Check Out Creativebug

The library is pleased to offer an online resource with more than 1,000 arts & crafts video classes taught by design experts and artists. Just log in at Creativebug with your Blackstone or Willoughby Wallace library card and create an account.

In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Adam Spilka, Board of Trustees President

Library staff and Board of Trustees members are deeply saddened to announce the sudden loss of our Board President, Adam Spilka. Read more…

Library Closed Sunday & Monday

The Blackstone will be closed Sunday (January 15) and Monday (January 16) for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Want to learn more about the life and legacy of Dr. King? Check out the video collection from Kanopy and digital books from Hoopla, all free with your Blackstone Library card.

 

New Year’s Holiday

The library will be closed Sunday, January 1, and Monday, January 2. We’ll reopen Tuesday, January 3, 2023 at 9 AM.

Nintendo Switch Games available for checkout

Nintendo Switch video games are now available in the teen room of the Blackstone Library. The games check out for one week, and cannot be held or renewed so that everyone gets a chance to play.

Photography Exhibit

Photography Exhibit – Second Floor Art Gallery

On view through end of December

A Sense of Place, photographs by John Simboli span his work in central Pennsylvania and Upstate New York from 1971-1982. Each of these photographs contains its own mystery; it is through their linkage that we may find some insight. Read more…

Strategic Framework

The Blackstone Library has completed a Strategic Framework that will help guide us into the future. This framework is a result of community conversations and a community-wide survey that took place last year, and will help us better serve the Branford community. We’ll use the Framework to plan programs, services, and investments to infrastructure that address our community’s needs so that we can continue our legacy of engaging community, expanding minds, and enriching lives.

Read the Framework here.

Friends Gift Basket Sale

ACCEPTING DONATIONS OF ITEMS THROUGH NOVEMBER 21. Accepting new or gift quality items for the baskets. Please drop off the circulation desk at the back entrance. All proceeds from the sale help the Friends support the Blackstone Library.
The Friends of the Library are bringing back their holiday basket sale! Opening night is Thursday, December 1st, during Branford’s upcoming Sip, Shop & Stroll, and continues through Saturday, December 3rd at the Blackstone Library.