Representatives from Imagineers LLC and Hartford Public Library spend a moment on Zoom celebrating Imagineers' generous grant to support youth technology. Clockwise from left, Tessa Murray, Maria Stoute, Vincente Ithier, HPL Board president Gregory C. Davis and Bridget Quinn-Carey
Hartford Public Library will increase its programs and services to teens this summer through a generous grant from Imagineers LLC, a Connecticut-based housing services company that manages condominiums, rental property, and housing programs.

The $50,000 gift will specifically help the Library’s Teen Services team’s effort to build a comprehensive creative arts, digital literacy and gaming program that will be implemented at the Downtown Library and then through YOUmedia at the Albany Library.

You can check out our virtual programming on our Facebook page, YouTube channel, and on our Instagram account!
On Mondays and Thursdays, we'll have story time. On Wednesdays, we'll have a story in Spanish. Tuesdays and Fridays we'll have crafts and other educational activities.
Create a small collage with a house
Using paint, collage papers, and other mediums, Rebecca Maloney will show you how to create your own abstract landscape with a house. Have fun creating! 
Hip Hop Dance 

Rosanna Karabetsos will demonstrate a short & high energy hip hop combo, one that will lift your heart rate and your mood. No dance experience necessary!
Each week we'll bring you a profile of one of our amazing local online presenters.

Writer Melanie Faranello has devoted her work to the idea that everyone has a poem inside of them. Melanie recently presented a writing workshop on Facebook , YouTube , and Instagram . 

Join  @HPLCT on Instagram  Live for a virtual ArtWalk artist talk with Erik Williams on Saturday, May 23 at 11am!

Prior to the talk, feel free to see the full   Lost in Color black and white street photography exhibit  virtually on Hartford Public Library's YouTube Channel.

Please note: if you want to look at a particular photograph for longer, simply pause the video.

Julie Styles, manager of public services at the Downtown Library, has made her latest foray into the HPL's cookbook collection, this time tackling lemony Greek potatoes with crispy Greek chicken thighs from T he Defined Dish: Healthy and Wholesome Weeknight Recipes by Alex Snodgrass.

We are excited about the return of OverDrive – borrow and read free ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines from HPL using your phone or tablet.

Our Overdrive collection is returning with 800 new titles. Since March, we’ve added 1500 new titles to our e-book and e-audiobook collections, with new titles added weekly.
Keep up on everything having to do with the Park Library construction on the Park Library Construction Project website. We'll be periodically sharing photos and updates on the status of the construction project.

“ Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”―  Lady Bird Johnson