Yes!
Curbside pickup is now available!
However, until inter-library loan deliveries resume, this is limited to items that are currently available at the Chelmsford Library.
Reserve your items online or call 978-256-5521.
Pickup hours are
10 am to 8 pm, Monday through Thursday, and 10 am to 4 pm on Friday and Saturday.
The library is always closed on Sundays between Memorial Day and Columbus Day.
At this time, the building remains closed to the public. We are following guidance provided by state and local health officials as further discussions about phased reopening continue.
How can I use the library online?
Visit
chelmsfordlibrary.com/econtent
to explore your options. We have a variety of apps and databases that give you access to books, newspapers, audiobooks, music, movies, and more.
What else is going on?
Can I donate books?
Unfortunately, we are not able to accept any donations at this time.
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Visit the Library Online!
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Our electronic resources
are always available to anyone with a Chelmsford Library card.
Residents or employees of the town can still get a card (or be reminded of your existing card number). B
e sure to share the news, and this link, with friends and family online!
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Featured Online Programs
Many of our programs can only be accessed using Zoom or Facebook Live.
Call or email the library if you need help using these resources!
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Wednesday, June 3 and 17 at 6:30 pm
Connect with fellow knitters, show off your latest projects and even receive tips from professional and experienced knitters. Make sure to register to get the Zoom invite!
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Thursday, June 4 at 7 pm
Join Liz Barbour of The Creative Feast as she shares the
secrets to creating modern cocktails and non-alcoholic "mock"-tails with herbal syrups, flavorful purees, and other tips to making the perfect drink at home. Make sure to register to get the Zoom invite!
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Thursday, June 11 at 1 pm
Climate Conversations is an informal group sponsored by Elders Climate Action.
Make sure to register to get the Zoom invite!
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Thursday, June 11 at 7 pm
Judy Garland (1922-1969) was one of America's most beloved singers, dancers, and actresses. This program will celebrate her life with archival photos from her life and recordings of some of her best-known songs!
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Thursday, June 18 at 7 pm
Learn more about how to begin recording your own show and building an audience around a subject that you're passionate about!
Dan Thibeault, the owner of Fast Twitch Media, specializes in media host management for podcasters.
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Now you can call the library anytime and have a story read to you! Each weekday we'll change the recording, alternating short stories with poetry, essays, and children's stories. To dial-a-story, just call the main library's number 978-256-5521 and then press 1234. Call in whenever it's convenient for you, and leave your suggestions at the end!
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Watch
lectures, workshops, musical performances, and other talks with library visitors from any time in the last two years!
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Featured Digital Resources
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Streaming film service that offers thousands of films, documentaries, and shorts. Highlights include films from The Criterion Collection and PBS, as well as thousands of independent filmmakers. Let us know if you like this service if you'd like to see us add it permanently.
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World-class mysteries, dramas, and comedies from Britain and beyond. You’ll have full access to all titles for one week. New users must create an RBDigital and an AcornTV account. Please contact the
Reference Desk
for help or with questions.
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Engaging professors covering a wide variety of topics. You’ll have full access to all titles for one week. New users must create an RBDigital account. Please contact the
Reference Desk
for help or with questions.
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Need to Reach us?
Staff will provide support as we work from home, but please be patient as response times may not be as quick as normally expected. Please use any of the options below and we will respond as quickly as we are able.
Call us at 978-256-5521
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Staff Book Recommendations
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An acclaimed literary master suffering from writer's block and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them to write well in each others’ styles.
She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
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From the author of Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors comes another clever, deeply layered, and heartwarming romantic comedy that follows in the Jane Austen tradition. How can Chef Ashna Raje save her beloved restaurant and prove to her estranged, overachieving mother that she isn't a complete screw-up? When she's asked to join the cast of Cooking with the Stars, the latest hit reality show teeming chefs with celebrities, it seems like just the leap of faith she needs to put her restaurant back on the map.
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In 1970, on a soundstage in Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of men and women of various ages and races met to finish the first season of a children's TV program. They had identified a social problem: poor children were entering kindergarten without the learning skills of their middle-class counterparts. They hoped, too, that they had identified a solution: to use television to better prepare these disadvantaged kids for school. Bestselling author David Kamp takes readers behind the scenes to show how programs like Sesame Street, Mr Rogers' Neighborhood, and The Electric Company made it on the air.
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Monday Evening Book Group
by Kim Michele Richardson
7:00 pm
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Novel Conversations
Share your recent favorites!
12:30 pm
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Knit Lit Book Group
Share your recent favorites!
10:30 am
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Wednesday Morning Book Group
Annual Selection Meeting
10:00 am
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Also, our
BookWise library staff
would love to help you find your next book! See what your favorite librarian has been reading or ask for a customized list and we'll help you find that new author that you didn't even know you were looking for. You can also watch our regular TV program,
BookMarked
, brought to you by Chelmsford Telemedia!
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Resources for Kids and Teens
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Don't forget that we've got a monthly newsletter just for kids, teens, and their families!
Sign up here
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Registration begins on Wednesday, June 17!
Kids from 0-18 (yes, you can even participate by reading to your baby, and there are prizes for you, too!) can earn rewards for every seven days of reading logged in our new Beanstack website or via the free mobile app. “Reading” might mean picking up a book, graphic novel, or magazine, listening to someone read to you (or reading to someone else), attending storytime, or even playing reading or literacy games. Make sure you log days, not minutes for it to count for the challenge. Try to read for at least 15 minutes every day! And check out the special activities you can do for extra rewards on our website, too!
To participate in our Summer Reading Challenge, sign yourself or your family up for a free account on our new
Summer Reading Challenge website
, or download the free Beanstack Tracker app (on the Apple App Store or Google Play) to participate by logging your reading on a mobile device!
The site will be live starting on June 1!
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Virtual Storytimes and Singalongs!
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
11:00 am
Join us on Facebook Live
for storytimes with Deborah on Mondays for preschoolers and Fridays for toddlers, with all ages singalongs with Sara on Wednesdays! We'll also be having
Dads and Donuts
(you bring your own donuts!) on
Saturday, June 13 at 10:30 am!
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Virtual Make-It Club
Mondays at 4 pm
Every week we share a new project that you can make at home using
Creativebug!
Check out #MakeItChelmsford on
Instagram
and share your own crafts as well!
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For years, Chelmsford Telemedia has recorded your favorite librarians reading their favorite stories! Watch online or every evening at 7pm on Chelmsford Telemedia (cable TV), Comcast 22 or Verizon 36.
Chelmsford Residents Only.
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Donation Drop Off Days will be announced as conditions change and depending on the ongoing public health situation.
Show your support for the Chelmsford Library and Friends of the Library with this limited-edition t-shirt! The artwork was drawn especially for us by Peter Reynolds, CHS grad, illustrator of the Judy Moody series, and author/illustrator of many picture books including
The
Dot
and
The Word Collector
, which you can see here being read by Barack and Michelle Obama!
The shirts are 100% heavy cotton, and all proceeds go to fund the Friends’ initiatives.
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