Enjoy these recent submissions by staff and community members of their favorite poems! Thank you to Jeff, Edana, Julia, and David for their recent submissions! All during the month of April, National Poetry Month, we are inviting the community to submit a favorite poem to be shared online through BAPL. Poems can be submitted in […]
During the month of April, National Poetry Month, we are inviting the community to submit a favorite poem to be shared online through BAPL. Poems can be submitted in Video, Audio, or Text form and entrees will be reviewed before being put online. Our goal is to give patrons the opportunity to share their favorite […]
Inaugural Lehigh Valley Book Festival March 27, 28 & 29, 2020 Let’s Play Books Bookstore, in partnership with the Bethlehem Area Public Library, is proud to present the Inaugural Lehigh Valley Book Festival, to be held annually, the last weekend in March, commencing in 2020. Join us as we celebrate books – their authors, illustrators, […]
You may know that libraries, BAPL included, host a wide variety of events in addition to being the place where people come to check out books or do research. We host programs such as book sales, mindfulness training, children’s programs, films, concerts, even birthday parties. But did you know that we sometimes host them all […]
The Bethlehem Area Public Library is hosting a book-signing by one of its own on October 30. Award-winning author Kate Racculia, an employee at BAPL, will be signing copies of Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts on October 30 at 6:30pm. The event will be held at the Main Library. Books will be available for purchase […]
This one goes to eleven. The Bethlehem Area Public Library is really embracing a theme for a concert to be held at the Main Library on November 11. Yes, the date is 11/11. The library’s address is 11 W. Church St. The library’s public recording studio is called “Studio 11,” and the event is called […]
Congratulations to our Week 10 2019 Adult Summer Reading winners at the Bethlehem Area Public Library! Main Branch Week Ten prize recipient, David W, won a 1 Year Black Membership to Planet Fitness of Bethlehem. South Side Branch Week Ten prize recipient, Tina E., won a Land and Sea Gift Basket. That concludes our Adult Summer […]
Congratulations to our Week 9 2019 Adult Summer Reading winners at the Bethlehem Area Public Library! Main Branch Week Nine prize recipient, Karen G., won a $50 Gift Card to Fegley’s Brew Works. South Side Branch Week Nine prize recipient, Luz S., won a $20 Gift Card to Jenny’s Kuali. Our Adult Summer Reading Program wraps up […]
Congratulations to our Week 8 2019 Adult Summer Reading winners at the Bethlehem Area Public Library! Main Branch Week Eight prize recipient, Betsy S., won a $30 Gift Card to the People’s Kitchen. South Side Branch Week Eight prize recipient, Barbara D., won a $20 Gift Card to Zoellner Arts Center. Our Adult Summer Reading Program continues […]
Congratulations to our Week 7 2019 Adult Summer Reading winners at the Bethlehem Area Public Library! Main Branch Week Seven prize recipient, Suzanne B, won a $20 Gift Card to LIT Coffeeshop. South Side Branch Week Seven prize recipient, Kalea C., won a “Sci-Fi Nerd” Gift Basket. Our Adult Summer Reading Program continues this week with $30 […]
“My work, though not narrative, is a story,” says painter James Gloria. The setting of that story will be very familiar to local residents as his new exhibit at the Bethlehem Area Public Library is a series of landscapes documenting the Delaware River. There are sunrises and water gaps and places like Shawnee Island and […]
Congratulations to our Week 6 2019 Adult Summer Reading winners at the Bethlehem Area Public Library! Main Branch Week Five prize recipient, Christine M., won a $40.00 gift card to Arts Quest. South Side Branch Week Five prize recipient, Josephine S., won a $20.00 gift card to Arts Quest. Our Adult Summer Reading Program continues this week with a gift […]
Congratulations to our Week 4 2019 Adult Summer Reading winners at the Bethlehem Area Public Library! Main Branch Week Four prize recipient, Ruth G., won a $25 gift card to Bethlehem Dairy Store (AKA The Cup). South Side Branch Week Four prize recipient, Bonnie S., won a $20.00 gift card to Domaci Home Store. Our Adult […]
Congratulations to our Week 5 2019 Adult Summer Reading winners at the Bethlehem Area Public Library! Main Branch Week Five prize recipient, Missy B, won a $25.00 gift card to Backdoor Bakeshop. South Side Branch Week Five prize recipient, Anne E, won a $15.00 gift card to Carlos’ Bakery. Our Adult Summer Reading Program continues this week with a $40 gift card […]
Congratulations to our Week Three 2019 Adult Summer Reading winners at the Bethlehem Area Public Library! Main Branch Week Three prize recipient, Amy G., won two Bethlehem Multi-site Museum Passes to Bethlehem Historic Museum & Sites. South Side Branch Week Three prize recipient, Carlos R., won a $20.00 gift card to Lehigh University Book Store (Barnes and Nobles). Our Adult […]