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City and school district leaders to speak at panel for immigrant students
Cambridge residents will hear from city and school district leaders about supporting immigrant students in the public schools at a Wednesday night panel. Read more Football team dominates for second straight week The event, hosted at Cambridge Public Library’s main branch, will feature a discussion with school district Superintendent David Murphy, Vice-Mayor Burhan Azeem and […]
Free library coding meetup grows into nonprofit Cambridge Dev Lab
An unemployed product manager, a Boston University computer science student, a former librarian and a man who hadn’t touched a computer in years gathered around the tables at the Cambridge Public Library on Monday evening. Read more Central Square’s Carl Barron Plaza set to reopen after 3 years They were among the participants, ages 20 […]
Cambridge STEAM Initiative calling for funding proposals from math nonprofits
The City of Cambridge will divide $70,000 in funding to selected nonprofit math enrichment programs over the course of the next year. Read more Local scientists air concerns about federal funding losses in Arlington town hall Each selected organization can receive up to $25,000 in its first funding year, with the potential to receive an […]
The CPL’s top 10 August reads
Here are this month’s 10 most checked out books at all Cambridge Public Library locations. Thanks to Susannah Borysthen-Tkacz, Senior Librarian, for providing us with the list. Read more Children born at Mount Auburn Hospital invited to meet “The Dot” author
The CPL’s top 10 July reads
Here are this month’s 10 most checked out books at all Cambridge Public Library locations. Thanks to Susannah Borysthen-Tkacz, Senior Librarian, for providing us with the list. Read more Flying turtles, ‘Broadcast News’ and pulp fusion
The CPL’s top 10 June reads
Here are this month’s 10 most checked out books at all Cambridge Public Library locations. Thanks to Susannah Borysthen-Tkacz, Senior Librarian, for providing us with the list. Read more Moulton on affordability, research support and AI regulation
The CPL’s top 10 May reads
Here are this month’s 10 most checked out books at all Cambridge Public Library locations. Thanks to Susannah Borysthen-Tkacz, Senior Librarian, for providing us with the list. Read more Public comment shouldn’t be cut short
Yiyun Li on life ‘in the abyss,’ writing and the importance of ‘Moby Dick’
Novelist Yiyun Li read from her new memoir at a packed Cambridge Public Library last week, speaking about the suicides of her two sons and how she turned to art and writing in her grief. Read more CPS names new school leaders and administrators In “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” which won the Pulitzer Prize […]
The CPL’s top 10 April reads
Here are this week’s 10 most checked out books at all Cambridge Public Library locations in the month of April 2026. Thanks to Susannah Borysthen-Tkacz, Senior Librarian, for providing us with the list. Read more City council sees one way forward for Garden Street