Your Library Card Unlocks Access to Dozens of Museums

Calling all sports fans - we know playoff season is right around the corner so we're introducing a new Museum & Recreation Pass to our lineup: a seasonal pass to The Sports Museum! Located inside TD Garden, The Sports Museum has been serving Boston and New England for the past 40 years and offers tours to both an impressive collection of Boston sports memorabilia as well as summer tours of TD Garden Arena.

Mark your calendar - on April 3rd, the museum curator will deliver a talk entitled "Boston as a Sports Capital and Mecca of Sports" in Druker Auditorium.

Also museum related, we're excited to welcome the Museum of Russian Icons to present Faith and Folktales: Russian Storytelling through Image on Zoom on Tuesday, March 7th at 7pm.  Register here.

This talk ties into the beautiful museum artifacts in our Main Hall display cases this month. Visit the museum for free by reserving the pass with your Library card. The pass admits up to 6 people for free for general admission.

Celebrate Women's History Month

New Books

• Believing by Anita Hill
• Agent Josephine by Damien Lewis
• Proving Ground by Kathy Kleiman
• Formidable by Elisabeth Griffith
• The Queen by Andrew Morton

Non-Fiction

• The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
• The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton
• Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams
• The Girl Explorers by Jayne Zanglein
• Anna May Wong by Graham Russell Hodges (Wong was recently put on the U.S. quarter in the United States Mint's American Women Quarters Program!)

Fiction

• Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley
• The Surgeon's Daughter by Audrey Blake
• The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

Discover Legendary Piano Teacher Margaret Chaloff

Using a groundbreaking technique that emphasized a light arm, Madame Margaret Stedman Chaloff became a sought-after teacher for classical and jazz pianists like George Wein, Leonard Bernstein, Keith Jarrett, and Chick Corea.

Join for a Newton History Series Program uncovering her vibrant local history on Thursday, March 30, 7pm. Register here. 

Join us April 29, 2023 to benefit the Newton Free Library

Join the Board of Trustees for an extraordinary evening amid the stacks at their annual Spring Fling Gala on April 29th at 6:30pm. Hear from featured local authors Tom Perrotta and Robert Waldinger, M.D. over dinner and music in the Atrium. Tom Perrotta is the bestselling author of nine works of fiction, including Election and Little Children,  The Leftovers, and his latest, Tracy Flick Can’t Win.  Dr. Robert Waldinger is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest study of human wellbeing ever conducted. His book, The Good Life was published in January of this year. 

Enjoy a special night out while supporting the Library as a treasured community resource. Sponsorship opportunities and individual reservations are available. 

Welcome Gina, our new Supervisor of Borrower Services!

Gina Wise joins us after gaining 12 years of experience at the Public Library of Brookline where she began as a volunteer before being hired as a Library Assistant, a Reference Librarian and then Circulation Supervisor. While holding that role for the past 5 years, she discovered that the essential tasks of this department bring her the most joy. With Gina at the helm, you can count on our wonderful Borrower Services team for a warm welcome at the main desk, and for help to checking in and out your library selections. 

Feel free to ask Gina about growing up in Germany, the sports celebrity she helped while working at Blockbuster, the punk band she's seen in concert seven times, and general Mom shenanigans (she's a busy mother of two lovable toddlers). Here are a few of Gina's favorite reads for kids: