The Franklin Public Library in Franklin, MA is historically significant because it is credited with being the first public library in the United States!
The Library has a collection of over 87,000 items available for public use in the library or for circulation. Included in this collection are print and audio books, DVD and VCR format movies, music CDs, video games, and subscriptions to over 200 magazines and newspapers. All free to library cardholders! The Library is a member of two regional library networks allowing cardholders to obtain materials from other libraries in the eastern MA region.
The posts below will introduce you to the interesting history of the Franklin Public Library, the beautiful structure it calls home, and some of the invaluable services Library performs for the Franklin, MA community.
From the category archives:
The Library has a first-class Children’s Room featuring a comprehensive collection of books, magazines, video games, and DVD movies.
There are always charming decorations throughout the Children’s Department and plenty of toys, games and puppets that children can play with.
The Library sponsors frequent preschool story times and family entertainments thought the year.
With program titles including “Mother Goose [...]
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The Franklin Public Library in Franklin, MA is generally recognized as the first public library in the United States.
The Franklin Collection of books formed the original nucleus of the Franklin Library. Books were exceedingly rare and costly in the Americas, even at the end of the 18th Century.
On November 20th, 1790, a Franklin town meeting [...]
If you haven’t visited Franklin’s Public Library recently, you’re in for an eye opening experience: there’s a simply beautiful new reading room on the library’s lower level!
What was a mostly unused, locked afterthought has now become a striking enhancement to one of the most impressive municipal properties owned by the Town of Franklin, Massachusetts.
On of [...]
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Young children will enjoy visiting the Public Library in Franklin, Massachusetts. In addition to an attractive and well-stocked children’s room, the Library offers plenty of activities for the little ones.
Click on the image above or the hotlink to download the spring 2010 program guide for the Franklin, MA Public Library.
Story-telling and fun activities
In addition to [...]
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Many public libraries in Massachusetts sponsor museum pass programs. These pass programs are a very valuable public benefit you should know about. They allow users to inexpensively attend cultural and civic events that perhaps they would not have been able to experience otherwise.
The excellent museum program at the Franklin, MA Public Library gives you discounted [...]
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