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January 2022

Wednesday, January 26
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Tuesday, January 25
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, January 24
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Saturday, January 22
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, January 20
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Thursday, January 20
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Tuesday, January 18
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: Literature for a Changing Planet
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, January 17
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Saturday, January 15
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Painted portrait of Horatio Greenough next to black and white engraved portrait of Thomas Crawford.
Friday, January 14
VIRTUAL TOUR: Up Close: Carvings and Quandaries
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm
Thursday, January 13
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Thursday, January 13
IN-PERSON BOOK TALK: The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, January 13
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, January 10
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Saturday, January 8
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Friday, January 7
BUILDING CLOSED—SNOW
12:00 am
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, January 6
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Monday, January 3
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am
Saturday, January 1
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am

December 2021

Friday, December 31
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, December 30
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, December 27
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Friday, December 24 to Saturday, December 25
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, December 23
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, December 20
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Saturday, December 18
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, December 16
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Wednesday, December 15
IN-PERSON PRESENTATION: Eye of the Expert: A Special Collections Tasting Menu
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, December 13
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Saturday, December 11
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Friday, December 10
EARLY CLOSING
1:00 pm
Details of painted portraits of John Marshall and Daniel Webster by Chester Harding.
Friday, December 10
VIRTUAL TOUR: Up Close: Two Giants
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, December 9
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Tuesday, December 7
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: The Library: A Fragile History
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Monday, December 6
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, December 6
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Saturday, December 4
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, December 2
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Thursday, December 2
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Wednesday, December 1
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: The Shattering: America in the 1960s
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

November 2021

A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, November 29
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Saturday, November 27
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Library reading room vaulted ceiling and, nooks formed from bookstacks, and an arched floor-to-ceiling window in each nook.
Friday, November 26
VIRTUAL TOUR: Art and Architecture
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Thursday, November 25
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am
Wednesday, November 24
EARLY CLOSING
1:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Monday, November 22
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Saturday, November 20
IN-PERSON: Holiday Pop-up Book Shop
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Saturday, November 20
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
A woman in a red knit hat and red knit sweater speaks to a group of five people in a library.
Thursday, November 18
IN-PERSON TOUR: Art and Architecture Tour
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Wednesday, November 17
VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: The Personal Librarian
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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