Boston Public Library branches will host 19 drag queen story hour events for children during June as part of LGBTQ+ Pride Month programming this year.

A “trans period pride” event that caused an uproar on right-wing social media channels will no longer be hosted by the Boston Public Library, and will be moved to a new location, city officials said.

Boston Public Library (BPL) was the first large free municipal library in the United States. The present Copley Square location has been home to the Library since 1895, when architect Charles Follen ...

The Boston Public Library’s series of drag queen story hours for families in celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month has raised concerns from the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts. C.J. Doyle, the ...

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Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically ...

As libraries nationwide grapple with increasing pressures to remove certain books from their shelves, the Boston Public Library (BPL) is taking a bold stand by extending its digital collection to ...

Teens and young adults nationwide can now sign up for a free account with the Boston Public Library, which offers access to digital copies of books including those that may be banned in the libraries ...

Boston is making reading on-the-go more accessible through a pilot program that will allow riders to access digital content from audiobooks to newspapers at some bus stops across the city – no library ...

A group of acclaimed architecture teams is competing for the right to build a new public library branch in Boston’s West End, a neighborhood bereft of communal spaces since the urban renewal debacle ...

The Boston Public Library released its 2025 "BPL Wrapped" lists for the year, documenting the most-borrowed books of 2025.The library system also released the top five most-borrowed teen books, ...