About the MBLC
The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) is the state library agency, founded in 1890, with the statutory authority and responsibility to organize, develop, coordinate, and improve library services throughout the Commonwealth.
As a state agency, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners promotes equitable access, advances innovation, and fosters resilience in libraries across the Commonwealth through funding, guidance, partnerships, and the coordination of statewide services.
Our vision for libraries in the Commonwealth is to see every library in Massachusetts as a thriving community hub, transforming lives through access to knowledge, information, and lifelong learning.
About this Website
The Massachusetts Libraries website provides the public a place to discover and learn about our free public library services. Visitors can get a library card, find library events, do research, learn how to borrow an eBook or audiobook, or which library will lend you a kayak.
The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) runs this website. Though we are not a public library, we work with all 369 Massachusetts public libraries to level the playing field and make sure everyone has access to the library services they want and need.
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AT YOUR LIBRARY
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🎉👏 Congratulations, on the grand opening of your newly renovated public library, Melrose! The Melrose Public Library project renovated the existing historic Carnegie building and replaced the outdated 1960s addition with a new addition and entrance to improve the library’s accessibility.
The existing library was decarbonized, making it an all-electric building!
🔗To read more about the Melrose`s new library, visit the link in bio or tinyurl.com/melrose-pl
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📷Photo Credit: Friends of Melrose Public Library
🖼️Photo Description: A group of people, including MBLC Commissioner Jessica Vilas Novas (third from left) stand outside the Melrose Public Library to cut a ceremonial red ribbon. The building has large glass windows and the text "MELROSE PUBLIC LIBRARY" on top.
🗨️"Our libraries and library professionals are keystones of our communities, fostering minds and offering a range of services to individuals regardless of background or status. We must continue to lift them up, especially this National Library Week, and demand that Trump and DOGE do not gut support for these vital institutions." - Senator Cory Booker
🔗 View source or read more at https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ARP1raCPi/ or the link bio!
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🏷️💲 Just how much does it cost a library when a book is challenged?? MBLC Library Advisory Specialist Al Hayden details the time, effort and taxpayer dollars that are taken away when #library employees and #libraryStaff must handle issues outside of regular duties. You can read the entire blog installment at : 🔗tinyurl.com/mblc-fyl
📊 For more censorship data gathered by ALA, visit: https://www.ala.org/bbooks
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📰 Published today: "The assault on libraries must end. Protect libraries so everyone has access to knowledge and opportunity" by Boston Public Library President David Leonard.
🔗You can read more of David Leonard`s opinion piece from the Boston Globe at tinyurl.com/bg-leonard or the link in bio!
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📰 MBLC Commissioner Karen Traub: "What to do when tax dollars fund millionaire golf games instead of libraries"
🔗You can read and share Commissioner Traub`s Greenfield Recorder letter at tinyurl.com/imls-traub or the link in bio!
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💖 Just. WOW. ✨Thank you, Susan Smith, for sharing your #LibraryStory and we are grateful for your dedication and care as a #Massachusetts #SchoolLibrarian for 24 years!
🔗 Check out other stories, photos and words of the many ways #LibrariesEmpower at LoveMassLibraries.com, and you can tell us how your library has helped you too.
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📚🚐 It`s National Library Outreach Day! #LibraryWorkers not only serve our communities inside the #LibraryBuilding, but you can often find them out and about bringing you books and more.
🖼️Here`s some photos of Fall River`s #Bookmobile that just turned a year old last month! Their Bookmobile serves as a mobile library branch, visits schools, senior centers, parks and house developments, and takes part in special events. It must be so exciting to see it come down the road!
1️⃣: Brinna Dessert, driver of the Fall River Public Library`s new bookmobile, stocks books on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Photo Credit: Colin Furze
2️⃣: The Fall River Public Library`s bookmobile was unveiled in February of 2024. Photo Credit: Colin Furze
3️⃣: A colorful scene on the left side of the Fall River Public Library`s state-of-the-art bookmobile. Photo Credit: Colin Furze.
🔗 Learn more about Fall River`s Bookmobile from The Herald News last year at the link in bio!
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⚠️The library services you count on are at risk. IMLS is the single largest source of critical federal funding for libraries. The MBLC uses federal funds to provide library services for everyone. 🔗 Learn more at the link in bio or at tinyurl.com/mblc-imls
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