Looking for a good book to read? NoveList can help! Contains lists, reviews, feature articles, and more. Search by authors, plot lines, series, reading level, etc.
NoveList Plus, the non-fiction counterpart to NoveList, is a guide to narrative non-fiction such as history, biography, adventure, travel, you name it. An easy interface with many search options makes this an excellent reader’s advisory tool.
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Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Includes biographical entries on more than 135,000 authors, more than 850,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from scholarly journals, literary magazines, and other reference books.
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May 7, 2015 — Susan Stinson, photo by Jeep Wheat The Trustees of Forbes Library will present Susan Stinson with the Twenty-Eighth Annual Trustees Award on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 2 PM. The…— which has appeared in The Public Humanist, The Kenyon Review, The Seneca Review, Curve, Lambda Book Report and The Women’s Review of Books — has received the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Benjamin Franklin Award in Fiction as well as a number of fellowships. She was born in Texas, raised in Colorado, and now lives in Northampton, MA. Susan was a visiting lecturer at Amherst College for the spring…
Academic OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource of full-text peer-reviewed content for over 10,000 manually indexed journals and reference works covering all subjects. It also includes the full-text of The New York Times back to 1995 and NPR, CNN & CBC transcripts and podcasts.
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The Merck Manual has been a standard medical reference source for more than 100 years. Although discontinued in print, the online version is kept up to date, and includes both advanced content for doctors and medical students, as well as easy to understand content for patients, parents and caregivers.
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Martha Hall Kelly’s third foray into the lives and activism of the affluent Woolsey women is as well researched and engaging as Lilac Girls (2016) and Lost Roses (2019), and…with her previous books, Kelly focuses on three women’s lives and loves: Georgeanna (Georgy) Woolsey leaves her privileged life to serve as a Union nurse alongside her former beau; Anne-May Wilson is a plantation and slave owner in the border state of Maryland; and Jemma is an enslaved woman on that plantation who is sold and then conscripted into the Union army. Sunflowers were used as a signal to enslaved people seeking freedom that danger was n…
With advance notice, we can give your group a library tour, or a librarian can make an outreach visit to your local school or organization. Visit from a school group…roup tour of the library Contact: Molly Moss, 587-1017, info@forbeslibrary.org Please let us know the number of people, name of organization or group, and anything you are specifically interested in seeing or learning about. Please give us 2 weeks notice if you can. Visiting librarian presentation to your group/organization Group visit to the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum or Hampshire Room for Local History Contact: Julie Bartl…
Minutes Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board 4 November 2021 4:00 PM This meeting was on zoom. Present: Ben Kalish, Reference Librarian Molly Moss, Assistant Director Brian Tabor, Borrower Services Supervisor/note…d’s low visibility. The advisory board has a page (https://forbeslibrary.org/accessibility/disability-advisory-board/) on the library website that lists upcoming meetings, agenda and minutes and meetings are listed on the library’s events calendar. Ideas for increasing the boards visibility might include: Promoting it the library’s weekly events newsletter or Wowbrary, a weekly announcement of new materials in the library that the library also…
Shelters and housing assistance in the Northampton Area. Shelters Hampshire County Interfaith Shelter 43 Center Street, Northampton. Follow signs to the entrance in back. 413-586-6750 An emergency overflow shelter for…y choose to enroll in their Heating System Repair Program, Weatherization Program, or Electric Efficiency Program. Internet Essentials Inexpensive broadband and computers available to eligible households with at least one child receiving free or reduced-price lunch under the National School Lunch program. Lifeline Lifeline is a federal program that helps eligible individuals pay for wireless or home telephone service. Most telephone companies lowe…
August 21, 2017 — The Franklin Hampshire Career Center and Forbes Library announce a partnership to provide Career Center satellite services at the Library. The Career Center will out-station staff on a weekly basis…e at the Greenfield Career Center. Information about how to take advantage of Career Center services offered at Forbes Library can be found on the Franklin Hampshire Career Center website at: https://www.masshirefhcareers.org or by calling the Career Center at 413-774-4361. Event information will be posted on the Forbes Library website at: https://forbeslibrary.org/events…
September 3, 2015 — Exhibit Opportunity for Western Mass. Artists in All Media From September 3 through October 10, 2015, artists may apply to exhibit their work in the Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library next…e completed online or printed and mailed with a CD of images. Criteria for review include technical and artistic quality, a coherent theme, and contribution to an interesting and varied program for the year. Artists living and working in the greater Northampton area are eligible to apply. First-time exhibitors, individuals and groups are welcome. Art exhibits featuring the work of local artists have been part of Forbes Library’s cultural mission f…
July 7, 2020 — The Trustees of Forbes Library have established the Marie Hershkowitz Memorial Children’s Book Fund in honor of the beloved Bridge Street School teacher. The fund was established with a gift…of this growth was a result of our expanded outreach to schools and other organizations that serve youth in our community. The library established its first book funds early in the library’s 125-year history and have added additional funds as opportunities have arisen through the years. Interest from these funds—along with donations and grants—are the sole source of funding for our book budget. Unfortunately, these funds are not keeping pace with…
