Free Fun Fridays!

Once again, the Highland Street Foundation is offering free admissions on Fridays to a variety of Museums and Cultural Attractions in Massachusetts throughout the summer.  They begin on Friday, June 28 and continue until Friday, August 30. The places include the Stone and Franklin Zoos, Boston Children’s Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, and Hancock Shaker Village.  The list is extensive.    The events are totally free, except for parking and there is no ticket, ID, coupon, or password required (with the exception of the Boston Harbor Island ferries, the New Repertory Theatre and Reagle Music Theatre performances).
Click here for more info. 

 

Law Matters

Don't know an extrajudicial confession from a plenary confession? Look it up in Black's Law Dictionary. It's in Reference on the top floor, call number REF 340.03 2004 Black's.

Learning English? Pressed for time?

For the days when you have only a few minutes to work on learning English, we recommend the online site: Merriem Websters Learners Dictionary with their daily "Word of the Day" and fun vocabulary quizzes. Their Facebook and Twitter accounts are another good way to squeeze in a little time every day to improve your English.

New Resume Database

We have recently added a new resume tool to our list of Databases!
Optimal Resume will help you create the best first impression as a job seeker.  Create a resume, write an outstanding cover letter and manage your interviews, all in one place. You can even create a video resume.  Link your resume with LinkedIn and Twitter for maximum exposure.
And, the best part - with your Framingham Public Library card,  you can log in and use it from home!

Always Available Travel E-books

Just in time for vacation planning, one of the newest additions to Minuteman's Digital Media Catalog is a collection of 25 always available Lonely Planet e-Books. Plan your trip to New York City, Washington DC, the Grand Canyon, Morocco, Moscow or more.

Download these before you go and have all the information that you need (including maps) on your e-reader, smartphone or tablet.

To see a list of the always available Lonely Planet titles:

1. Go to http://digital.minlib.net/
2. In the Featured Collections section (right column) click Always Available
3. Do a keyword search for Lonely Planet.

 

Still need help?

Call the Reference Desk at (508) 532-5570

April is National Poetry Month!

That's right, it's National Poetry Month . Live on the edge-- read a poem, or write one. Wax poetic, or just have fun.  Here are 100 ways to celebrate: http://selfmadescholar.com/b/2009/04/01/100-ways-to-celebrate-national-poetry-month/.

From Shakespeare to Ginsberg, and Dr. Seuss too,
Somewhere there is a poem for you.
You don't like poetry, so you say.
But try it, try it, and you may.

Come upstairs and see our display, 
or ask Reference to help you find something today.

13th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards

The Must-Read Books for 2013 were announced on March 22, 2013. The award winners in each of the categories will be announced in April.

 

Fiction:

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
Cascade by Maryanne O’Hara
Defending Jacob by William Landay
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

Nonfiction:

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt
Brothers by George Howe Colt
The Choke Artist by David Yoo
Clover Adams, A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra
In Pursuit of Giants by Matt Rigney
To Free a Family by Sydney Nathans

Poetry:

The Bees Are Waiting by Karina Borowicz
Darkening the Grass by Michael Miller
Life in the Second Circle by Michael Cantor
Place by Jorie Graham
Shortly Thereafter by Colin Halloran
What Is Amazing by Heather Christle

Children's/Young Adult Literature:

Ocean Sunlight by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman
Red Thread Sisters by Carol Antoinette Peacock 
Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker
There Goes Ted Williams: the Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived by Matt Tavares 
We’ve Got a Job: the 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson