Welcome to Massachusetts Libraries

⌛️ Time is running out to participate in the @masstechcollaborative BEAD Challenge!

As Community Anchor Institutions, #MALibraries can:

✅ Check that their locations are accurate
✅ Test internet speeds
✅ Assist patrons with filing challenges

Learn more about the BEAD Challenge at 🔗 the link in the bio!

Libraries are #DigitalEquity champions! Whether your library is part of a municipality or community nonprofit, you have a voice for the future of broadband access in the Commonwealth.

The @masstechcollaborative BEAD Challenge runs from 6/20/24-7/20/24, giving libraries an opportunity to report unserved and underserved areas in their community. Learn more about the BEAD Challenge at 🔗 the link in the bio.

Register your library as a community anchor institution at 🔗 the link in the bio. Multiple accounts can be created under the same institution name.

📚 To combat #BookBans, some libraries have declared themselves book sanctuaries. American Libraries Magazine explores some of these libraries across the country in their latest issue.

Read the full article: at 🔗 the link in the bio

#IntellectualFreedom #FreePeopleReadFreely

📚👀 What did you read in #May? Find your next read with a library eCard: 🔗 https://libraries.state.ma.us/books-and-ebooks

Here`s what some of the MBLC Commissioners & Staff were #reading:

📖Gender Queer by redgoldsparks
📖Happiness Falls by @angiekimask
📖Mister Hockey by @liarileyauthor
📖Star Wars Visions: Ronin by @emcandon

✨Please join us in welcoming two new staff at the MBLC! Al Hayden is our new Library Advisory Specialist and Jessica Branco Colati is our new Preservation Specialist. We`re excited to have them on board and they look forward to serving #MassachusettsLibraries!

✨🏒 Commissioner Linehan discusses the law & policy path from the fight for #TitleIX to the @thepwhlofficial in the CommonWealth Beacon! Read the full article at 🔗 the link in the bio.

🎆 We`re rooting for you, @pwhl_boston! 🎆

#PWHL #PWHLFinals #PWHLBoston

📸: Commissioner Linehan, Senator Warren, & Commissioner Conrad at the March 10, 2024 Boston vs New York game

✒️ We don`t condone writing in #library books, but I guess we can make an exception for 17th century poets. 😉

See the full @bbc article about Paradise Lost poet John Milton`s notes found in a book at the University of Texas at 🔗 the link in the bio

👷‍♀️🚧 @tiltonlibrary`s renovation and construction project has officially begun! Commissioner Traub traveled to Deerfield to help celebrate alongside state and local officials.

Read more about the project in our press release at 🔗 the link in the bio