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Local authors and illustrators in western Mass. libraries. Children’s authors are in blue. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Janet Aalfs Unmi Abkin John Allen Anna Alter Edgar C. Alward Louise Appell Margot Apple…pelman C. Spencer Patricia Stacey Ilan Stavans Allen Steele Heidi Stemple D.A. Stern (Dave Stern) Sean Stewart Susan Stinson Karen Sturges Terry Suchanek Wally Swist T David Tasgal James Tate David Tatlock Roger Taylor Gail Thomas Pamela Thompson John Thorne Ronald Tiersky Sharon Tracey Ann Warren Turner Justin Tussing Brad Tuttle Ani Tuzman V Monica Vachula Emmet Van Driesche Erica Verrillo Carl Vigeland Ocean Vuong W Richard Walz Bruce Watson El…

Looking for a place to volunteer? Consider volunteering for Forbes Library or check out these pages. Northampton Survival Center (413) 586-6564 or info@northamptonsurvival.org The Northampton Survival Center is dedicated to…for people interested in volunteering in Adult Basic Education programs. Daily Hampshire Gazette Volunteer opportunities are frequently listed in the Life / Announcements Section. Western Mass Craigslist Volunteer Page The Craigslist of Western Massachusetts maintains a forum of local volunteer opportunities….

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…taloging system is partially based. The portrait, by Massachusetts artist W.H.W. Bicknell, was painted in 1906, three years after Cutter’s death, presumably based on an earlier photograph. Cutter was born in Boston on March 14, 1837, the second son of Caleb and Hannah Bigelow Cutter. His mother died 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 ma…

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…uraged to share relevant ideas and feedback with Ben (bkalish@forbeslibrary.org).   Advisory board structure Background: The Disability Advisory Board is informal with no official membership list and no designated chair. Though it has no official powers and takes no official actions, library management has always been involved and attentive to issues raised by the board.   Other models are possible and the library’s Racial and Social Justice Advis…

The Edible Book Event began in 1999, when co-founder Judith Holmberg, of Santa Monica, California, got the idea during a Thanksgiving dinner with book artists. Since that time it has…places where a LIBRARY hosted the event! For more information, see http://www.books2eat.beatricecoron.com/. The Edible Book in Northampton Walking Dead, created by Cassidy Seaver: *Scariest* For our first five years we held the Edible Book event alternating between Forbes and Lilly Libraries, but have recently gotten so big that we now use a separate venue. Every year the entries are amazing and the ideas so varied. Judges give awards to all entr…

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…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 Coolidge Room. See link for det…

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…es its plethora of opportunities for lifelong learning. According to 2010 U.S. Census data, Northampton was home to nearly 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…