Details on our use of controlled vocabulary, reparative language efforts, descriptive terms, and content warnings in Special Collections Records in our online special collections were migrated from an older system…t, oppressive, offensive language. Forbes Library is committed to continually reviewing the past and current cataloging practices. Specific projects, grants, virtual exhibits, and collections have and will continue to use community members, other organizations, community partners, and archival professionals to advise library staff. In 2023, we began adding detailed image descriptions in English and Spanish, also available in audio, for objects in…
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Meeting Rooms and Grounds Use Policy
To reserve a meeting room, see: Reservations | Meeting Room Scheduler | Meeting Room Fee Schedule Forbes Library offers three meeting rooms: the Friends of Forbes Community Room, the Watson Room, and…brary will refuse space to individuals or organizations which have previously failed to comply with stated requirements for use. This includes (but is not limited to) failure to allow staff to follow normal lock-up procedures, excessive noise which causes complaints from other Library users, or failure to make a reasonable effort to clean up after serving refreshments. All events, including cleanup, must conclude 15 minutes before the library’s cl…
Scholarships for Northampton Area Students
This list includes scholarships which target students from Western Massachusetts and Massachusetts generally. The Ad Club of Western Massachusetts The Ad Club of Western Massachusetts offers a merit based scholarship…ial assistance to a current Cooley Dickinson employee who is either currently accepted or currently enrolled full time in an accredited school of nursing, working to complete an associate’s degree, a three-year diploma, a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree in nursing. The Therese Connor Nursing Education Fund provides financial assistance is available on an annual basis to registered nurses at Cooley Dickinson. The Louise Finn Nursing Scholars…
Judd Manuscript Collection
Judd Manuscript Collection Digitized materials from the Judd Manuscript Collection available on archive.org The Judd Manuscript Collection consists of 70 bound volumes of handwritten accounts and transcriptions of documents, letters,…on. Judd Manuscript, Northampton Prices and Account Books, page 305. Recently, the collection has been used extensively in Historic Northampton’s Slavery Research Project and the “Documenting Early Black Lives in the Connecticut River Valley” project, allowing researchers and historians to identify numerous enslaved and free Black people from the area and recover details about their lives which were previously unknown. It is our hope that increase…
Strategic Plan 2019-2023
Please download the library’s strategic plan here: Message from the Chair (PDF / 1 page) Strategic Plan Summary (PDF / 4 pages) Complete Strategic Plan (PDF / 40 pages) Completed…oung Adult Room incorporate learning opportunities for caregivers about early literacy topics in early childhood programming 5. Fun Forbes Library enriches lives by providing free entertainment, recreational reading, access to the arts, and opportunities to create. Celebrate and support authors and readers Inspire and encourage the community to explore and create Provide opportunities to experience art and music Enhance library grounds for communi…
Celebrate New Art Works in Forbes Library’s Collection, February 4
January 18, 2023 — Reception Saturday, February 4, 2-3:30 PM The public is invited to a reception spotlighting the new art works by local and regional BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists which…color of Sojourner Truth by the great Richard Yarde. Richard Yarde originally donated the painting to the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Committee to raise funds for the Sojourner Truth Scholarship Fund. The Committee has generously donated the painting to Forbes Library so that it will be available to the community. Carlie Tartakov will say a few words on behalf of the Committee at the event. Many of the contemporary artists will attend the rece…
Forbes Library Eliminating Late Fees for All Patrons
May 19, 2021 — Forbes Library eliminated late fees for children and young adults in 2019 and has now stopped charging adults late fees as well. The Trustees of Forbes Library unanimously approved this…es of Forbes Library unanimously approved this policy change at their April 2021 meeting upon the recommendation of the library’s Racial & Social Justice Committee. Research shows that rather than encourage people to return library materials in a timely manner, overdue fines often instead result in patrons not returning items at all because they are discouraged by the fees or unable to afford them. This means that the library does not get these it…
Trustees’ Award
Each year the Trustees honor a community member who has given exceptional volunteer service to Forbes Library. Congratulations to Joe Twarog and Stan Sherer, the Forbes Library Gertrude P. Smith…YearRecipient2024 Stan Sherer and Joseph A. Twarog 2022Marjorie Hess 2020 & 2021Elaine Reall, Martha McCormick, and Dr. Melvin Hershkowitz 2019Daria D’Arienzo, George Snook 2018Tim Umbach 2017Jarrett Krosoczka, Mikki Michon 2016Bonnie Burnham, Peter Rowe 2015Susan Stinson 2014W. Michael & Judy Ryan 2012Kari S. Knapp, Christine Nolan 2011Gerald Budgar, Mo & Cher Willems 2010Mary Harding 2009Margaret Bowhill, Elinor Dole 2008David Bloomberg, Anne Ke…
California Split
George Segal and Elliott Gould star in California Split, my all time favorite Robert Altman film and one of the best from the 1970’s. This dark, buddy comedy is centered…nge audio recording gives the picture an incredible depth and a real sense of place. The conversations from the extras and bit characters are always audible and usually rather interesting. Ultimately, the story of California Split asks, does money really equal happiness?…
The Trip
This feature mockumentary, edited down from a BBC television series, stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as exaggerations of themselves in the entertaining fictional road movie, The Trip. The two…n and agent reveal the actor’s lonelier side and his frustration dealing with aging. The uncredited supporting role of this film are the beautiful hills and mountains and the elaborate dishes Rob and Steve are served. Most importantly however, the friendship seen on screen, though obscured by Coogan’s condescension and bitterness, is rather touching at times. Despite his best efforts to isolate himself, this is possibly a story about meaningful hu…
I Kissed a Girl
After dying early in a few horror movies, actress Lilah Silver is headlining for the first time. Noa Birnbaum just dropped out of college to take a makeup artist/special effects…cannily accurate anonymous item in a gossip magazine and evidence of a dangerous fan, plus the heightened emotion of an intense film shoot, and you have a fast read filled with warmth, romance, coming out, vivid supporting characters, and a behind-the-scenes peek at Hollywood. Lilah and Noa are believably imperfect young Jewish women navigating early adulthood with the support of their friends and families, stumbling into solvable problems on thei…
Historical Fiction: World War II
April 23, 2014 — Unbroken : A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean…und by history and love, of a marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family’s struggle against annihilation by the Nazis and of the dangerous power of art in the time of war. The World at Night by Alan Furst In 1940 Paris, film producer and bon vivant Jean Casson undertakes a dangerous mission against Germany in the world of espionage, an assignment that could cost him everything–even his life. Nemesis by Philip Roth In a book set in 1944 Newark…
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