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Minutes Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board September 28, 2022 4PM Present: Ben Kalish, Librarian Mary Biddle, Librarian Mary Jo Stanley Dorothy Baker Barbara Black Website Progress We are currently in…list of Committee Members, whose names are listed on the Forbes Library website. Advantages of having a list of members include giving the community more folks to approach with questions about the board, demonstrating community commitment, and potentially encouraging new members. Ben will follow up with folks who have attended a meeting in the past year to ask whether they would like to be publicly acknowledged as members of this board on the webs…

From 2011–2015, Forbes Library presented the Local History/Local Novelists, a reading and lecture series which explored links between local history and contemporary novelists, held the first Wednesday of the month…, freelance editor, and gives cemetery tours. SPIDER IN A TREE, her novel about Northampton in the time of 18th century Calvinist preacher Jonathan Edwards, was published in October 2013. Her website is www.susanstinson.net/. Please see the archived Complete Local History/Local Novelists Reading and Lecture Series Calendar for a list of completed events.  …

The Library’s Mission Forbes Library exists to provide a wide range of information and materials to all of the people of Northampton, using traditional and innovative technology, and to encourage…30,000 people. Because of the five colleges, there are a large number of students in the community who continually use the public library as their point of access for information. As of Fiscal Year 2015, 17,147 residents of Northampton, Florence, and Leeds had active library cards. Approximately 55% of adult residents 25 years and over have academic degrees at the bachelor’s level or higher. 12.5% of Northampton’s residents speak a language other…

Susan StinsonPhotograph by Jody Wheat Susan Stinson, Writer-In-Residence Emeritus, served from 2010-2015. She is the award-winning author of four novels and a book of poetry and lyric essays. She has…inist preacher Jonathan Edwards, was published by Small Beer Press. Her website is www.susanstinson.net. You can view videos of Susan Stinson reading from Spider in a Tree at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University. Susan’s Writer In Residence programs included the popular Local History/Local Novelists reading and lecture series, which ran five seasons, October through May, (mostly) at 7 pm on the first Wednesday of the month in the Coolidg…