Please bring non-perishable canned goods to the library when you come to have your fines waived. All items will be donated to the Belmont Food Pantry to support those in need.

1968 was one of the most memorable and turbulent years in American history, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, inner-city riots, campus takeovers, and, looming over everything, the war in Vietnam.  The Game is the story of that iconic American year, as seen through an unforgettable group of young athletes who battled in the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale football game.

Author George Howe Colt

All are welcome to attend this free program.  Refreshments will be provided.  Books will be available for purchase and signing.  The Assembly Room is handicapped accessible.  This program made possible by the Friends of the Belmont Public Library.  Click here to learn how to join the Friends or renew your membership.

You provide the pumpkin—we provide the party!

Join the Belmont Recreation Department and the Library for crafting fun -just in time for Halloween. Grades K-3 can decorate their pumpkins, and grades 4 and above have the option to carve. We’ll have staff on hand to help with your creation.

This party is BYO Pumpkin. Register online with the Library or the Recreation Department, or call (617) 993-2760.

The Belmont Historical Society is pleased to sponsor a free field trip to the MGH Museum of Medical History and Innovation. The visit will include a guided and self-guided tour of the museum which contains interactive media displays, old and new medical instruments, and research stories. This will be followed by a tour of the famous Bulfinch Building (1821) and its Ether Dome.

Registration is required for this program. To register, please click on the link above, call the library’s Reference Desk at 617-993-2870, or ask a reference staff member the next time you’re in the library.

Notice anything different about our website? In honor of and to raise awareness for our One Book One Belmont 2018 selection, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, we turned our website green (and purple, and light purple).

We’re also hosting a whole month of events, check out the calendar below, and visit our One Book One Belmont dedicated website, onebookonebelmont.com, for more information.

This Thursday, two experts will share thoughts and insights on artificial intelligence and its relation to fake news and microchips.

Harvard Professor Gu-Yeon Wei will discuss “deep learning”—machines solving problems and making predictions by identifying patterns and sifting through massive amounts of data— and how its being incorporated into everyday technology.

Then, AI researcher and founder of News-to-US, Dr. Bryan Loyall will turn our attention to how modern technology influences news consumption in his talk, Misinformation, Disinformation and Fake News — The shape of the problem and why it is likely to get worse before it gets better. Fake news, misinformation and disinformation came to many people’s attention during the 2016 presidential election, but it has not gone away now that the election is over. Rather, it has arguably gotten worse, and many of the fundamentals in the technology and societal landscape that enabled it to emerge at such a large scale remain in place. In this talk we will discuss what we know about misinformation in the modern technology and societal landscape.

Gu-Yeon Wei is Robert and Suzanne Case Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University.
Bryan Loyall, Ph.D. is technologist, researcher and entrepreneur who first focused on the accelerating misinformation problem in 2007.

Sponsored by the Belmont Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Belmont Public Library and Library Friends.