Chinatown Storefront Library Blog Archive

This page is an archived collection of blog posts from the 2009-2010 Storefront Library. Learn more about the Storefront Library project here.

This Weekend: Storytime + Ancient Egypt

Saturday is big in the Storefront Library. Start off at 11:30AM with a our weekly You and Me Storytime. This week: Cars and Trucks and Things That Go! Follow up with a special event at 2:00PM: Ancient Egypt! Discover mummies and the pyramids of Ancient Egypt. Try...

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Today at the Library: TALK READ PLAY

Talk Read Play is a public awareness campaign focusing on the role of parents as their children’s first teachers from birth to age five. The campaign provides critical information and resources to support parents in educating their young children. Friday, November...

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Storefront Library: now open all weekend.

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...

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Tufts University’s EXPOSURE to Document 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...

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The Storefront Library has been open one week

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...

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We are not alone.

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...

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Urban Wildlife in the Storefront Library

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...

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