Today, the Library Directors of the Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton libraries stocked a new bookshelf in an unusual location: the airport! The initiative is cleverly called the Airport Book Exchange (or ABE) and is a collaboration with the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority, operators of Lehigh Valley International Airport (also known ABE Airport). Here is an article […]
Here is the latest Annual Report from 2018! Read on to learn all about all the exciting things that happened last year.
People of all ages and abilities love coming to the South Side Branch to participate in our free programs like computer classes, foreign language learning, book sales, author visits, D.I.Y. workshops, story times, seasonal and literary celebrations, and so much more. Since all of our programs take place on the lower level of the branch […]
Here is a fun thing! Living Proof Pictures, a Lehigh Valley-based production company, shot a scene for their series Price of Faerie Tales at BAPL’s Main Library earlier this month. BAPL was briefly a TV set! The way it came to be is that Living Proof’s location scout Mindy Sedlock is a BAPL regular. Besides […]
The Bethlehem Area Public Library has an opening for a part-time Youth Services Technician. The position is 25 hours per week and pay is $17.37 per hour. PA Child Abuse, PA Criminal, and FBI Fingerprint clearances are required. Professional experience related to youth programming and library service required. Working two nights per week and every […]
We’re excited to bring back the Lehigh Valley Punk Rock Flea Market for its second year this spring! This year’s event will be held at the Ice House (56 River St, Bethlehem) rather than BAPL. The proceeds still benefit the library and there again will be so much cool stuff! It will be held Saturday, […]
February Books read this month: 10 Books read so far this year: 21 Another productive month of reading (mostly because I went on vacation and sat on the beach and read- sorry, not sorry). Read too many cozy mysteries again this month- I’m a bit of an addict. I went to a great book store […]
Borrow digital magazines from the library using just your library card and the Flipster app. Flipster is a next-generation digital magazine solution that makes it easy for you to read your favorite magazines on your computer or mobile device. These are full digital versions of top magazines covering business, leisure, fashion, product reviews, current events, […]
PBS39 reporter Karishma Desai did an excellent piece about BAPL’s new oral history project on the “Black Experience in Bethlehem.” Thanks, Karishma! You can check out the video below and email Rayah Levy here — rlevy@bapl.org — for more information on the project.
“H.D.’s Moravian Roots in Bethlehem” Tuesday, February 26, 2019. 6:30-8:00 pm Given by Craig Atwood, Professor of Moravian Theology, Moravian College Craig Atwood teaches courses in Moravian theology, Moravian history, the history of Christianity, religion in America, and history of Christian thought. In both the academic and church settings, Atwood is helping the broader Christian community […]
If you are lover of books and words and particularly poetry, you may be interested in this upcoming (free) event over at Lehigh University’s Zoellner Arts Center. Award-winning poet Dana Gioia is coming to town and you should definitely check him out. He’s a dynamic reader, an interesting poet, and has written Haunted, a one-act […]
January Books read this month: 11 Last year my goal was 100 books and I did it! So it would be pretty boring to just I got pretty many books read this month because it was gross and cold and rainy and I would much rather stay inside and read than do anything else. Which […]
Bethlehem Main Library Expands Hours Starting on March 4, the Bethlehem Area Public Library’s Main Library will have new hours. On Mondays through Fridays, the Library (11 W. Church St.) will open at 9:00 am rather than 10:00 am. Saturday hours will remain the same as they have been (10-5). “After many years of flat […]
♫ ♬ Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Walt Whitmannnnnnnnn, happy birthday to you! ♫ ♬ To celebrate the 200th birthday of the great American poet Walt Whitman, BAPL is partnering with Lehigh University’s English department to host a read-aloud of his great work “Song of Myself” on April 30 from 5:30-8:00pm. Led […]
Here is some good news: we are ready to share the exciting new project known as Studio 11 at BAPL! This is our new public recording space, a free-to-use library service where you can record a podcast, cut a demo of your metal band, record your acoustic album full of songs about your cat, really […]