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Strategic Plan 2025-2027
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Strategic Plan 2019-2023
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Northampton’s Forbes Library turns page on first 125 years
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Collection Development Policy
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Forbes Staff Member Receives Competitive Award
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Forbes Library, Historic Northampton and Wistariahurst host States of Incarceration, a traveling exhibition
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Hamptons + Holyoke Read: Orange is the New Black
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Order of Expansive Classification call numbers
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Borrow museum passes
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MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center Update
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