Request a puzzle to pick up at McAuliffe through http://bit.ly/Puzzle_Swap_Request and then take it home! Choose how many pieces you'd prefer the puzzle to contain and bring home some fun. Just like with our in-person Puzzle Swap, you can choose to return it to the Branch when you are finished, or bring back a completely different puzzle (or any extra puzzles you wish to join the swap!).
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories, perhaps catch a glimpse of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten or since Kindergarten list. Keep
your library habit going even during shelter in place! Email mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation.
Ages 2-6, all welcome.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Register for the Zoom Link at: http://bit.ly/FPL-Events
A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.
All the ingredients you need to make your own decadent sugar scrub at home! Keep your skin soft as the weather gets colder and dryer.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
Winter is coming, but let’s create some summer vibes by painting and planting your very own rock cactus.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
ALL KITS ARE CURRENTLY RESERVED. IF WE HAVE EXTRAS, THE REGISTRATION FORM WILL OPEN UP AGAIN.
Take & Make Craft: Paint by Stickers
Tuesday November 3 (Ages 8-12)
Includes everything you need to create one fantasy inspired image using stickers. Step 1: Find the sticker. Step 2: Peel the sticker. Step 3: Place the sticker. Add the next, and the next, and watch your enchanting paintings come to life!
All materials are provided in a kit available for curbside pickup starting November 3. Supplies are limited. Please register at https://tinyurl.com/PaintBySticker and schedule a time to pick up your kit.
We'd love to see and share your creations! If you're comfortable, please send us photos of your kids building the kit or after for us to share on our social media.
Dear Edward tells the story of a 14 year old boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash that kills all of the 191 other passengers. Join us for a discussion of this bestseller The New York Times calls “A surprisingly uplifting story, full of hope and dry humor, with an underlying...message about the decency of strangers.”
Please email framinghamlibrarybookgroups2@gmail.com for the Zoom link to join.
Available in our catalog, and as an eBook and Audiobook on Overdrive/Libby.
Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.
If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Register for the Zoom Link at: http://bit.ly/FPL-Events
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories, perhaps catch a glimpse of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten or since Kindergarten list. Keep
your library habit going even during shelter in place! Email mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation.
Ages 2-6, all welcome.
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. David Smailes, Associate Professor, Political Science, Framingham State University
This year has been unlike any other in America, and the presidential election we have just witnessed has been like no other as well. Join us as we discuss the election that just concluded by looking back on the nomination process by the two major parties as well as third party candidates, and some of the reason for the outcome of the election. Looking forward, we’ll also talk about what might come next in American political life.
PLEASE NOTE NEW DAY AND TIME.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry. Poets may discuss their work. If you are new to the group and would like to participate, please email FPLpoetryworkshop@gmail.com.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit. Break up your shelter in place time or take a break from your work from home time with some fun time with your little one, catch a glimpse
of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your child’s 1000 books before Kindergarten (retroactive sign up when we reopen)!
Email us at mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation to join us on Zoom.
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
Presented by Marcy Venezia, CEO, MBA, RN, PMP
Depression is part of the natural ebb and flow of life. If you think it’s a sign of illness you may be missing its benefits. Understanding this rhythm from a spirit, mind and body perspective reveals some surprising healing properties. Experience the healing difference. You will feel better and learn practical skills for managing depression. This class will lift your spirits!
Please email brownbagprogram49@gmail.com by 9am on November 6 to receive the link to the Zoom session.
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to your new Book Buddy. Certified Reading/Therapy Dog Lilah listens as children read aloud from a book of their choice. Each reading appointment is 10 minutes long.
Register at Mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com; leave your email, your child’s name, and your preferred time for the appointment.
You will receive the Zoom link and the time of your appointment in a response email.
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories, perhaps catch a glimpse of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten or since Kindergarten list. Keep
your library habit going even during shelter in place! Email mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation.
Ages 2-6, all welcome.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Register for the Zoom Link at: http://bit.ly/FPL-Events
A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.
MEET THE BLACK COMPOSERS: a Deep Dive Series with Castle of our Skins Part II.
Join the Framingham Public Library and Ashleigh Gordon for a deep dive into the Black composers who have influenced classical music.
Monday November 9, 7pm – Giving Thanks: meet the early pioneers and trailblazers who paved the way for generations to come.
Monday December 14, 7pm – Singing for Freedom: the power of African American spirituals.
Please email framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com for an invite and link to the Zoom session.
All the ingredients you need to make your own decadent sugar scrub at home! Keep your skin soft as the weather gets colder and dryer.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
Winter is coming, but let’s create some summer vibes by painting and planting your very own rock cactus.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
This moving story of a 7-year-old boy who was kidnapped from his home in India, sold to an orphanage and then adopted by a family in the United States is based on a real narrative. As an adult, he confronts his past on a journey of self-discovery.
