Chinatown Storefront Library Blog Archive
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...
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...
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...
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...
Storefront Library open until 6PM tonight
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)
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...
Friends of the Chinatown Library: Community Meeting with Candidates
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...
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...
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...