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📚✨ What an impressive and amazing event at Westhampton Public Library! 240 readers gathered for "Lounging with Literacy II," to celebrate the library’s 15th anniversary of their move and renovation and raise awareness about library funding while attempting a world record for the largest group reading in lawn chairs! 🌍💺
🔗For more about this year`s Lounging with Literacy, visit the link in bio.
📷Photo Credit: Chris Evans/ Daily Hampshire Gazette. An aerial view of the 240 readers on the lawn of Westhampton Public Library.
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🎉 Congratulations to Director Maureen Amyot on her 1-year anniversary with the MBLC! 📚✨ Thank you, Maureen, for your passion and dedication to enhancing library services across Massachusetts! Here`s to many more years of your impactful work! 👏
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📷Director Amyot celebrated her 1 year anniversary with Oliver at the Attleboro Public Library for a Bruins Visit. Thank you, @attleborolibrary for hosting such a wonderful afternoon and we look forward to visiting again soon!
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ALT: MBLC Director Maureen Amyot and a child are kneeling with Oliver the therapy dog by "Read @ your library" posters and Jenga blocks. The posters feature a Bruins hockey player and encourage learning at libraries.
📚🏒 This past Tuesday was an unforgettable day at @woburnlibrary ! Prospective Bruins players brought amazing energy chatting with fans and reading with kids. Thank you to everyone who made the summer kickoff so special. LET`S GO BRUINS! 💛🖤
🔗 Next week, @attleborolibrary ! For more info and a schedule of this summer`s library visits with Bruins mascot Blades, visit the link in bio.
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A huge thank you to @woburnlibrary for hosting an incredible Bruins Summer Reading Kickoff yesterday! 📚🏒 We appreciate everyone who came out to join us, the amazing volunteers and special guests who made the afternoon so fun. 🙌 Stay tuned for more photos to come! 📸✨
🔗For more info and a schedule of this summer`s library visits with Bruins mascot Blades, visit the link in bio!
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#MemoriesMonday 👏 Congratulations, Westford! Last Monday, community members, local officials and legislators celebrated the groundbreaking of the J.V. Fletcher library expansion and renovation project. 🔗Learn more at the link in bio or tinyurl.com/westford-gb
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👏Congratulations, @worcesterpubliclibrary on your John Cotton Dana (JCD) Award! Each year, the ALA honors exceptional public relations efforts to elevate the awareness and impact of library services with the JCD award. Worcester Public Library`s "March Meowness" captured attention across the nation by eliminating barriers to library access by waiving fees in exchange for photos of cats. 🐈
🔗You can learn more at tinyurl.com/2025-jcd
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🏗️ Amherst residents, state representatives and local officials recently gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Jones Library. The Jones Library renovation and expansion project is partially funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) with a base grant of over $13.8 million from its Massachusetts Public Library Construction Program (MPLCP).
📰To read more, visit the link in bio or tinyurl.com/amherst-gb
📷For more photos of the event, visit the MBLC`s flickr account at flickr.com/photos/mblclibraries/
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💝🏛️The Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library will be renamed to honor Sarah-Ann Shaw, Boston`s first Black woman TV reporter. Shaw was a lifelong resident of Roxbury, who "paved the way for generations of journalists, storytellers, and leaders. Her passion for her Roxbury community and brilliance in reporting stories that otherwise would not have received the coverage they deserved reshaped Boston`s media landscape," said Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
🔗For more on this special dedication, visit the link in bio.
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