Led by Linda Goldberg. Please email lgoldberg@minlib.net for the Zoom link to join.
Available in our catalog, and as an eBook on Overdrive/Libby and Hoopla.
The title for our December 8 discussion is The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore.
Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.
If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories, perhaps catch a glimpse of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten or since Kindergarten list. Keep
your library habit going even during shelter in place! Email mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation.
Ages 2-6, all welcome.
PLEASE NOTE NEW DAY AND TIME.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry. Poets may discuss their work. If you are new to the group and would like to participate, please email FPLpoetryworkshop@gmail.com.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit. Break up your shelter in place time or take a break from your work from home time with some fun time with your little one, catch a glimpse
of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your child’s 1000 books before Kindergarten (retroactive sign up when we reopen)!
Email us at mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation to join us on Zoom.
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
Special browsing hour for Seniors only (60 years+) from 9-10am.
Browse carts of books, movies and music set up in our Learning Yard at the Main Library. Staff will be on hand to help you check out your books. Please be advised that masks are required to enter the learning yard and social distancing guidelines will be in place.
Click here to watch anime and chat with fellow Framingham anime lovers!
Grades 6-12
Join us for Bookworm Book Club with Max! Sundays at 2:00 pm for Grades 2-5. Email us to receive an invite to join on Zoom at framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
Sunday, November 15 will discuss The BFG by Roald Dahl. TIME CHANGE FOR 11/15: 2:30-3:30pm
Sunday, November 29 will discuss Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
These books are available on Overdrive/Libby as an ebook and audiobook.
Violinist James Buswell and cellist Carol Ou will perform Handel-Halvorsen’s Passacaglia, Glière’s 8 Pieces for Violin and Cello, op. 39, and Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello, op. 7.
The series is sponsored in part by Middlesex Savings Bank, Metro Credit Union, Brookdale Cushing Park, Roche Bros., Law Office of Framingham Attorney Jeffrey M. Steinberg, St. Mary’s Credit Union, and Friends of the Framingham Library.
Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/framinghamlibrary
YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/framinghampubliclibrary
Request a puzzle to pick up at McAuliffe through http://bit.ly/Puzzle_Swap_Request and then take it home! Choose how many pieces you'd prefer the puzzle to contain and bring home some fun. Just like with our in-person Puzzle Swap, you can choose to return it to the Branch when you are finished, or bring back a completely different puzzle (or any extra puzzles you wish to join the swap!).
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories, perhaps catch a glimpse of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten or since Kindergarten list. Keep
your library habit going even during shelter in place! Email mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation.
Ages 2-6, all welcome.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Register for the Zoom Link at: http://bit.ly/FPL-Events
All the ingredients you need to make your own decadent sugar scrub at home! Keep your skin soft as the weather gets colder and dryer.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
Winter is coming, but let’s create some summer vibes by painting and planting your very own rock cactus.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
ALL KITS ARE CURRENTLY RESERVED. IF WE HAVE EXTRAS, THE REGISTRATION FORM WILL OPEN UP AGAIN.
Create a silly turkey headband out of construction paper! All materials (except glue) are provided in a kit available for curbside pickup starting November 17. Supplies are limited. (Ages 5-9) Please register at https://tinyurl.com/TurkeyHeadband and schedule a time to pick up your kit.
We'd love to see and share your creations! If you're comfortable, please send us photos of your kids building the kit or after for us to share on our social media.
Jazz guitarist, composer and Berklee professor, John Baboain performs with fellow Berklee professors, bassist Bruce Gertz and vibraphonist Rich Greenblatt.
Sponsored by the Framingham Cultural Council.
Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/framinghamlibrary
YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/framinghampubliclibrary
In 1940, Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, but when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Now 95 years old and telling her story at last, she recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life.
Led by Jillian Holmberg. Please email framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com for the Zoom link to join.
The title for our December 15 discussion is The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
(Available in our catalog, and as an eBook and audiobook on Overdrive/Libby).
Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.
If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Register for the Zoom Link at: http://bit.ly/FPL-Events
A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
(Note 3rd instead of 2nd Wednesday of the month due to Veteran’s Day) (Available in our catalog, and as an eBook on Overdrive/Libby)
Led by Lucy Loveridge. Please email lloveridge@minlib.net to receive the Zoom invitation.
The title for our December 9 discussion is A Million Open Doors by John Barnes.
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories, perhaps catch a glimpse of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten or since Kindergarten list. Keep
your library habit going even during shelter in place! Email mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation.
Ages 2-6, all welcome.
Start your week off right with a half hour of guided meditation and other opportunities for care free relaxation techniques!
