Press Coverage
Conservation
- The Race to Save Rare Books
William Martin, Boston Magazine, February 19, 2008 - Boston Public Library Posts Rare 15th-Century Scroll
Rebecca Rego Barry, Fine Books Magazine, July 13, 2015 - BPL Behind the Scenes: The Conservation Lab
Penny Cherubino, The Back Bay Sun, February 7, 2012
Digitization
- Boston Globe
- This librarian helps put collections online
The Boston Globe - Behind the Scenes: BPL Digital Projects
Penny Cherubino, The Back Bay Sun, April 23, 2013
Founding Research Collection Initiative
- Boston Public Library receives $2.1 million in private donations to revitalize founding research collection
Charlie McKenna, Boston Globe, March 24, 2021
Anti-Slavery Transcription Project
Dutch Lady Discovery
Philanthropic Support
- Philanthropy Below the Radar
The Boston Foundation - Secret patron helps library unveil history
The Boston Globe - 7 Bookish Charities
Gilles Peress, Hamilton Fish, and Stona Fitch, Huffington Post, January 23, 2014
Writer-in-Residence
- http://www.bostonbookblog.com/articles/sunset-rising-a-conversation-with-laura-rees
- http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20170727/cambridge-resident-named-boston-public-library-writer-in-residence
- https://pauldurhambooks.com/telling-lies-to-children/2017/4/2/-24-lisa-rosinsky-at-the-boston-public-library
- “Lisa Rosinsky Brings a Fresh Perspective to her work–and the BPL”
- https://www.bu.edu/today/2017/lisa-rosinsky-writer-in-residence/
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2017/02/19/bpl-writer-residence-gets-movie-deal/R1UezO6ZiMi9doGhmGfXxJ/story.html
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/09/13/jenniferdeleon/S4WtbhKFScGNUFSGO6M0iM/story.html
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/01/13/bpl-writing-fellow-launches-new-career/ibTOToPZEMsWvYqC8HY1LN/story.html
Literary Lights Dinner
- http://forum-network.org/lectures/boston-public-library-literary-lights-2017/
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2017/04/24/bpl-honors-appiah-faludi-and-others/Rld5DpROUYAiqrQDnriIEL/story.html
- https://www.boston.com/culture/events/2017/05/02/party-pics-literary-lights-and-clothes-for-a-cure
- http://www.improper.com/photos-parties/literary-lights-gala/
Literary Spotlights
- What animals can teach people about being "good creatures"
Betsy Groban, Boston Globe, May 11, 2021
Bid it! Book it! Auction
- Authors show their love for libraries with prizes for the BPL's online auction
Mark Shanahan, Boston Globe, September 23, 2020
Pierce Performance Series
- Giving Voice to the Abolitionists: An Anonymous Donor Helps to Resurrect History
The Boston Foundation, April 30, 2021
Shakespeare Unauthorized Exhibition
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/10/13/boston-public-library-exhibit-rare-copies-shakespeare-works/TmPjX1N51jX55zfA1W9eYK/story.html
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2016/10/27/travels-with-shakespeare/s0VOY6Gu1SPqleMm72jKNJ/story.html
- https://lj.libraryjournal.com/2018/03/people/movers-shakers-2018/jay-moschella-movers-shakers-2018-digital-developers/#_
Beyond Words Exhibition
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/07/31/boston-museums-teaming-display-rare-medieval-manuscripts/sHL1NCYmJY5ckBNPUgP4UN/story.html
- https://www.nedcc.org/about/nedcc-stories/beyond-words
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2016/09/29/illuminating-illuminating-manuscripts/9q0v1jJwtS0wJTpta9jW3O/story.html
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-words-illuminated-manuscripts-in-boston-collections-review-a-trove-of-beautiful-books-1473804715
- https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2016/09/boston-public-library-loans-centuries-old-illuminated-manuscripts-for-beyond-words-exhibition.phtml
Home Front Exhibition
- Seeing the Civil War: Several Exhibits Mark 150th Anniversary
by Mark Feeney / Boston Globe / November 27, 2011 - Home Front: The Curator’s View
by Penny Cherubino / The Back Bay Sun / June 22, 2011 - 10 Boston lives tell the tale of the Civil War: A multimedia library exhibit takes personal route to history
by Brian MacQuarrie / Boston Globe / June 10, 2011 - Voices of abolition restored: Library highlights 19th-century sisters’ antislavery efforts
by James Sullivan / Boston Globe / November 10, 2010