Beverly Public Library

All branches of the library will be closed from Friday, July 3 through Sunday, July 5 in observance of Independence Day.
If you have reserved a museum pass for a day we are not open, please come by earlier in the week to pick it up.

The Beverly Public Library will celebrate it’s annual summer reading program by presenting a performance by Parents’ Choice award winning performers Davis Bates and Roger Tincknell.  The program, A Constellation of Stories and Songs, will involve the audience in a variety of cultural traditions, sharing stories and songs about the sun, moon, stars, and more. This participatory concert is a delight for all ages. Hear how the stars came to be in the sky, why the bear missed the train, sing a dancing dog to sleep with a starry lullaby, and be prepared to sing, move and dance. There will even be a short lesson in how to play the spoons.
The performance will take place at the Beverly Public Library on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, starting at 2:00 pm. Be sure not to miss this wonderful family oriented entertainment event.
This performance funded, in part, by a grant from the Beverly Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

This July the Beverly Public Library will host a special exhibit of quilts by the Garden City Quilters, a North Shore quilting group. The exhibit will include quilts that show the history of the Garden City Quilters, the charities the quilters have supported over the years, and will include a 1930’s quilt and a Christmas challenge quilt. The exhibit will be located in the Sohier Room on the first floor of the main library.

Users of our collection of e-audiobooks from OverDrive know that some of the titles work with iPod® and some do not. Now almost all of the titles will play on an iPhone™ and the iPod®. Just upgrade your OverDrive Media Console™ and in just a few clicks, send audiobooks to your Windows-formatted iPod using the built-in Transfer Wizard! The ‘Plays on’ icons at this site indicate whether titles are compatible with Apple® devices.
To install or upgrade OMC for Windows v3.2, click here. For more information on transferring WMA Audiobooks to your iPod, click here. For a list of iPod-friendly audiobooks, click here.

Join Tony Toledo, Karen Chace, and Norah Dooley on Wednesday, July 8 for the Story Train journey to Rockport to hear some great stories and picnic with friends, family and children from all over the North Shore. We’ll meet at the Beverly Depot in time to catch the 10:53am train. Please bring your train fare, picnic lunch and blanket and your family. Once we arrive in Rockport, we’ll walk to the Meadowbrook Meadow with hundreds of other North Shore children and parents for an afternoon of stories, fun, and laughter. Please plan to return on the 2pm train. Interested families can leaving their names in the Children’s Room, but registration is not required. Program will be canceled if it rains so please call the library to confirm.