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
The Veteran’s Department has a new “Corner” at the Senior Center Branch with rotating displays of books on military subjects. Many of them are library books that you can check out right there. Our current topic is the Civil War, featuring many of our best books on battlefields, Massachusetts regiments, Mathew Brady photographs and Lowell…Read More
May the 4th Be With You! Come visit the children's department to celebrate this holiday and check out a Star Wars book from our display and get your free wookiee bookmark. Read you must!    ÂRead More
Calling all anime fans! Join us this Friday, May 4th from 3 to 4:30 P.M. to watch and discuss anime, play anime themed games, and eat Japanese snacks. New fans and anime experts are welcome. We will also be meeting Friday, May 25th because we had no meeting in April. For grades 7 - 12 and…Read More
In honor of National Preservation Month, the library will be hosting a series of blog posts related to preservation. This Saturday, we’ll be hosting tours as part of Doors Open Lowell celebrating not only our 125-year-old building, but also some of the work that we do to preserve art, books, documents, and other materials in…Read More
Our first April PLAYcation program was a big success! Check out the cool self-driving vehicles we made at our Stem Explorers program with littleBits. A big thank you to the Library Foundation for sponsoring this program. For more information on our vacation week programming please check out our library events calendar.Read More
April PLAYcation begins next week in Lowell on Tuesday, April 17th. Sign up soon for the exciting programs that we have coming up! This includes: STEM Explorers with littleBits, a Teddy Bear Picnic, and a Family Fort Storytime. Sign up on our events calendar or at the children's reference desk by calling (978) 674-1529.Read More
National Library week is April 8th - 14th, 2018. Kids can celebrate by coming to the children's reference desk for a fun owl decoration craft (while supplies last). This is a drop-in craft.Read More
Get in the game and…..READ!!! Starting Monday, April 2nd a selection of children's book all-stars will go head to head in the 2018 Battle of the Books. Children in grades 2 through 6 can vote for their favorite books each week from the week of Friday, April 6th to the week of Friday, April 27th. The winner will be announced…Read More
[caption id="attachment_3776" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Lowell Spinners Kerouac On the Road bobble-head. Photo by Meghan Moore[/caption] On Saturday, March 10, 2018 the library organized a marathon reading of Jack Kerouac's On the Road as part of the Kerouac birthday weekend celebrations. (Jean Louis Kerouac was born in Lowell on March 12, 1922). This marathon reading was…Read More
The Pollard Memorial Library will reopen on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 with its regular operating hours of 9 am to 9 pm. We look forward to welcoming patrons back after our recent closure. Library staff will continue to be available at the Senior Center Monday through Friday from 9:15 - 1 until further notice. All…Read More
Visit Barnes & Noble this Saturday to support the Pollard Memorial Library. You can shop in store or online with a percentage of your purchases going to help the library purchase items for our collection! Hope to see you there. Print the image below or show this image to help support Lowell's Library!Read More
We have a special exhibit on the second floor, courtesy of The Secretary of the Commonwealth. It documents a terrible chapter in Canadian and New England history: the deportation of thousands of French speakers from eighteenth century Nova Scotia to Massachusetts and other English colonies, and later to France. The English and French had been…Read More
Please note that the City of Lowell has opened a warming center 7 pm to 7 am for the next few nights due to the extreme cold. Any residents who need a place to stay warm are encouraged to protect themselves from the frigid temperatures by taking advantage of this opportunity.Read More