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The Best One Dish Suppers

This cookbook is a collection of recipes from Americanโ€™s Test Kitchen that are all made in one pan or one pot or a dutch oven or a slow cooker. There…cooker. There are 180 recipes with 169 illustrations and tips, tricks and helpful hints accompany the step by step recipes. The recipes include stews, soups, casseroles, pot pies and stir-frys. Several vegetarian options are also included. This cookbook is great to try out some new twists on comfort foods and cool weather favorites….

Children’s and YA Department Staff Picks

Click on the book cover images in the PDFs below to view the books in the CWMARS catalog.ย  2024 January 2024 February 2024 March 2024 2023 Best of 2023December 2023November…22 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 2021 Best of 2021 December 2021 | page 2 November 2021 October 2021 | page 2 September 2021 | page 2 August 2021 July 2021 2020 May 2020 February 2020 January 2020 2019 Best of 2019 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 2018 Best of 2018 December 2018 November 2018…

Louis C.K. : Hilarious

If you are easily offended by delicate or obscene subject matter, this 2010 concert film is, clearly, blatantly, spectacularlyโ€ฆ not for you. Come to think of it, if you are…ce of modern day America, he saves his strongest contempt for himself. The best stand-up is often that which lays bare the desperation and pain of our brief and ridiculous moment on earth and allows us to laugh at the most fragile and childish of our own instincts. At its best this film recalls some of the finest moments of his heroes, Pryor’s ability to make us laugh at his most painful moments and Carlin’s ability to dissect the absurdity of his…

Schedule a Group Tour or Librarian Visit

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…talk in your classroom. Group 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 Hi…

Forbes Library Awarded Disabilities Grant

October 8, 2014 โ€” Forbes Library, the public library in downtown Northampton, has been awarded a two year grant to improve library services to people with disabilities. The project is being funded through the…public programming so as to enhance services to patrons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or have vision difficulties. The library will also create a new disability advisory board to increase communication between the library and people with disabilities. A recent American Community Survey estimated that 7.2% of Northampton residents live with a disability including 5.3% with hearing difficulty and 5.7% with a vision difficulty. Forbes Library has m…

Serving People with Disabilities Survey

August 17, 2016 โ€” Serving People with Disabilities Survey This survey has closed We are finishing a two year grant to improve library services to people with disabilities. The project is being funded through…public programming so as to enhance services to patrons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or have vision difficulties. Your answers to this survey will help us to continue to improve services to people with disabilities and to evaluate our performance so far. This survey is available in large print format at Forbes Library and the Northampton Senior Center. To have a copy of this survey mailed to you or to request this survey in other formats, pleas…

Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board โ€“ Minutes for January 25, 2023

Minutes Forbes Library Accessibility Advisory Board Minutes Date 25 January 2023 Time 3PM Attending Mary Biddle, Library Staff Lisa Downin, Library Director Ben Kalish, Library Staff Molly Moss, Assistant Director…ifficult acoustics. Lisa mentioned an acoustics company recently did a room-by-room analysis of the library, including the Community Room. The results of their report may inform future improvements. Ben mentioned the improved sound system, including the assistive listening system, and acoustic improvements made during a past renovation, but knows that there is much ambient noise and still room for improvement. Mary Jo mentioned that some people ha…

Free for Northampton Residents

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Provided by Forbes Library and available remotely to Northampton residents with a CW MARS card. Want help using this resource? Contact us.

Library Cards

A library card is required to borrow most library materials and to place holds for those materials. When you get a library card you also get a library account you…pired for more than four years it may be deleted. Renew your account. Replacement cards The first replacement for a lost card is free. Additional replacements cost $1. For help contact the Circulation Department, 413-587-1011 ext2 or circulation@forbeslibrary.org. Notes 1 Any resident of a Massachusetts community which is certified by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners is entitled to a free library card….

Libraries receiving many fewer tax forms from the IRS

January 16, 2015 โ€” The IRS has reduced its Tax Forms Outlet Program which provided free tax forms to the public at post offices and public libraries. In an email to participating organizations, the…hich tax forms are currently available at the library visit our tax information page or call the reference desk at 413-587-1012….

Living Books, October 5

September 23, 2019 โ€” On Saturday, October 5, from 10am-2pm, Forbes Library and Northampton Connects will host a community-building event in the Reading Room on the 1st floor. Living Books is an event in…ir lives and have shaped how they identify with the world, during brief one-on-one conversations. People who have volunteered to share their story as a “living book” will be available for “check out” by event attendees, who will be given constructive prompts to help begin or gently guide the conversation. Conversations will last 20 minutes and “books” will have 10 minutes to break between conversations. The purpose of Living Books is to provide a…

Forbes Library, Historic Northampton and Wistariahurst host States of Incarceration, a traveling exhibition

March 1, 2017 โ€” STATES OF INCARCERATION A NATIONAL DIALOGUE OF LOCAL HISTORIES March 13-30, Forbes Library, 20 West St, Northampton, MA and Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge St., Northampton, MA Opening reception: March 13,…Museum with an opening reception on March 1 from 6-8 PM. Website: http://pv-soi.org / Programs and events: https://pv-soi.org/programs/ States of Incarceration was created by the New School’s Humanities Action Lab, a coalition of 500 university students and formerly incarcerated individuals from 20 cities, including students and faculty from UMass Amherst Public History Program and several local community organizers. It explores the history of inc…

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