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Upcoming Events

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Jan

Teen Advisory Group for grades 9-12

3:30pm - 4:30pm

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Teens, High School (grades 9-12)

Jan

STEM Challenge: Build A Bridge

4:00pm - 4:45pm

At the library

Youth, School Aged (grades k-4)

Jan

Crafts & Laughs Art Workshop CANCELLED

6:00pm - 7:30pm

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Adults

Jan

Video Stories for Babies up to age 5

11:00am - 11:30am

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Youth, Children (ages 0-5)

Jan

Intermediate Classical Latin

11:00am - 12:00pm

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High School (grades 9-12), Adults

Jan

Poetry Cafe

11:00am - 12:00pm

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Adults

Jan

Blackstone Jigsaw Puzzle Tournament

2:30pm - 4:30pm

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Adults, Everyone

Jan

Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

12:00am - 12:00am

At the library

Jan

Tuesdays are for Twos Storytime for ages 2 to 3

10:00am - 10:30am

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Youth, Children (ages 0-5)

Jan

Tech Help Tuesday

10:30am - 12:00pm

At the library

Adults

Jan

Stories & Music for Babies up to 24 months

10:00am - 10:30am

At the library

Youth, Children (ages 0-5)

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Featured eResources

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Libby

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Thousands of best-selling and classic ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Download the Libby App or read online at libbyapp.com.

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The Palace Project

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Offers thousands of eBook and audiobooks from the CT State Library, the Digital Public Library of America, plus everything from the Libby app, available in multiple languages.

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Hoopla

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Download and stream ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV series and music to your computers, television and mobile devices.

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Hoopla

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Download and stream ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV series and music to your computers, television and mobile devices.

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Independent, classic, international films, series and documentaries, plus the Criterion Collection, the Great Courses and PBS. Create an account at Kanopy, using your Blackstone Library card. Available...

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New Haven Register

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You will find full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people and much more from current and archived issues from 1988. Updated daily, it includes obituaries, editorials,...

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researchIT CT – Newspapers

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Anyone with a Connecticut library card can access a wide array of newspapers, including the New York Times, Hartford Courant, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times...

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Libby

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Thousands of best-selling and classic ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Download the Libby App or read online at libbyapp.com.

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Current News & Happenings

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Plant Propagation Station

The Blackstone Library is excited to present our Plant Propagation Station—open to everyone in the community! Visit our plant propagation station in the Circulation Lobby. You do not need a library card to take a free cutting home. What is plant propagation? Plant propagations...

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