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 Children's Programs - It's a Summer Safari in the Salem Public Library Children's Room! Find out about all the program adventures available and what's happening on Wild Wednesdays and Family Night Thursdays in the Children's Room this summer.
Summer Reading Lists - Spend some time reading in the summer sun! We've taken the Salem High School and Collins Middle School 2009 summer reading lists and linked to our library catalog to easily check availability.
- Book Club - Our Salem Public Library Book Club is on a small summer hiatus until September but you can view our past reads and details about our next pick and meeting as they become available. We will try to stock as many available copies of the next book choice in front of the Circulation Desk at the library. Meetings are held in the Salem Public Library Children's Program Room. All are welcome to attend.
FOR SALE: Salem Public Library is selling our cassette audiobooks. As of May 15, 2009, we will no longer be carrying books-on-tape in our collection. If you would like to purchase any books-on-tape you may pay at the main circulation desk. Price: $1.00 each plus 5% tax.
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.
