January 2023

Library Hours

Monday through Thursday

9:30 am - 8 pm

Friday & Saturday

9:30 am - 3 pm

The library will be closed Saturday, December 31st through Monday, January 2nd for the New Year's Holiday.

The library will be closed on Monday, January 16th for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.

Contact us:

Call 508-966-1660 Email us Message us through our website!

January Programs

Click here for information or to register!

Virtual 50+ Job Seekers Networking Group

This group, formed by the Tewksbury Public Library is open to all! January meeting dates and topics:

Self-Assessment & Transferable Skills

Wednesdays, January 4th at 9:30 am and January 11th at 6 pm

Create Your Career Story Pitch

Wednesdays, January 18th at 9:30 and January 25th at 6 pm

Register on the library calendar to get the Zoom link!

Bellingham Skein Artists Adult Knitting Group

Thursdays from 11 am to 1 pm in the Teen Room

Do you enjoy knitting, crocheting, or any of the other fiber arts? Come and join us! All skill levels are welcome, including beginners. Please bring your own materials. No registration.

Bellingham History Discussion Group

Saturday, January 14th at 10 am

Bellingham Historical Museum, 3 Common Street

Join the authors (Cecily Christensen, Marjorie Turner Hollman, Pam Johnson and Bernadette Rivard) of "Bellingham Now & Then: Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of Bellingham, MA" for the first of what the Historical Commission hopes will be quarterly discussions of Bellingham History from 10-11:30 am. The authors will lead a discussion on topics in the book that the group would like to learn more about. Topics could include: The growth in Bellingham since the 1960s, schools, multigenerational businesses, families and restaurants, the Poor Farm or whatever YOU would like to discuss! Stop by for coffee, donuts and a great discussion. 



If you would like to read or review the book in advance you can either purchase a copy at the museum or on Amazon.com, or borrow it from the library. Copies will be for sale at the museum on the discussion day for $20.Snow date, January 28th.

For Kids

Our After School Programs are ongoing. Click here for details!

In January we will be offering the following regular programs. Please check the details as the times have changed and some now require registration.

Sensory Story Time with Miss Melissa, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:30 am

Magic: The Gathering Club, Mondays 2:30-4:30. For grades 4 to 8. Please register!

Ring a Ding, Tuesdays & Fridays at 10 am

All Things STEAM, Thursdays at 4 pm, join Miss Melissa for the project of the week. For grades 1-3.

Baby Time, Fridays at 11:15 am

AC/BC (Adult Child) Book Club - Check the library calendar for the January meeting date!

All YouTube videos can be accessed at youtube.com/abcswithmrsteve

Friends of the Library Annual Meeting

Monday, January 10th at 7 pm

All members of the Friends are invited to this Annual Meeting for the election of Board Members

email [email protected] for the Zoom Link!

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

Thursday, January 12th at 7 pm

in the Conference Room at the library

Book Discussion Group

Monday, January 9th at 6:30 pm

Writing Group for Adults

Thursday, January 12th at 6:30 pm

Meets at Bellingham Historical Museum

Contact Marjorie Turner Hollman for details

Yoga

Tuesdays at 8:30 am and Thursdays at 6:15 pm. See the library calendar for details and to register!

Library Resources

of the Month

Digital Magazines

The Bellingham Public Library subscribes to two online resources that provide access to digital magazines: OverDrive and Flipster. All you need is your Bellingham Library card for free access to a wide variety of magazines that you can read on your computer or mobile device!

OverDrive contains a collection of about 1,000 online magazines that are searchable in the CW MARS OverDrive Digital Catalog. This includes the latest issue of the magazine as well as up to 3 years of back issues. There are titles from around the world and in a variety of world languages. Magazine titles are always available, so there are never any holds or waiting! Just a few of the many popular titles include US Weekly, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, HGTV, Cook’s Illustrated, Women’s World, The Economist, National Geographic, Clean Eating, Good Housekeeping, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. You can borrow and read digital magazines alongside ebooks and audiobooks in OverDrive’s Libby app. The app now includes an article view, which makes reading digital magazines more interactive and enjoyable.

Flipster is a collection of a variety of online magazines. Some titles include All Recipes, American Craft, The Atlantic, Internet Genealogy, Let’s Travel, My Wedding, Mystery Weekly, National Review, Rethinking Schools, and Science News Explores. Back issues as well as the current issue can be accessed. Both the desktop and mobile web browser versions of Flipster support keyword searching within a magazine. You can also search across all issues by accessing the Contents Gallery feature, which allows you to view the table of contents for all available issues of a magazine when using Flipster on your desktop or laptop computer. Note: the Contents Gallery feature is not accessible when using Flipster on a mobile device.

Both OverDrive and Flipster are great ways to access online magazines with just a library card. To access these online resources, go to the Bellingham Public Library’s website at www.bellinghamlibrary.org. Click on the Online Resources tab, then click Digital Magazines. Happy reading!