Is Cambridge construction getting Worcester?
The long arm of the City of Worcester stretches all the way to construction at the O’Connell Library in East Cambridge.
Cathy Park Hong has more than ‘Minor Feelings’ to share in a library author conversation Monday
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong comes to the Cambridge Public Library on Monday – online – for a conversation with Harvard’s Courtney Sato about her “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.”
Attend meetings on reparations, name changes, police technology and aging elementary schools
Public meetings this week look at reparations through cannabis revenue, name changes to the Agassiz neighborhood and Central Square branch library, police surveillance technology that worries civil libertarians, aging elementary schools, tree tear-downs and much more.
Thinking big at Central Square’s library branch imagines a housing tower and replacing garage
The Central Square branch of the Cambridge Public Library was approved Monday for a study of its space needs, but city councillors say staff needs to think bigger – such asbuilding a tower of public housing with the library on its lower floors. Maybe even expanding to the neighboring parking garage.
Attend meetings on buying land around Alewife, keeping options for remote speaking and more
Public meetings this week look at buying land in Alewife, updating green space, keeping options for remote speaking at City Council and School Committee meetings, a boutique hotel proposal and improvements to The Port neighborhood.
Libraries’ slow reopening locks out residents who need to escape heat wave, councillors say
City officials have been feeling the heat about reopening the public library system after a long coronavirus shutdown but can accelerate the process only so much despite the actual, 90-degree heats of the past few days, city councillors learned.
Main Library reopens its doors in a limited way, with timing of full return and expansions hazy
The Cambridge Main Library has reopened its doors for people to browse five days a week, with no limit on how many can be inside or how long they can stay. One catch in this “Library Express” that began Wednesday is that there’s nowhere to sit.
In deciding to keep its library buildings closed, Cambridge chose safety for staff and residents
Could the staff of Cambridge’s public libraries have been doing more in recent months? Should the main library have opened earlier? During a global pandemic, the city chose safety first.
Taxpayers need a real library reopening date
If casinos, bookstores, private coworking spaces, gyms, yoga studios and countless other for-profit businesses (many of which are much less safe than a library) were able to figure out reopenings long before now, why can’t a well-funded public service such as Cambridge’s public libraries?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. rejected us in 1890 – but we’re cool with it. See library archives May 13
There are letters from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere and Margaret Fuller in the archives of the Cambridge Public Library, and now one from 1890 by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – and library staff is delighted, even if the letter itself is a bit of a dis.
