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The life and death of Old Main: Images preserve the legacy of a now-demolished Northampton State Hospital building by Sarah Dunlap [Originally published in The Daily Hampshire Gazette on: Thursday, December 13,…splay. “They were just a personal collection of pictures, but earlier this year, or last year, they started to knock down those buildings, and I just thought maybe the public would be interested in seeing them,” he said. Kirby, who spoke at Saturday’s reception, had been a member of the community group “Save Old Main,” which advocated the hospital site’s preservation. “One picture in particular of Mark’s kind of hit me in the heart, which is the p…

Library systematizer extraordinaire by Pip Stromgren [ Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on Saturday, June 26, 2004 ] Hanging over the reference librarians’ desk in Northampton’s Forbes Library is a…a month later. His father remarried and when his new wife had a baby, two-year-old Charles Ammi was sent to live with his grandfather and his three maiden aunts in West Cambridge. The aunts, who were independently wealthy, raised Cutter as their own, including later paying his tuition at Harvard College. One of the aunts was the town librarian so Cutter was exposed to books from an early age. Slight in build, of somewhat frail health and very nea…

group portrait by Stan Sherer phone 413-587-1011 & choose options from the voice menu, or see Departmental Directory below text/SMS 413‑570‑0444 fax 413-587-1015 email info@forbeslibrary.org or see Departmental Directory below….1 ext. 4513 Jill Emmons Outreach Delivery Service outreach​@​forbeslibrary.org 413-587-1019 Maria Sperduti Director director​@​forbeslibrary.org 413-587-1016 Lisa Downing Assistant Director Patron Services mmoss​@​forbeslibrary.org 413-587-1017 Molly Moss Business Office jlamour​@​forbeslibrary.org 413-587-1017 Jennie Lamour Library Technical Services techservices@forbeslibrary.org 413-587-1011 ext. 4528 Alene Moroni Benjamin Kalish To email a sta…

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…forum and responded to our survey. We also spoke to over forty local stakeholders about the challenges their organizations, and our city, will face in the coming years and ways in which the library can help. The library staff, the board of trustees, the Friends of Forbes Library, the Coolidge Museum Advisory Committee, and the members of our strategic planning committee identified the library’s strengths and created goals for the future. What we h…

FORBES LIBRARY CORI/SORI POLICY This policy is applicable to the criminal history screening of prospective and current volunteers and interns over the age of 18. I. CONDUCTING CORI SCREENING CORI…ant evidence of rehabilitation or lack thereof; and (i) Any other relevant information, including information submitted by the candidate or requested by the organization. The applicant is to be notified of the decision and the basis for it in a timely manner. VIII. ADVERSE DECISIONS BASED ON CORI/SORI If an authorized official is inclined to make an adverse decision based on the results of a criminal history background check, the applicant will be…

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,…inhabitants.  Entry on Slaves in Northampton. 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 previo…

The Racial & Social Justice Advisory Group advises the Trustees of Forbes Library to ensure that the voices of diverse community members are represented in the library’s efforts to seek…artry I am currently retired, but my public health career spanned more than 30 years, working in reproductive health care services and administration at Tapestry Health. I was elected to the Northampton School Committee for three terms (11 years) and served as the Vice Chair for three years. I have served on several committees and boards, such as The Committee for Northampton, created in the wake of Rodney King’s murder, the founding board of Woma…

A list of resources for English as a second language learners in the Northampton area. Center For New Americans https://cnam.org/ 17 New South St., Northampton, and locations in Greenfield and…learners of English as a second language. Jones Library ESL Center https://www.joneslibrary.org/248/ESL-Citizenship 43 Amity Street, Amherst, 259-3093 Tutoring and resource center Pioneer Valley Adult Education Center https://www.literacyproject.org/ 1 Brewster Court #1, Northampton, 584-6755 Provides GED testing as well as other education assistance. Massachusetts Adult Literacy Hotline massliteracyhotline.org/hotline/ or call: 1-800-447-8844. Th…

This program ran in 2016. It is archived here for those who are interested Hampshire & Franklin Counties – More than 25 libraries throughout the region and medical professionals from…h, Northampton. This event, part of Cooley Dickinson’s continuing community education series, is free and open to all; space is limited and registration is required by calling 888-554-4CDH or www.cooley-dickinson.org/classes. For more information about the Being Mortal events, contact Lisa Downing at ldowning@forbeslibrary.org or call 413-587-1017….