Norwell Public Library

Happy Valentine's Day! This kit contains the instructions and materials to make one Valentine's-themed windsock. All ages. Registration required to secure your kit. You may pick up any time during the week. Any unclaimed kits will be put out for the general public the following week.…Learn More

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Honoring the battles of King Philip’s War after 350 years (1676). Celebrating 300 years of the Jacobs Farmhouse (1726). Saluting 250 years America (1776). Join the Norwell Historical Society for their 2026 kick-off event! Historian Stephen O’Neill will showcase 10 items that speak to this historic year.…Learn More

Friends of the Norwell Public Library.

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Happy Valentine's Day! This kit contains the instructions and materials to make one Valentine's-themed windsock. All ages. Registration required to secure your kit. You may pick up any time during the week. Any unclaimed kits will be put out for the general public the following week.…Learn More

Meet other parents and play with age appropriate materials for birth-12 months. Registration appreciated.

This crafternoon we will be making mosaic tile coasters with plenty of different colors to choose from for your design!This craft is for grades 6 through 12, guardians are welcome to join their teen.

One-on-One Help Have a question about email, the internet, using your phone, using library eBooks, or streaming movies through Kanopy? Bring your device or use the computer here at the library. No appointment needed.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, make a stamped Valentine's canvas to give to a loved one! We'll use acrylic paint and cardboard tubes to stamp our design (so please dress for mess). For children ages 5 and up with caregiver present. Registration required.

Read to Spider, a certified therapy dog! You may bring a book or choose one from the library. No registration required. First come, first served.

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Happy Valentine's Day! This kit contains the instructions and materials to make one Valentine's-themed windsock. All ages. Registration required to secure your kit. You may pick up any time during the week. Any unclaimed kits will be put out for the general public the following week.…Learn More

This 60-minute yin style yoga class focuses on postures held in stillness while concepts of mindfulness are woven into the class narrative. The held postures focus on strengthening targeted areas of dense connective tissue. Breathwork is used to stimulate the energy systems in the body while at the same time bringing calm to the mind to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.…Learn More

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Wanita Rose Gomes, American born, 1945, with Cape Verde heritage. She attended New England School of Art and Design, 1964 to 1965 Studied fashion and patterns at London Academy, 1972 to 1975 Art Instructor, continue; Custom Framing, on going; Quick Portrait Drawing; Visual Artist using Water Color, Acrylic, Oil, pastel, and graphite Exhibited in the New England area Affiliated to Brockton Arts, member of Art From Heart Art is part of my life and I would not feel whole without it.…Learn More

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Drop by the Children's Studio after school and build with our Legos! Please leave your own Legos at home. Best for children age 6 and up, caregivers must remain in the library.

This 60 -minute yang style yoga class focuses on thoughtful sequencing of postures and stretches with slow flow movement. The gentle and accessible movements and stretches focus on the larger muscle groups. The class also includes breathwork and meditation to help center and calm the mind to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.…Learn More

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Drop by during vacation week and make friendship bracelets. We will have assorted beads and pipe cleaners available for easy stringing and tying on. Keep them for yourself or share them with friends, family, or loved ones! While supplies last, no registration required.…Learn More

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Meet other parents and play with age appropriate materials for birth-12 months. Registration appreciated.

Drop by during vacation week and make friendship bracelets. We will have assorted beads and pipe cleaners available for easy stringing and tying on. Keep them for yourself or share them with friends, family, or loved ones! While supplies last, no registration required.…Learn More

One-on-One Help Have a question about email, the internet, using your phone, using library eBooks, or streaming movies through Kanopy? Bring your device or use the computer here at the library. No appointment needed.

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

It's a vacation week double feature! Join us first for Freaky Friday (PG) from 2003, a remake of the 1977 classic based on Mary Rodgers' book of the same name. Please bring a blanket to sit on, some chairs will be available. Caregivers must remain with children under 8.…Learn More

It's a vacation week double feature! Our second film is Freakier Friday (PG) from 2025, a sequel to the 2003 film with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reprising their roles. Please bring a blanket to sit on, some chairs will be available. Caregivers must remain with children under 8.…Learn More

Come meet Skipper, a therapy dog who loves pats and being read to! Register for a 15-minute slot for one-on-one reading time with Skipper and his mom, NHS school psychologist. Please bring a book or select one from the library's collection before your scheduled reading time.

Come meet Skipper, a therapy dog who loves pats and being read to! Register for a 15-minute slot for one-on-one reading time with Skipper and his mom, NHS school psychologist. Please bring a book or select one from the library's collection before your scheduled reading time.

Come meet Skipper, a therapy dog who loves pats and being read to! Register for a 15-minute slot for one-on-one reading time with Skipper and his mom, NHS school psychologist. Please bring a book or select one from the library's collection before your scheduled reading time.

