materials at this time. Please do not leave books or Read More…

Event Notices

Library Lecture: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris

Join the North End Library for a Museum of Fine Arts guide’s discussion of the museum’s current “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris” exhibition, which runs from April 7 – August 14. The presentation will include vivid posters, prints, and paintings in which Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) captured Parisian nightlife in the late nineteenth century, Read More…

Event Notices

North End Public Library April Events

Join the North End branch of the Boston Public Library for a great lineup of events in April 2019. There will be events for seniors, teens and children including movies, games and author talks. Join the library this weekend, April 4 – 6, for library tours for their spring open house. See the full calendar Read More…

Announcements Event Notices

What Music Did the Pilgrims Hear?

What music did the Pilgrims hear? The Plimoth colonists were a diverse group of Separatists and Anglicans, religious zealots and irreverent opportunists. They brought with them music as varied as their reasons for coming to the New World in 1620. Plimoth Colony heard not just solemn English psalms, but also humorous catches, ballads, Dutch songs, Read More…

Commentaries

Downtown View: A Look at the Library

Summer has ended. We’re back. The renovations to the 1972 Johnson building at the Central Library are finished. You must see the results. They are scrumptious. It was the former library president, Amy Ryan, whose experience in other parts of the country helped her envision a happier and more serviceable space in the building named Read More…

Arts & Culture Event Notices

Saturday Hours Return to Neighborhood Branch Libraries on September 7, 2013

Saturday hours return to the neighborhood branches of the Boston Public Library, including the North End (25 Parmenter St.), starting on September 7, 2013. More information in the news release below. Saturday Hours Return to Neighborhood Branches; Sunday Hours Return to Central Library Detailed hours information available on the Boston Public Library website Saturday hours Read More…