Boston Public Library Relaunches BPL Passport Program for Library Card Sign-Up Month

BOSTON, MA – August 28, 2025 – The Boston Public Library (BPL) is celebrating Library Card Sign-Up Month this September with the relaunch of its BPL Passport Program, now featuring new prizes. The BPL Passport encourages community members and visitors to explore BPL’s 26 locations and their surrounding neighborhoods, experiencing the city through the lens…
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Boston Public Library Teams Up With Grammy®-Winning Artist Laufey for Special-Edition Library Card With Her Book Club

BOSTON, MA - August 20, 2025 - The Boston Public Library (BPL) is partnering with GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Laufey and her global Laufey Book Club to release a special limited-edition library card ahead of Library Card Sign-Up Month in September and in celebration of A Very Laufey Day on August 24 — a worldwide fan…
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Boston Public Library Celebrates Disability Pride Month

BOSTON, MA - June 30, 2025 - The Boston Public Library (BPL) celebrates Disability Pride Month with its Disabled, Not Unable booklist. Observed annually in July, Disability Pride Month honors and explores the influence and legacy of members of the disabled and neurodivergent community. The Disabled, Not Unable booklist, compiled by BPL staff from various locations, features 75 recent…
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Boston Public Library Launches Planning Process to Return the ‘People’s Palace’ to the People

BOSTON, MA – June 26, 2025 – The Boston Public Library (BPL) today announced the launch of a comprehensive, five-year planning process for the renovation of the Central Library’s historic McKim building. The process, funded by a transformational $5.5 million gift made by an anonymous donor through the Boston Public Library Fund (BPLF), will bring…
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Boston Public Library Receives National Grant to Expand Workforce Support for English-Language Learners

BOSTON, MA — June 10, 2025 — The Boston Public Library (BPL) has received a $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of the foundation’s Libraries as Pillars of Education and Democracy initiative. The grant, made through the Boston Public Library Fund, places the BPL among a select group of public libraries…
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Boston Public Library Celebrates $1 Million Grant from LEGO Group

BOSTON, MA — May 19, 2025 — The Boston Public Library (BPL) and the LEGO Group have launched a new partnership setting in motion a citywide initiative that leverages play to address urgent early literacy challenges and ignite creativity and agency in Boston’s youth. Funded through a $1 million grant from the company's LEGO Community…
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Mayor Wu, Community Celebrate Groundbreaking of $30.9 Million New Fields Corner Branch

BOSTON, MA – Monday, May 6, 2025 - Mayor Michelle Wu yesterday joined Boston Public Library (BPL) officials and Fields Corner community members to highlight the start of construction of the new Fields Corner Branch. The $30.9 million construction project will create a new two-story building with improved accessibility, expanded community space, and advanced energy…
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Boston Public Library Celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

BOSTON, MA – April 30, 2025 - To honor Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the Boston Public Library (BPL) is releasing its Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month booklist, a booklist of recent titles commemorating the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience and highlighting these cultures' representation in print. Celebrated annually…
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