Bristol Public Library

Help the Friends support the library! LOTS of new or nearly-new gift-quality items! Happy Holidays!

Adult Winter Reading reading returns with 2021-22 Winter Escape! This year videos, e-books & audiobooks count if they are checkout from the library! Materials from the Libby and Hoopla apps count as well. Register online (CLICK HERE) or pick up a Winter Reading packet at the Circulation Desk. As always, earn prizes and no charge!

It’s official! NYT Best Selling author Marie Benedict will be joining us for an online Fireside Chat on February 17, 2022! The 2022 Fireside Chat with Marie Benedict is the latest internationally known author program the library has been able to arrange for the Bristol community, following Stuart O’Nan, Christina Baker Kline, Martha Hall Kelly, […]

The  Friends of the Bristol Public Library have announced that they will be holding a full-sized book sale September 22-25, 2021 to make up for the sale lost to COVID earlier this year. The Friends are not currently accepting  donations of books and other materials but will be once again starting  October 1, 2021. The […]

The Friends  of the Bristol Public Library have announced that the Friends’ Bookstore will expand it’s Temporary Hours.  The Book store will is currently open Wednesdays, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM, and will add hours on Mondays, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM, beginning on March 22, 2021. The Friends continue to explores the possibility of furthers increases bookstore  hours […]

Bristol Public Library is open for full services on Sundays this Winter: For more information please contact the Reference Desk @ 860.584.7787 x 4.

OverDrive has acquired RBmedia’s library business, RBdigital. This means that the titles purchased from RBdigital will be transferred to OverDrive, where readers will enjoy access to all the same great ebooks and audiobooks in the popular Libby app. Now that this transfer is complete, the RBdigital platform and app will be retired. If you currently […]