Library Hours

Mon. - Thu.: 9:30 am - 8:00 pm
Fri.: 9:30 - 1
Sat. Closed
Sun.: Closed

Children's Room Hours

Mon.: 9:30 am - 6 pm
Tue.: 9:30 am - 8:00 pm
Wed. & Thu.: 9:30am - 6pm
Fri.: 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Sat. : Closed
Sun.: Closed

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Welcome to the Swampscott Public Library

Welcome to the Swampscott Public Library. We look forward to helping you with all your library needs. We have over 90,000 books to choose from. And we provide a wide variety of programs from children's story times, to the Chorover Author Series. We offer the latest in technology with wireless Internet access in our building and a connection to thousands of online journals and other resources. Stop by our building or browse our web site to see the many services that we offer.

Book Sale Donations

Pile of Books

The Friends of the Swampscott Public Library will be holding their annual Book Sale in September. Is it time for you to start cleaning out those books that are taking over your house? You can bring your books down to the library during library hours. The Book Sale is the main fund-raiser for the Friends–your excellent donations will help support the library.

GAME NIGHT

Come to the library on Tuesday evening July 29th for an old-fashioned board Game Night. All ages are welcome to come and try their hand at Candy Land, Trivial Pursuit, Chess or other fun games. The event will begin at 6:30pm and end at 8:00pm. No registration is required. Refreshments will be served.

New Museum Passes

The Sports Museum
The Friends of the Swampscott Public Library have purchased library passes to the Sports Museum in Boston at the TD Banknorth Garden and to the Institute of Contemporary Art. Please call the Main Desk at 781-596-8867 to reserve a pass.
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NEW SUMMER HOURS

The summer schedule beginning on July 1st will be:

Main Room:
Monday-Thursday 9:30am-8:00pm
Friday 9:30am-1:00pm
Closed Saturday and Sunday

Children’s Room:
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 9:30am-6:00pm
Tuesday 9:30am-8:00pm
Friday 9:30am-1:00pm
Closed Saturday and Sunday

ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB: GOODIES FOR GROWNUPS

Why should the kids have all the fun during the summer? Register for our adult summer reading club and receive a bag of goodies from the library. Once you are registered, participants may submit a title of a book or audio book into our prize box and be eligible for weekly drawings. Registration for “Goodies” will begin on June 30th.

Ongoing Groups Meeting in July

Book Group

The July selection of the adult book club will be The Queen’s Fool: a novel by Philippa Gregory. We will meet on Tuesday, July 22nd at 7:00pm. There will not be an August meeting. Instead, sign up for the Adult Summer Reading Club and get some Goodies for Grownups!

Knitting Club

Join the Needlers a knitting group at the Swampscott Public Library. This group meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month at 11:00am in the Meeting Room. This group meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month from 11:00am – 12:30pm in the Meeting Room. The July meetings will be July 1st and July 15th. We will meet in August on August 5th and August 19th. Crocheters are welcome to join our group.

History Buffs

Lou Gallo and his town historians will not be meeting during the summer. Check the September-October newsletter for their new schedule.

Dinner Detectives

The Dinner Detectives, the library’s mystery book group, will meet at 6:00pm on Tuesday, July 1st to discuss Female Detectives and Mystery. On Tuesday, August 5th at 6:00pm, the topic will be Transportation and Mystery. Everyone is welcome.

E-mail List for Author Series

With the great interest in our Chorover Author Series, we would like to start an e-mail list to inform interested library customers. Anyone who would like to be automatically informed about upcoming author appearances, please send an e-mail to swa@noblenet.org

We would like to have a representative from all local book groups sign up so that they can forward the e-mail to their members. Thank you for making our author appearances so successful.

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