During the 2024 year, the Worcester Public Library loaned over 640,000 items. As the year comes to a close, library staff decided to compile a list of the top 10 most borrowed books of 2024 for kids, ...

During prom season, teenagers get dressed up in their best suits, tuxedos and brand-new prom dresses. The Worcester Public Library is holding a prom this month, too. But instead of black ties and ...

The Worcester Public Library loaned over 600,000 books so far in 2025, along with more than 278,000 e-books and audiobooks.

In July of 1899, “The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley,” was added to the collection of the Worcester Public Library. The book, a compilation of illustrations by a British artist and poet, remained in ...

Last year, the Worcester Public Library launched March Meowness, an initiative that offered fee forgiveness for any lost or damaged library items when people brought in a picture of a cat. Now, the ...

A long-lost library book has been reunited with its owner. “The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley,” who was a British illustrator and author, was first added to the Worcester Public Library’s collection ...

As I write this, it's the last day of National Poetry Month. And it's been a good one here in Worcester, filled with packed ...

WORCESTER – In the hush of the city’s seven library branches, two bookmobiles and three library vending machines, almost 1 million books are waiting to be read by Worcester residents including a ...

WORCESTER ― The Frances Perkins Library is set to reopen Tuesday, June 10, two months after the city closed it in late March for radon testing due to actionable levels of radon in the basement. The ...

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