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We’re excited about all the possibilities we can share with you through our new website!

The new site makes it possible for us to react to important news and local events quickly and provide you with crucial and reliable updates, links, and sources for more information simply and easily. We know you rely on us for the latest, and best, sources of information, and I know that our crackerjack librarians are experts at providing that important service to you. So I hope you’ll plan to visit our new website often, make it a part of your online life, and always find a friendly and responsive presence however you choose to visit us at the Reading Public Library!

~ Ruth Urell, Library Director

The library will be closed all day tomorrow for Staff Day.

We appreciate the loyal support of the Reading community and the Friends of the Reading Public Library for sponsoring this annual day of growth.  We always learn a lot and it’s great to have a little time to catch up with new trends and see the bigger picture in the library field.

Probably the most important thing for all of us is to spend some time together, developing our understanding and the connections to each other that we lean on all through the year. While it may not always be obvious, the library is a complicated place, a lot goes on behind the scenes, and our hours of service are long and continuous – 64 hours a week,  six or seven days a week year round, season through season – so we greatly appreciate this rare opportunity to stop, take stock, and renew ourselves.  Thank you all for making it possible!

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What are you doing this Sunday?    You could drop by the library, catch a  free concert at 3 o’clock,   take in the Friends’ travel photo exhibit featuring local photographers, vote for your favorite photo, and read the Sunday paper in a comfortable armchair – right here!  Did I mention that it’s all free?     Hope you can join us!

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We’re proud to announce that Allison Sloan has been named Paraprofessional of the Year by Library Journal.

Sloan received the national award for her advocacy on behalf of Paralibrarians working in Massachusetts’ libraries:    “Sloan has worked to highlight the valuable talents and contributions of paralibrarians to the library community (and) she has also reached out to connect them with librarians, library directors, and trustees to strengthen libraries.”  (John N. Berry III – Library Jourral, 2/23/10)

The Reading Public Library extends warm congratulation to Allison for her achievement and also wishes to recognize the essential contribution paralibrarians make in providing excellent library service everyday!

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