March 22, 2022 — Links 413 Free Seeds Resources Seeds of sustainability (Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 10, 2022) 413 Free Seeds FAQ How does it work? 413 Free Seeds has two Free Seed Box…s and can’t guarantee that seeds are true heirloom varieties. We accept hybrid and GMO seeds as well as non-GMO and heirloom varieties. We rely on donors and volunteers to label their seed packets unless donating from pre-packaged seeds. How do I grow the seeds? Links to growing instructions and other helpful resources are available here: https://tinyurl.com/413FreeSeeds or via QR code on the seed boxes. How do I reach you? Email 413seeds@gmail.co…
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Forbes Staff Member Receives Competitive Award
June 20, 2018 — Dylan Gaffney, Senior Library Assistant at the Forbes Library, has been awarded the 2018 Paralibrarian of the Year award by the Massachusetts Library Association. This competitive annual award is given…f historic photos that he selects from the collections and posts with, well-researched and well-written annotations. [Example: https://www.facebook.com/Forbes.Library/posts/10156212008993184 — reach of almost 4000] These have engaged thousands of viewers and are our most popular online content. He always volunteers to serve on committees, attend community outreach events, mentor new staff members, or help the library reach its mission in any way h…
Reserve a study room or meeting room
Forbes Library offers three meeting rooms. When not required for the use of the library or library related organizations, they may be used by other groups. In addition to the meeting…on or by phone: for the Bak Study room contact the Arts and Music Desk (413-587-1013); for the Watson Room contact the Business Office (413-587-1017). For reservations within 24 hours, please contact us by phone. Additional equipment: when reserving the Watson Room or the Community Room, you can also request the use of the Meeting Owl Pro, a videoconferencing camera useful for hybrid events or meetings. Fee Schedule Policies See the page for each…
Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Policy
FORBES LIBRARY Policy Regarding Ethics and Conflicts of Interest I. Preface Forbes Library was created under the will of Charles W. Forbes, who placed the institution’s care and management in…cing them in the discharge of their duties to the Library, in their Library-related decision-making or otherwise in exchange for any benefit to be received from the Library. IV. Library Personnel General Responsibilities. Library personnel are an important public face of the institution. As such, it is essential that they act honestly, ethically and prudently; perform their duties properly, diligently and with courtesy; preserve the confidentialit…
Well-Behaved Indian Women
Three generations of Indian women living in India, New Jersey, and Manhattan try in vain to do what is expected of them and all fail, in the same year, by…dissatisfaction with her distant husband and her job in a family practice clinic where the bottom line is everything, when a former colleague gets in touch about an amazing opportunity. Mimi is enjoying a peaceful widowhood in her village in India, visiting the local school to teach girls around the edges of what the curriculum offers, when parental complaints bring her to the attention of the superintendent. All three of them face these surprise…
Passage
A clinical psychologist obsessed with near death experiences, Joanna Lander joins forces with Dr. Richard Wright, a neurologist who has come up with a way to manufacture NDEs in the…A clinical psychologist obsessed with near death experiences, Joanna Lander joins forces with Dr. Richard Wright, a neurologist who has come up with a way to manufacture NDEs in the laboratory with the help of a mind-altering drug, but the experiments may yield far more than she ever anticipated when she volunteers to become a test subject in the experiment. This book a a mind-bender….
Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board – Minutes for November 4th 2021
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…well as products brought into the library by the public. The library no longer uses air fresheners in the bathrooms and the custodial staff considers chemical sensitivities when selecting products for use, avoiding added fragrances as much as possible. A future capital improvement will improve natural air flow in the bathrooms which will help as well. Curb cuts A new curb cut was made on the west side of the library near the beginning of the pa…
125 and Counting
January 1, 2019 — by Rich Szlosek With all the festivities that take place between Halloween and New Year’s Day, you likely have not noticed yet another ongoing celebration that is underway in the Northampton…rt exhibits, special events and programs that happen in the building and how beneficial the library is to the life of Northampton. Forbes is open from 9-9 on Monday and Wednesday; 9-5 on Friday and Saturday; 1-5 on Tuesday and Thursday and closed on Sunday. I hope to see you there soon and, for now, Happy New Year….
All Girls
Layden’s debut novel, set in the fictional all-girls Atwater boarding school, is filled with longstanding traditions, social complexities, shifting alliances, and shocking secrets. The story of an academic year is…s she attends classes, participates in events, and lives her life. A twenty-year-old scandal resurfaces as students arrive to begin the year, and the school’s handling of the situation at the time has lasting effects for the institution itself and the students readers grow to care about over the months. Readers will find themselves thinking about the vividly and compassionately rendered characters long after their chapters end, and considering dec…
The Husband Hour
Brenner (The Forever Summer, 2017) returns with another sun soaked emotional saga. After her NHL-star-turned-Army-Ranger husband Rory was killed in Iraq, Lauren Kincaid spent four years isolated at her family’s…) returns with another sun soaked emotional saga. After her NHL-star-turned-Army-Ranger husband Rory was killed in Iraq, Lauren Kincaid spent four years isolated at her family’s beach house on the Jersey Shore, running 12 miles a day, working at a local restaurant, and avoiding (or possibly wallowing in) grief. Now Lauren’s parents, sister, and nephew have descended en masse for the summer, bringing their own worries and upheaval with them. Matt B…
Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board – Minutes for May 18, 2022
Minutes Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board May 18, 2022 3PM This meeting was on Zoom Present Ben Kalish, Librarian Brian Tabor, Librarian Lisa Downing, Director Laura Bovee Anne Gancarz Keith…online and in person, few of which offered accommodations for Deaf or hard-of-hearing folks. She also spoke about the need for a community group for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing, referencing a group that ceased meeting because of the pandemic. Several attendees offered similar stories and in the discussion that followed some potential paths towards improvement were identified: If Mary Jo or any other member of the community wishes to revive the c…
Susan Stinson
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…the Public Humanist blog (sponsored by the Mass Humanities Council) Writer-In-Residence Susan Stinson wins Lambda Literary Award Susan Stinson writes about the Writer in Residence program on the Library As Incubator Project 5 Ways Libraries Cultivate Community Art on The Huffington Post Susan Stinson on Wikipedia.org Reviews Spider in a Tree Books and Culture: A Christian Review The Concord Monitor (Concord, NH) The Daily Hampshire Gazette (North…
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