HOURS OF OPERATION
| Monday - Thursday: | 9-9 |
| Friday - Saturday: | 9-5 |
| Sunday: | 1-5 |
The Children's Room, the Reference Room and the Stacks close 15 minutes before the Main Desk.
Welcome
Salem Public Library is located in the Historic District of Salem, Massachusetts in an 1855 renovated brick mansion originally owned by sea merchant John Bertram. The library is part of the North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE), a consortium of 28 public and academic libraries in the surrounding area.
What's New
Summer Reading Lists - Spend some time reading in the summer sun! Here is a collection of the local Salem schools' reading lists that are linked to our library catalog.
The Salem Public Library Book Club
Come to our next meeting!
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
at 7:00 p.m.In The Salem Public Library Children's Program Room
This Month's Selection: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Join us for a discussion of Audrey Niffenegger's acclaimed first novel. It is a supernatural love story about Henry, a librarian who has a genetic disorder that causes him to move unexpectedly through time, and his wife Clare. The Time Traveler's Wife reveals the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's marriage and their undying love for one another as the story unfolds from both points of view.
Salem Links & Lore — Did you know we have a local history wiki? Salem Links & Lore is a virtual vertical file of all-things-Salem. It is constantly being updated by our staff and has links to further information in our catalog. Now you can research (or reminisce) about Salem, MA from home!
Find us on Facebook — Get the latest library news updates by becoming a fan of our Facebook page. You can also follow us on Twitter and, we've got photos on Flickr as well.
Footnote — Footnote helps you find and share historic documents. We are able to bring you many never-before-seen historic documents through our unique partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions.
Mango Languages — Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages including Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, German, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, and several ESL languages. Remote access available for Salem residents.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center - Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 55,000 resource entries from Facts On File.
Download Audiobooks — If you like listening to audiobooks, take a look at this new library service! You can browse through a collection of audiobooks including fiction and nonfiction for adults, teens and children, check them out with your library card, and download them for two weeks. You can listen to the books on your PC, or transfer them to an MP3 player. Some titles can also be burned to a CD. Browse or search our collection, download the special software you need, check out some books, and enjoy listening!
NOBLE's NextReads - Do you like to read biographies, history, science, travel adventures, mysteries, fantasy, romance? Whatever your interests, check out our new e-mail newsletter service which will send great book suggestions by email. Each newsletter includes new books that may be of interest and some older ones that you may have missed, with links to the library catalog so you can see what is available and place requests for books you want to read. There are over twenty lists for readers of all ages, and you can preview them all online before subscribing.
