There are lots of fun holiday events coming up at BAPL locations this month — check them out! Make Reindeer Fly at South Side, December 13, 4pm, BAPL South Side! Santa Comes to South Side! December 15, 4:30pm, BAPL South Side Holiday Storytime and Cookie decorating event at the Main Library, December 18, 11am Snowy […]
You can support BAPL by shopping at Barnes and Noble this Thursday. It’s the B&N at 4445 Southmont Way (off Rt 33). Just show them this post when you checkout and a percentage of the purchase goes to the library. It goes for cafe purchases too! There is some musical entertainment provided by some BAPL […]
The South Side branch of BAPL is closed this week, from November 22-November 28. It will re-open Monday, November 29. Have a good holiday, friends!
As we reach the year’s end, we have been looking back at all the places we’ve been in 2021. BAPL has been on the road quite a bit, in addition to the events and programs at our own buildings. We’ve met a lot of people, shared a lot of stories, and took a lot of […]
Eleven performers rocked the library on November 11, in the now annual tradition known as 11Fest. The festival and the date are inspired by the library’s Studio 11, whose name was inspired by our address (11 W. Church St.) and by the movie Spinal Tap (“Turn it up to eleven!”). To really bring home the […]
The monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Bethlehem Area Public Library will be held at the Main Library (11 W. Church St., Bethlehem) on November 8, at 6pm. The agenda can be found here. Contact jberk@bapl.org with questions.
Get to Know Arati Shah-Yukich Ahead of 11Fest! By Dominic Trabosci The Bethlehem Area Public Library’s annual fundraising concert 11Fest is just around the corner! To prepare music fans for this exciting event, we’ve interviewed another one of the 11 performers, Arati Shah-Yukich, ahead of her performance! Arati describes her performance as one consisting of […]
Get to Know Jillian Dolan Ahead of 11Fest! By Dominic Trabosci We are just about a week away from 11/11, which means we’re a week away from BAPL’s annual fundraising concert, 11Fest! To prepare music fans for this exciting event, we’ve decided to get to know one of the 11 performers, Jillian Dolan, in a […]
Get to Know Amber Peirce Ahead of 11Fest! By Dominic Trabosci We are less than one month away from the Bethlehem Area Public Library’s annual fundraising concert, 11Fest! To prepare music fans for this exciting event, we’ve decided to get to know performer Amber Peirce in greater detail. What kind of music will you be […]
The Library will close at 4pm on November 19th because of the tree lighting ceremony on Payrow Plaza.
Read all about it! There’s a great write-up about BAPL’s “Book on the Hill” in the Saucon Source this week. The link is below — check it out! Get Your Nose in a Book From Fountain Hill’s Unique New Library
BAPL Coolidge is closed on Tuesday, Nov 2nd for Election Day. The building serves as a polling location. Get out and vote!
We had a beautiful day on October 2nd for the Grand Opening of our Books on the Hill satellite branch in Fountain Hill. Bookworms young and old got to climb aboard and check out the collection. The young ones enjoyed games and crafts, and Councilman Will Rufe brought treats from local eateries. Councilwoman Anna-Marie Jordan […]
This article comes out of a multi-year effort to index the “hanging clip files”—which are articles and pictures cut from newspapers and other sources over the past 100 years or so, lovingly saved by our wise predecessors at the library—that take up many long drawers in the Bethlehem Room. From time to time as we […]
The Bethlehem Area Public Library presents the winners of its Summer 2021 writing contest for adults. Library patrons were challenged to submit a poem or short story on the theme “Animal Tales,” telling about an animal that played an important role in their lives. They responded enthusiastically with entries that celebrated pets, wild animals, sea […]