Happy holidays! The Malden Public Library will be closed from Wednesday, December 24rd, until Sunday, December 28th. Make sure to pick up all your books, movies, and holds by 9pm on Tuesday, December 23rd! While we’re closed, you’re still able to access e-books, magazines, and audiobooks on Libby, as well as movies and shows on Kanopy and biblio+. We will reopen at 9am on Monday, December 29th.
Just in time for the new year, we have one new and one returning resource coming to the Malden Public Library!
“Educate Station content is created by a team of experienced and passionate educators from across the United States. Our educators bring vast subject-matter expertise, teaching credentials, and many years of experience as classroom teachers and curriculum developers. Through the content we create, we aim to provide ready-to-use, hands-on activities for kids to do at home or at school. The Educate Station team is committed to inspiring joyful learning and supporting kids, teachers, and parents.”
Educate Station provides a large number of free lesson plans and worksheets for students from Pre-K through 5th grade, aligned to state and national standards. Ideal for learners who need a little extra practice at home, or for caregivers who are choosing to homeschool.
To access Educate Station from home, you will need to use the link above and enter your library card number. If you would like to access Educate Station from one of the library computers, you can use the link above, without entering a library card number. Using either method will require that you create an Educate Station account.
“Transparent Language Online provides an effective and engaging experience for language learners looking to build their vocabulary, practice their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and maintain what they learn. With courses and supplemental resources in 110+ languages, Transparent Language Online can be accessed anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.”
Transparent Language was previously available to Malden Public Library card holders through state funding, and is now available again! One fantastic feature is their American Citizenship Test materials, which have been updated to reflect changes made to the test in 2025. To access Transparent Languages, click the link above, select “Sign up”, enter your library card number, and get started creating an account.
As the weather gets colder, now is the perfect time to pick up some new crafting hobbies (especially if you’re thinking of making some of your own homemade holiday gifts as well)! In case you didn’t know, the Malden Public Library offers several great resources to help you get started. From crafting websites with thousands of videos, to knitting kits and sewing machines, check out what we’ve got to offer!
“Craftsy is an online resource for all creative makers, where you can find everything you need – from basic instruction to advanced techniques. It’s a community of enthusiastic makers, from quilters and sewers, to cake decorators and painters, wanting to create beautiful things and express their creativity.
You can access Craftsy by clicking HERE, selecting “Boston Public Library”, and entering your library card barcode number (without spaces) and your 4-digit pin number.
“Creativebug.com has thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists. Creativebug is the number one inspirational resource for DIY, crafters, and makers.”
You can access Creativebug by clicking HERE above, entering your library card barcode number (without spaces) and your 4-digit pin number, and creating a free account.
Want to get crafting, but don’t have the equipment? Check out our Library of Things, where Malden residents with a library card in good standing can borrow a number of items for free. To see crafting items in particular, filter by category, select “Crafting/Cooking” and click “Apply Filter”.
For the Thanksgiving holiday, the library will be closing at 12:30pm on the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 26, and will be closed for the day on Thursday, Nov. 27. The library will be re-open for regular hours on Friday and Saturday, and be open from 9am-6pm. Happy Thanksgiving!
The Malden Public Library will be closed on Tuesday, Nov. 11 2025, in honor of Veterans Day and those who served their country.
The Malden Public Library will resume its usual Saturday hours of 9am-6pm, on Saturday, September 20th. Welcome back!
The Malden Public Library will be showcasing the artwork of Kareemah Abdusamad throughout the month of August. Kareemah has been a fiber artist for years and her journey began with what we often think of as traditional quilts and evolved into more art quilts, even though she now does both.
A reception for the artist will be held on Tuesday August 12th from 7-8pm and the public is welcome to attend!
Tuesday, Aug. 5th from 7-8pm, join us at the library for MYSTERY MAKING with Sisters in Crime New England! In this fun, fast-paced improv game, authors Susan Cory, Toni L.P. Kelner, and John Nardizzi will brainstorm on their feet to create a brand new mystery, using suggestions from the audience! WAS it the butler? It could be up to you!
With “Sisters in Crime New England“.
MEET YOUR AUTHORS:
SUSAN CORY was an award-winning residential architect in Cambridge, MA before she retired to write mysteries full time. She earned a brown belt in karate and visited 100 countries along the way. Her mystery series, beginning with Conundrum, features Iris Reid, also a Cambridge architect, as an amateur sleuth trying to uncover a murderer at her Harvard reunion. Susan found inspiration for starting this series at her own 20th architecture school reunion, not that anyone was killed then. That she knows of.
Her seven books in the series have won praise from Kirkus who calls her sleuth “an appealing and believable hero” with supporting characters who are “outstanding” and “hone this remarkable story.” “Cory gleefully breezes through subplots and twists with a resourceful protagonist at the helm.”
Her 8th book in the series, The Forger’s Daughter, is due out in August 2025.
TONI L.P. KELNER is two authors in one. As Leigh Perry, she writes the Family Skeleton series featuring a walking, talking skeleton named Sid. The series debuted with A Skeleton in the Family. As Toni L.P. Kelner, she’s the author of the eight Laura Fleming mysteries and the three books in the “Where are they now?” series. She also co-edited seven urban fantasy anthologies with NYT bestseller Charlaine Harris. In between novels and anthologies–and under both names–she writes short stories about pirates, PIs, serial killers, zombies, and demonic phone calls. A dozen of her stories were recently collected in her most recent book, The Skeleton Rides a Horse and Other Stories, from Crippen & Landru Publishers. Toni and/or Leigh have been nominated multiple times for the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Derringer, and she has won an Agatha Award for Best Short Story and an RT BOOKreview Career Achievement Award. Her short story “Baby Trap” was selected for the anthology Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024, edited by S.A. Cosby and Steph Cha.
JOHN NARDIZZI is an award-winning writer and investigator. His crime novels have won praise for crackling dialogue and pithy observations of detective work. THE BURDEN OF INNOCENCE earned a 2022 Shamus Award nomination for Best PI Paperback. He speaks and writes about investigations in numerous settings, including World Association of Detectives, Lawyers Weekly, Pursuit Magazine and PI Magazine. His work on innocence cases led to the exoneration Gary Cifizzari and James Watson (he was awarded the Arc of Justice for the Watson case in 2021), as well as million dollar settlements for clients Dennis Maher and the estate of Kenneth Waters, whose story was featured in the film Conviction. Prior to his PI career, he failed to hold any restaurant job for longer than a week. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
Free legal assistance for those with housing concerns, no appointment necessary! Just come by the Malden Public Library between 10am-12pm to speak with an attorney about eviction, financial assistance, affordable housing, etc. Brought to you by the Malden Office of Housing Stability, and held on the 4th Wednesday of every month in Study Room 1. If you have questions, please reach out to (781) 322-9119 ext. 146, or email housingstability@cityofmalden.org.