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Press releases
- The Hive Makerspace to Open at the Main Library , June 2021
- Talented Student Designers Create Logos for The Hive Makerspace, June 2021
- Library to Virtually Host Authors Charles Yu and Hoa Nguyen, June 2021
- Cambridge Public Library Launches Summer Reading for Everyone , June 2021
- Main Library reopens with Library Express Services, May 2021
- Library Acquires Historic Oliver Wendell Holmes Letter, May 2021
- Boudreau Branch to Offer Contactless Holds Pickup Service, April 2021
- Maria McCauley Elected President of the Public Library Association, April 2021
- Ta-Nehisi Coates to Open Voices for Justice Series, February 2021
- City’s Black History Month Event to Feature Acclaimed Authors Danielle Evans and Kim McLarin, January 2021
- Cambridge Public Library Offers Remote Printing Service, February 2021
- Kiese Laymon to Speak at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Event, February 2021
- Ambassador Nicholas Burns to Speak about US Foreign Policy, January 2021
- Takeout Technology Service Expanded to Branch Locations, December 2020
- Groundbreaking Augmented Reality Exhibit to Open in Joan Lorentz Park, November 2020
- Fall Schedule for Contactless Holds Pickup Service, September 2020
- Fine Free Pilot Program, August 2021
- Mobile Hotspots now Available for Checkout, August 2020
- Kids Books to Go Event August 8 at Valente Branch Library Additional August Dates also Planned, August 2020
- Kids Books to Go scheduled for August 3 at Boudreau Branch Library and August 8 at the Valente Branch Library, August 2020
- Communal Reading of the Declaration of Sentiments and UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, August 2020
- Holds Pickup Service to begin at the Central Square Branch Returns Service to begin at all Branches, August 2020
- Checkout Library Technology, August 2020
- CPL Book Giveaways: Keep Reading and Keep Learning, August 2020
- Communal Reading of Frederick Douglass’s Speech and the U.S. Declaration of Independence on July 2, July, 2020
- Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell to Speak at Curious George Lecture, April 2020
- Cambridge Public Library donates books to free lunch sites and temporary shelter at War Memorial, May 2020
- Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy to Speak at the Cambridge Public Library, February 2020
- Author Emily Bernard to Speak at 44th Annual MLK Day Celebration at the Central Square Branch Library, January 2020
- Live Mural Painting at the Library, January 2020
- Geneticist Eric Lander to Speak at the Main Library, November 2020
- Acclaimed Author Nuruddin Farah to Speak at the Main Library, October 2020
- Valente Branch Library to Open, October, 2020
- Sociologist Ruha Benjamin to Speak at the Main Library, September 2020
- Spoon Symbolizing Opioid Crisis to be Displayed at the Main Library, September 2020
- Extended Branch Hours Maintained at O'Connell Branch Library
- Live Mural Painting at the Library
- Extended Branch Hours Maintained at O'Connell Branch Library
- 3, 2, 1… Blast Off to Summer Reading at the Cambridge Public Library! (June 12, 2019)
- Amulet Creator, Kazu Kabuishi, to Deliver Third Annual Curious George Lecture
- The Cambridge Public Library is delighted to announce the launch of a new series of talks that will explore breakthroughs in technology and their impact on society as part of its Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) programming
- The Cambridge Public Library is pleased to announce that the Cambridge Public Library Foundation, with support from the Margret and H.A. Rey Curious George Fund, has commissioned a mural in the Children’s Room at the Main Library
- The Cambridge Public Library is delighted to announce that the President of the American Library Association (ALA), Loida Garcia-Febo, will visit Cambridge on Thursday, October 18, 2018
- Picture Book Trio Launches 'Think Big' Tour, Tour Finishes at Cambridge Public Library (November 2, 2017)
- The Cambridge Public Library to host a participatory reading of the Constitution on Democracy Day, Saturday, May 20th. (May 9, 2017)
- Cambridge Public Library announces acquisition of Hoopla and Flipster - two new ways to access media for free on your computer, tablet, or phone. (April 10, 2017)
- The Cambridge Public Library and TheEditorial.com to host panel We the People: Local Voices Ask What's Next on March 23rd (March 1, 2017)
- Cambridge Public Library launches annual Margret and H. A. Rey Curious George Lecture Series, with Newbery award-winner, Kate DiCamillo, this March.(January 13, 2017)
- Dream Big: The Future of Public Libraries (September 28, 2016)
- 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Launch (August 30, 2016)
- City of Cambridge names new Director of Libraries, Maria Taesil Hudson McCauley (June 21, 2016)
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