Please be advised that most of the Library phones are down right now. The Adult Reference desk is able to receive calls at 978-674-4121. Please be brief in your requests and understand that you may have to leave voicemail as this is the only public phone that is accepting calls.
Email is also available for your more involved questions:
Youth Reference - childrenref@lowelllibrary.org
Information Desk (General Reference) - adultref@lowelllibrary.org
Our library’s long running non-fiction book club will meet Thursday, April 4, 2019 from 6:30-7:30PM to discuss Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich. Description from dust jacket: From flying hot-blooded squirrels and diminutive kinglets to sleeping black bears and torpid turtles to frozen insects and frogs, the animal kingdom relies on…Read More
Our library’s long running non-fiction book club will meet Thursday, February 7, 2019 from 6:30-7:30PM to discuss Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin. Description from dust jacket: The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin…Read More
Our library’s long running non-fiction book club will meet Thursday, February 7, 2019 from 6:30-7:30PM to discuss H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. Description from dust jacket: When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer—Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood—she'd never before been tempted…Read More
Our library’s long running non-fiction book club will meet Thursday, January 3, 2019 from 6:30-7:30PM to discuss Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time Pick up your copy today at the ground floor checkout desk. Check out our book club page for more info and other titles up for discussion.Read More
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox. Ecco: New York, 2013. From Book Jacket: "The Riddle of the Labyrinth is the true story of the quest to solve one of the most mesmerizing riddles in history—Linear B—and of the three brilliant, obsessed, and ultimately domed investigators whose combined…Read More
Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club meets on the first Thursday of every month at 6:30PM in the ground floor meeting room. Our group is free and open to the public. Copies of books up for discussion are available for patrons to borrow on a first come first serve basis at the 1st Floor Information Desk.…Read More
Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club meets on the first Thursday of every month at 6:30PM in the ground floor meeting room. Our group is free and open to the public. Copies of books up for discussion are available for patrons to borrow on a first come first serve basis at the 1st Floor Information Desk.…Read More
Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club meets on the first Thursday of every month at 6:30PM in the ground floor meeting room. Our group is free and open to the public. Copies of books up for discussion are available for patrons to borrow on a first come first serve basis at the 1st Floor Information Desk.…Read More
Our group is free and open to the public. Copies of books up for discussion are available for patrons to borrow on a first come first serve basis at the 1st Floor Information Desk. You may also reserve a copy by calling the Community Planning Department at 978-674-1542. For more information about this group please contact…Read More
Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club meets on the first Thursday of every month at 6:30PM in the ground floor meeting room. Our group is free and open to the public. Copies of books up for discussion are available for patrons to borrow on a first come first serve basis at the 1st Floor Information Desk. You may…Read More
Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club happens at 6:30 on the first Thursday of every month. It is free and open to the public. Copies of books up for discussion are available for patrons to borrow on a first come first serve basis at the 1st Floor Information Desk. You may also reserve a copy by…Read More
Pollard Library Non-Fiction book club happens at 6:30 on the first Thursday of every month. It is free and open to the public. Copies of books up for discussion are available for patrons to borrow on a first come first serve basis at the 1st Floor Information Desk. You may also reserve a copy by…Read More
From the book jacket: In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller's debut…Read More
Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson Description from Book Jacket: The 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was a watershed moment in American history, as significant as the Haymarket bombing  in Chicago and the Triangle fire in New York. In Bread and Roses, Bruce Watson proves…Read More
We're excited to announce—especially as we lead up to the holiday, honoring the late civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—we will have two events in early February surrounding a recently published book by a Lowell native: Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War by Linda Hervieux. So…Read More