🎉Congrats to Massachusetts Library Association 📚 Paralibrarian Award winners at #MassLib2024 !
🏆Inés Gonzalez-Romero, Outstanding Library Support Staff (@WatertownPubLib,📷)
🏆Bridget Cooley, Library Support Staff Advocate (@PollardLibrary)

📸: Jamie Kallestad, WFPL

✨Commissioner Joyce Linehan discusses the impact of libraries and library construction in this article from Dorchester Reporter, supporting the Governor's #NewBondForBuildingLibraries

View the article at 🔗 dotnews.com/2024/let-s-con…

🌟 #ThisWeek don't miss Mass Center for the Book's #MassKidsLitFest 2024!

👀 See the full festival calendar at 🔗 makidslitfest.org/festival-calen…!

#CenterForTheBook #ChildrensBooks #PublicLibraries #MALibraries

✨We’re all set up and ready to go for #MassLib2024 !

Have questions about Construction, State Aid, or E-Rate? Check our booth schedule at 🔗 mblc.state.ma.us/for/mla.php!

🎉 Attending #MassLib2024 ? Visit us in the Exhibit Hall at booth 33!

👀 See some of our giveaways, check the staff schedule, or learn about our raffle at 🔗 mblc.state.ma.us/for/mla.php!

📸 credit: Commissioner Karen Traub

#MALibraries #LibrariesinMA

📚👀 What have you been reading in #April ? Find your next read with a library eCard: 🔗libraries.state.ma.us/books-and-eboo…

Here's what some of the MBLC Commissioners are #reading :
📖Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
📖Fen, Bog, & Swamp by Annie Proulx
📖The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

🎉 Join us in welcoming the New MBLC Director, Maureen Amyot! Maureen will start her new position with the MBLC on July 8, 2024.

For more information, read the press release at 🔗mblc.state.ma.us/news/news-rele…

📸credit: Arthur Illman, Metrowest Daily News

📰 In #LibraryNews , The Washington Post took a 👀look at recent #legislation across the United states regarding #BookBans , #censorship , and removing librarian exemptions from obscenity laws.

Read the full article at 🔗tinyurl.com/librarylegisla…

#PublicLibraries #IntellectualFreedom