Friends of the Library Programs
The Friends of the Library plan and sponsor a number of public programs of enrichment each year. These include lectures, author readings, demonstrations, performances, and recitals. All programs are free and open to the public.
In addition, the Friends sponsor several programs each year for children.
In past years, most of our programs have been in the Library’s Community Room. Click here for directions to the Library. If you enter the Library through the main entrance from the Rosemary Street parking lot, the Community Room is just inside the main entrance doors to the right. If you enter the Library through the Highland Avenue entrance, the Community Room is on the lower level on the opposite side of the building.
2022-2023 Programs
Some of our programs may be offered online via Zoom videoconferencing. You can check whether programs will be presented at the library's Community Room in person or on Zoom, and register to attend, at https://needhamlibrary.org/events/. We will try to keep you informed about our programs by means of this web site and the Friends email list.
Programs are free to all and registration is required.
Our 2022-2023 program schedule:
- Sunday, October 23, 2022, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Film Producer/Director Eric Stange and Team, "Pony Boys".
- Sunday, November 6, 2022, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Author Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop.
- Sunday, January 8, 2023, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Author Catherine Marenghi: Ancestors and Destiny.
- Sunday, February 5, 2023, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Gilda Barabino, President of Olin College of Engineering: Engineering for Everyone.
- Sunday, March 26, 2023, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Marsha Bemko, Producer: "The Antiques Roadshow Story".
- Sunday, April 26, 2023, 7:30 p.m., 50th anniversary celebration: An Evening with Doris Kearns Goodwin.
- Sunday, June 11, 2023, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Annual meeting and program. Author Stephanie Schorow: The Cocoanut Grove and Other Great Fires of Boston.
Programs in prior years
- Programs in 2004-2005.
- Programs in 2005-2006.
- Programs in 2006-2007.
- Programs in 2007-2008.
- Programs in 2008-2009.
- Programs in 2009-2010.
- Programs in 2010-2011.
- Programs in 2011-2012.
- Programs in 2012-2013.
- Programs in 2013-2014.
- Programs in 2014-2015.
- Programs in 2015-2016.
- Programs in 2016-2017.
- Programs in 2017-2018.
- Programs in 2018-2019.
- Programs in 2019-2020.
- Programs in 2020-2021.
- Programs in 2021-2022.