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 Stree 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.
2021-2022 Programs
The Library reopened in June, 2021. The Library's Community Room will be usable again for in-person meetings beginning in September, 2021.
Some of our programs may be offered online via Zoom teleconferencing. We will try to keep you informed about our programs by means of this web site and the Friends email list.
Our 2021-2022 program schedule:
- Sunday, October 17, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Needham author Daniel Barbarisi on his new book, "Chasing the Thrill". (Zoom presentation.)
- Sunday, November 14, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Program: tentative. Speaker: TBA.
- Sunday, November 21, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Program: tentative. Speaker: TBA.
- Sunday, January 9, 2022, 2:00 p.m. Native American mystery author David Weiden on his novel, "Winter Counts". (Zoom presentation.)
- Sunday, February 6, 2022, 2:00 p.m. Professor Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College, "Slavery in the North".
- Sunday, February 27 or March 6, 2022, 2:00 p.m. Program: tentative. Speaker: TBA.
- Sunday, March 27, 2022, 2:00 p.m. Brian O'Donovan, host of WGBH's "A Celtic Sojourn", and musician Lindsay O'Donovan, "A Short History of Ireland through Song".
- Sunday, April 3 or April 10, 2022, 2:00 p.m. Brian O'Donovan and friends, "An Irish Literary Salon".
- Sunday, May 1, 2022, 2:00 p.m. Karen Mayney-Brodek, Emerald Necklace Consesrvancy, "Olmsted's Legacy".
- Sunday, June 12, 2022, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Annual meeting and program. City planner Jeff Speck, "The Future of the Suburbs".
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.