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🍂 It`s that time of the year for pumpkin picking and the @booktoberlibrarycrawl ! 🎃 Explore South Shore OCLN #Libraries until November 2nd by visiting as many OCLN libraries as you can to collect stamps and win prizes. For more info on how to participate, visit the link 🔗in bio!

#ultimatelibraryroadtrip #libraryroadtrip #explorelibraries #explorenewengland #massachusettslibraries #libraryfun #mblclibraries #malilbraries #southshorema #southshoremalibraries #librarycrawl #booktoberlibrarycrawl #booktober2024

#flashbackfriday ⏮ Just last week MLS and the MBLC hosted an *in-person* Library Social Services Networking Meeting at Shrewsbury Public Library! Networking round tables brought together #libraryworkers, #socialworkers, and 8 different state agencies and #nonprofit organizations to discuss the unique challenges #libraries face in offering social services. Thank you to the organizers and everyone who attended!

🔗 Interested in exploring how libraries can enhance community support through social services? Join an upcoming Community Chat on Social Service Supports at the link in bio!

#publiclibraries #libraryhealth #communityhealth #communityhealthatthelibrary #publiclibrary #publiclibrariesma #mapubliclibraries #mapubliclibrary #librarycollaboration #librarynetworking

📰 MBLC Commissioner Joyce Linehan was recently appointed by the Healey Driscoll Administration to serve on the new Cultural Economy Advisory Council, a group charged with exploring policies that support artists and cultural organizations, examining ways to create economic opportunities in the arts and culture sector, and promoting cultural equity in the arts. Congratulations, Commissioner Linehan!

For more on this new council 🔗 visit the link in bio.

#culturaleconomyadvisorycouncil #massachusetts #masschusettsarts #massachusettscouncil #equityinthearts #mblc #mblccommissioner

📰 " It’s an election year, and such efforts rarely make front-page news anymore, but book bans are alive and well." Read more from the NYT`s "Looking for a Superhero? Check the Public Library" at 🔗the link in bio.

#freedomtoread #bookbans #intellectualfreedom #challengedbooks #bookchallenges #bannedbooks #freedbetweenthelines #fread #freading #bannedbooksweek2024 #bannedbooks

Join us *next Wednesday at 1PM* for our next Community Health Conversation with the Department of Family and Medical Leave! Learn about how your library can help bridge access to the Paid Family and Medical Leave program for patrons and more. Register here at the 🔗link in bio!

#libraryhealth #communityhealth #communityhealthatthelibrary #publiclibrary #publiclibrariesma #mapubliclibraries #mapubliclibrary

It`s #BannedBooksWeek! 📢 According to recently published data from ALA, 1,128 unique titles were challenged between January through the end of August this year.

🔗For more data about censorship in 2024, visit the link in bio!

📅 Save the date! Commissioner Karen Traub will be presenting at the Beverly Public Library on 12/2/2024 about library activist Elizabeth Putnam Sohier (1847-1926), whose passion for libraries lead to the creation of the MBLC.

Learn more at 🔗 the link in the bio!