Library Service Updates

Welcome Back, MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center!
Over the fall, the Career Center will add services at the library to job seekers. The current schedule is:

-Mondays 10 am -1 pm: Career Center Registration & Job Seeker Services
-Wednesdays 1:30-2:30 pm: Job Readiness Workshops

You can also access virtual and on-demand workshops on the Career Center's website.

Lost Women of Azalea Court Book Launch

Wednesday, September 14, 2022,
6:30 pm
Forbes Library and Broadside Bookshop present the launch of The Lost Women of Azalea Court by Ellen Meeropol in conversation with Lisa Downing, Forbes Library director.

Books will be available for sale.
Attendance is limited to 50.

Welcoming Week:
September 9-18, 2022

Forbes Library is celebrating Welcoming Week in collaboration with the Center for New Americans and the International Language Institute this year. Launched in 2012 by Welcoming America and its members, Welcoming Week provides a platform for communities to foster mutual understanding between immigrants and non-immigrants, and a sense of belonging for all residents.

Together with the Center for New Americans, Forbes Library is pleased to launch an immigrant oral history project on the occasion of this year’s Welcoming Week. Center for New Americans and Forbes Library will collaborate to record the stories of several of Center for New Americans’ immigrant students and alumni with support from Northampton Open Media. These recordings will become part of the library's archives in the Hampshire Room for Local History. In addition to the oral history project, Forbes Library honors Welcoming Week with a display of books by and about immigrants for adults and children, as well as an interactive world map inviting people to indicate their or their ancestors’ place of origin.

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