Join us the third Thursday of each month as Leslie teaches us valuable techniques to relax and reinvigorate before the stresses of the week take hold. With Love and Gratitude is a nonprofit organization dedicated to service and education.
Email framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com for an invitation and link to the Zoom session.
About Leslie Gabriele:
Leslie founded With Love and Gratitude in 2001. Leslie is a clairaudient, clairsentient, clairempath "energetic catalyst” who is trained in multiple healing modalities. Leslie’s work is guided in the moment, done without attachment.
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, Framingham State University
The great romantic poet William Wordsworth was born 250 years ago in a little market town in northern England. For all his distance from us, in space and time, he is our contemporary, mainly because he boldly chose himself as his great and best subject. His masterpiece is The Prelude, a poem of 13 books in iambic pentameter, never published in his lifetime and often called the finest 19th century English autobiography. He lived the longest of the tragically short-lived Romantic poets like Keats and Shelley, but was the most original. Resisting the influence of his 18th century forebears, he insisted on using the real language of people, and traced his creative life back to his infancy, prefiguring recent child psychology and the work of Freud. The Prelude’s first two books are the best, and this talk will concentrate on these, while summarizing the remainder, which encompass more than half his life. His daring subject is the birth of the creative imagination, as he gives the reader the experience of his childhood and young adulthood with vivid and haunting power. The lecture will also include images of his surroundings in paintings and drawings of his time.
Please email framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com to receive a Zoom link.
PLEASE NOTE NEW DAY AND TIME.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry. Poets may discuss their work. If you are new to the group and would like to participate, please email FPLpoetryworkshop@gmail.com.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit. Break up your shelter in place time or take a break from your work from home time with some fun time with your little one, catch a glimpse
of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your child’s 1000 books before Kindergarten (retroactive sign up when we reopen)!
Email us at mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation to join us on Zoom.
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to your new Book Buddy. Certified Reading/Therapy Dog Lilah listens as children read aloud from a book of their choice. Each reading appointment is 10 minutes long.
Register at Mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com; leave your email, your child’s name, and your preferred time for the appointment.
You will receive the Zoom link and the time of your appointment in a response email.
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories, perhaps catch a glimpse of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten or since Kindergarten list. Keep
your library habit going even during shelter in place! Email mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation.
Ages 2-6, all welcome.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Register for the Zoom Link at: http://bit.ly/FPL-Events
A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.
All the ingredients you need to make your own decadent sugar scrub at home! Keep your skin soft as the weather gets colder and dryer.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
Winter is coming, but let’s create some summer vibes by painting and planting your very own rock cactus.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
Can being vulnerable make you happier? Brené Brown studies human connection—our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. Watch her TEDTalk, “The Power of Vulnerability” and then join us for a discussion. Email us at framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com to receive an invitation and link to the Zoom session.
Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.
If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit. Break up your shelter in place time or take a break from your work from home time with some fun time with your little one, catch a glimpse
of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your child’s 1000 books before Kindergarten (retroactive sign up when we reopen)!
Email us at mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation to join us on Zoom.
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
Thank goodness if we maintain social distancing, keep our mask on and disinfect our hands-on entering, they’ll let us look through shelves of Children’s Books and AV—Graphic Novels, Picture Books, Easy Readers, Chapter Books, Thanksgiving, and other holiday books, books in other languages, movies, even nonfiction for school reports--and pick your own!! Library staff will be on hand to answer questions and help you make selections. Once you've picked an item (or more!!), we'll check the book out using our mobile library setup.
All ages are welcome to attend this event.
Join us for Bookworm Book Club with Max! Sundays at 2:00 pm for Grades 2-5. Email us to receive an invite to join on Zoom at framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
Sunday, November 15 will discuss The BFG by Roald Dahl. TIME CHANGE FOR 11/15: 2:30-3:30pm
Sunday, November 29 will discuss Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
These books are available on Overdrive/Libby as an ebook and audiobook.
Request a puzzle to pick up at McAuliffe through http://bit.ly/Puzzle_Swap_Request and then take it home! Choose how many pieces you'd prefer the puzzle to contain and bring home some fun. Just like with our in-person Puzzle Swap, you can choose to return it to the Branch when you are finished, or bring back a completely different puzzle (or any extra puzzles you wish to join the swap!).
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories, perhaps catch a glimpse of your friends on the gallery screen, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten or since Kindergarten list. Keep
your library habit going even during shelter in place! Email mcauliffechildrensroom@gmail.com to receive an invitation.
Ages 2-6, all welcome.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Register for the Zoom Link at: http://bit.ly/FPL-Events
A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.
All the ingredients you need to make your own decadent sugar scrub at home! Keep your skin soft as the weather gets colder and dryer.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
Winter is coming, but let’s create some summer vibes by painting and planting your very own rock cactus.
ALL KITS RESERVED
Grades 6-12
