Zinio is here!

Read your favorite magazines online – for free! With the library's new Zinio subscription, you can read current issues of nearly 80 different magazines, including National Geographic Interactive, The Economist, Newsweek (now published online only), Martha Stewart Living, O: the Oprah Magazine, Us Weekly, Esquire, and Bloomberg Businessweek. View these on your on their computer or by downloading the Zinio app to your smart phone, tablet, or other devices.

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Spivak to Speak at Friends' Annual Meeting

In 1959 Kathleen Spivack won a scholarship to study at BU with the poet Robert Lowell. Her fellow students included Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, and Stanley Kunitz. She will speak about her new book, With Robert Lowell and His Circle, at 10 AM on Thursday, June 6 at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Belmont Public Library in the Assembly Room. All are invited to attend.

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Author Series - Dick Lehr on Whitey

At 7:30 PM on Tuesday, June 4 – two days before Whitey Bulger's trial is scheduled to begin – Belmont author Dick Lehr will share the insights he has gained over several decades of covering the crime boss and killer. A professor of journalism at Boston University and former investigative reporter for The Boston Globe, Lehr recently published Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss with co-author Gerard O'Neill. This free program is in the Assembly Room.

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The Boston Herald (1855 – 1909) Trial

Attention Family Historians, Genealogists, and Civil War Buffs!!! The Boston Herald (7/2/1855 - 12/31/1909) has been digitized by NewsBank and the Belmont Library is participating in a trial of the database. Try looking for old family names; see if you can break through that “brick wall.” Please tell us of your successes or disappointments; all comments welcome.

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