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Entering our second week of operation, we’re announcing new hours designed to meet strong weekend demand for the library. We are now open Saturday & Sunday 11AM-6PM. We’re also open Monday to allow restaurant workers and their families to visit the library on their day off. Here are the new hours of the Storefront Library: [...]
EXPOSURE, a Tufts University’s program for photojournalism, documentary studies, and human rights will be documenting the Storefront Library in photographs and interviews to be gathered during the fall. Students, led by Kyle Chayka, will be visiting the space routinely to create an in-depth look at the library’s operation. EXPOSURE’s Ben Ross attended the opening ceremony [...]
The library will stay open an extra hour tonight, until 6PM. Please drop in. Regular hours are TUE-THU 11AM-6PM, FRI & SAT 10AM-5PM. (Update: new hours posted here)
During our first week, you told us that: you want more Chinese language materials you want to check out books you don’t want to wait in line to use a computer Here’s what we’ve done: Volunteer Astrid Muller led a drive for Chinese-language materials from sources all over Boston, including local organizations and foreign student [...]
Today, Thursday, October 22, from 4pm – 5:30pm Come hear about the campaign for a permanent branch library in the neighborhood, hosted by the organization: Friends of Chinatown Library. Candidates for Mayor and City Council at-Large, and Councilor Linehan’s office have been invited, and will have an opportunity to share their ideas. All welcome. For more [...]
On Sept. 17, 2009, a temporary branch of the North Park Library was opened in a Kmart Plaza storefront in North Buffalo, NY. The library is 4000 sq. feet and includes a computer lab and children’s area. We appreciate how the planners created a timeline describing the steps they took in developing this project, including [...]
Join Erin Kelly, naturalist from the Boston Nature Center for a nature program in the library: Wild in the City. Thursday, October 22, 10am-11:30am a free event at the new Chinatown Storefront Library 640 Washington St (between Essex and Beach) Preschool age children learn how wildlife survive in the city through picture book reading, sharing, [...]
The Storefront Library is a working library and also an experiment. Here’s a snapshot of visitor head counts taken every 30 minutes during our first day of operation: Come visit, use the library, and tell us what you think. The more you put the Storefront Library to the test, the more we all learn about [...]
The library will stay open an extra hour tonight, until 6PM. Please drop in. Regular hours are TUE-THU 11AM-6PM, FRI & SAT 10AM-5PM. (Photo by Jerry Huang.)
Officer Tommy Yung of the Boston Police Department stopped by on his day off to donate eight boxes of books. Officer Yung patrols the neighborhood on bicycle, and he has already met with staff to coordinate public safety around the library. He will be swinging by regularly as part of his work in the neighborhood. [...]
Join Greg Tang, author of The Grapes of Math, for a math workshop at the Storefront Library this Saturday, Oct. 17 at 11AM. Learn effective ways to think about numbers and practical strategies that make math easy and fun! Parents and other homework helpers are encouraged to attend. Suggested for ages 8-12. Free and open to [...]
The Storefront Library opened to the public this morning at 11AM and will be open until 6PM tonight. Thanks to the hundreds of people who came to the opening ceremony last night. It’s less crowded this morning, but no less exciting. Check out a story about the Storefront Library by WBUR’s Andrea Shea which ran [...]
Thank you to the 250+ people who attended the opening ceremony of the Storefront Library on Oct. 14, 2009. Your show of support was overwhelming and deeply appreciated by the staff, volunteers, and contributors to the project. (Photos contributed by Cynthia Yee, Ben Ross, and Peter Davol.) Thank you to our featured speakers: Mayor Tom [...]
Thanks to Lee Moreau for graphic design donated in-kind to the Storefront Library. Lee also connected us with Mark Andreasson’s firm Design Communications Ltd (DCL) which donated fabrication and installation of our new nine foot window sign. Angela Exposito & Adam Lawson of DCL came out this morning and installed the new sign with good humor and [...]
Over 20 volunteer staff have completed early morning and evening training sessions about the operation of the Storefront Library. The Storefront Library front-line volunteer staff are smart, energetic, and excited to open the doors of the library to the community. They come from different backgrounds, including the Chinatown community, and library science graduate programs. All [...]
When the Storefront Library opens on October 15, operating hours will be TUE-THU 11am-6pm, FRI & SAT 10am-5pm. The newly revised schedule will keep the library open more hours overall, and it will allow us to maximize the number of staff, interns, and volunteers working in the space. In addition to regular operating hours, watch [...]
In the past 48 hours, the Storefront Library collection has nearly tripled in size, with generous donations from The Learning Project Elementary School, Dawn C. Donovan, Hiroko Kikuchi & Jeremy Chi-Ming Liu, Virgina Ward, and many others. Adam Robinson, Brianna Belanger, and Lucy Borgheiinck from Simmons Graduate School of Library Sciences have volunteered hours of [...]
We’re pleased to announce that a bookplate designed by Boston-born artist, Sarah Sze, will mark each book donated to the Storefront Library’s collection.
For the past three days, volunteer crews from Shawmut Design and Construction have helped pack, move, and assemble furnishings for the Storefront Library. Special thanks to Shawmut and also the staff at Archstone Boston Common for working with us to bring the library and space online.