Join us on Tuesday, October 18th from 3-4:30 to create beautiful Chinese art & craft items. All materials and instruction will be provided by the Chinese Culture Connection and all are welcome!
Traditional Chinese Arts & Crafts
Join us on Tuesday, October 18th from 3-4:30 to create beautiful Chinese art & craft items. All materials and instruction will be provided by the Chinese Culture Connection and all are welcome!
The Library will be closed on Monday, October 10th in honor of Columbus Day. The Library will open again on Tuesday, October 11th at 9 a.m.
Malden Public Library was so pleased to be given a gift of a new microfilm reader for our local history room by the Piccolo Family Charitable Foundation. The Scanpro 3000 will enable users to produce digital output in multiple forms including pdf, digital word search, resident internet links, and enhanced digital imaging of degraded text and photos. This equipment can currently be found in the best research libraries and universities.
The donation from the Piccolo Family Charitable Foundation was presented to Library Director Dora St. Martin and Library Board of Trustees President John Tramondozzi by C. Henry Kezer, President of the Foundation and Laura Hodgin, Treasurer. The Mary F. Piccolo Foundation was created for the purpose of supporting educational and scholastic enterprises of Malden, Melrose and surrounding communities. The Library and the Malden community thank the Foundation for their generous support.
For more information, please read the article on the City of Malden website.
Photo by City of Malden.
Are you a local writer? Are you interested in joining a collaborative community of committed writers? Are you looking for people to workshop your writing and are you committed to doing the same for others? Are you open minded, respectful, and encouraging to fellow writers and to the writing process?
Then please join The Malden Writers’ Collaborative for their Informational Session on Thursday, October 6th at the Malden Public Library beginning promptly at 7:00 PM. Here we will talk about group expectations, group etiquette, and hear first hand experiences from past members. Interested parties will sign up for the 2016-2017 season at the end of this session. The group will then be closed to additional members until the 2017-2018 season.
Please contact the facilitator, Evangeline Vickery, with any questions at tmwc@evangelinevickery.com.
The Friends of the Malden Public Library will hold a shredding event on Saturday, October 1st at the DPW Yard, 356 Commercial St. from 9 a.m. to noon. For $5/bag, you will get all your materials shredded AND help the Friends of the Library and the Library.
Join us at the Malden Public Library on Friday, August 26 for STEAM in the Art Gallery: Artful Adventures, a hands-on art program with staff from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. There will be two sessions: one at 2:00pm for ages 3-6 and one at 3:00pm for ages 6-10.
Each one-hour session will include a story, hand-on materials, pictures from the Museum’s collections, and an art-making activity.
STEAM in the Art Gallery explores how art and design can enhance the learning process for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Malden Cultural Council, a local agency, funded through the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Join us on Wednesday, August 17th from 8-10 pm for our Family Movie Night “Live on the Lawn”.
We will be showing Zootopia a fun family movie and it will be under the stars, on the beautiful Library lawn on Salem St. This is a free family event, with popcorn included.
From the largest elephant to the smallest shrew, the city of Zootopia is a mammal metropolis where various animals live and thrive. When Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) becomes the first rabbit to join the police force, she quickly learns how tough it is to enforce the law. Determined to prove herself, Judy jumps at the opportunity to solve a mysterious case. Unfortunately, that means working with Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), a wily fox who makes her job even harder. This movie is rated PG.
This Summer at the Malden Public Library young adults read for a combined total of over 2,500 hours, over 154,760 minutes! We had a successful program of events from our YA movie afternoons, craft program, to the very popular Pokemon Go Party. Below are a few photos of those events including Perler Bead creations and our End-Of-The-Summer Reading Party:
It’s vacation time and MPL has added 2 new databases, A to Z World Travel and Global Road Warrior, to our online offerings. These will help with the planning stages of any new trip, as a guide on your mobile device when you travel, as an information gathering spot for students, or a place to learn about culture and business practices for professionals.
A to Z World Travel focuses on world cities, giving tips from clothing sizes and electricity to health and safety and how to save money when visiting.
Global Road Warrior gives a broad overview of many, many countries, including business practices, cultural traditions, holidays and festivals, travel essentials and security briefings.