Come meet Skipper, a therapy dog who loves pats and being read to! Register for a 15-minute slot for one-on-one reading time with Skipper and his mom, NHS school psychologist. Please bring a book or select one from the library's collection before your scheduled reading time.

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

The Norwell Public Library is excited to host the South of Boston Board Game Meetup on Saturday from 10:00 a. m. -4:00 p. m. The group began as an inclusive community of board gamers in the South Shore area and beyond. Their goal is to bring people together to share their love of board games in a welcoming and friendly environment.…Learn More

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Capital Budget Committee

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Join Christine from Little Bee Yoga for 45 minutes of beginning yoga for both caregiver and child ages 2-6. Enjoy fun poses, music, stories, breathing exercises, and guided relaxations. Children grade 3 and under must be accompanied by a caregiver. Registration required, please bring your own yoga mat.

Big Ryan’s Tall Tales welcomes all parents and their children (3-5 years) to this weekly series on making stories and language come alive. This playgroup is coordinated in association with the Norwell Public Library, and space is limited. You can register online by following this link: https://www.…Learn More

This month, we will be reading Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray. In 1919, as civil and social unrest grips the country, there is a little corner of America, a place called Harlem where something special is stirring. Here, the New Negro is rising and Black pride is evident everywhere…in music, theatre, fashion and the arts.…Learn More

Norwell Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

The Norwell High School Jazz Combo is a small group of students who have been involved in the jazz program for multiple years. While some of them got their start in jazz performance as early as Middle School, others started at NHS in our Jazz Workshop or Jazz Ensemble courses.…Learn More

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

Meet other parents and play with age appropriate materials for birth-12 months. Registration appreciated.

This month we will be reading: James by Percival EverettNominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2024), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2024)A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewWhen Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan.…Learn More

One-on-One Help Have a question about email, the internet, using your phone, using library eBooks, or streaming movies through Kanopy? Bring your device or use the computer here at the library. No appointment needed.

For our next teen taste testing we will be trying red and blue flavored candies and pitting them against one another to see which is better. Will is be red? Will it be blue? We shall see!If you have an allergy please be sure to let the teen librarian know at bvitagliano@norwell.…Learn More

This month we celebrate the Winter Olympics! Find all the line drawings of different winter sports in the Children's Room this month.

This 60 -minute yang style yoga class focuses on thoughtful sequencing of postures and stretches with slow flow movement. The gentle and accessible movements and stretches focus on the larger muscle groups. The class also includes breathwork and meditation to help center and calm the mind to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.…Learn More

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Capital Budget Committee

Big Ryan’s Tall Tales welcomes all parents and their children (3-5 years) to this weekly series on making stories and language come alive. This playgroup is coordinated in association with the Norwell Public Library, and space is limited. You can register online by following this link: https://www.…Learn More

This 60-minute yin style yoga class focuses on postures held in stillness while concepts of mindfulness are woven into the class narrative. The held postures focus on strengthening targeted areas of dense connective tissue. Breathwork is used to stimulate the energy systems in the body while at the same time bringing calm to the mind to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.…Learn More

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Meet other parents and play with age appropriate materials for birth-12 months. Registration appreciated.

One-on-One Help Have a question about email, the internet, using your phone, using library eBooks, or streaming movies through Kanopy? Bring your device or use the computer here at the library. No appointment needed.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Big Ryan’s Tall Tales welcomes all parents and their children (3-5 years) to this weekly series on making stories and language come alive. This playgroup is coordinated in association with the Norwell Public Library, and space is limited. You can register online by following this link: https://www.…Learn More

Six-time Boston Parent Paper Family Favorite and National Touring Musician, Music at the Blissful (Evan Haller) from Boston, Massachusetts returns to the Norwell Public Library for a high-energy, fun-filled, interactive, movement-packed music experience for the whole family.…Learn More

Friends of the Norwell Public Library.

Meet other parents and play with age appropriate materials for birth-12 months. Registration appreciated.

One-on-One Help Have a question about email, the internet, using your phone, using library eBooks, or streaming movies through Kanopy? Bring your device or use the computer here at the library. No appointment needed.

Read to Spider, a certified therapy dog! You may bring a book or choose one from the library. No registration required. First come, first served.

This 60-minute yin style yoga class focuses on postures held in stillness while concepts of mindfulness are woven into the class narrative. The held postures focus on strengthening targeted areas of dense connective tissue. Breathwork is used to stimulate the energy systems in the body while at the same time bringing calm to the mind to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.…Learn More

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Big Ryan’s Tall Tales welcomes all parents and their children (3-5 years) to this weekly series on making stories and language come alive. This playgroup is coordinated in association with the Norwell Public Library, and space is limited. You can register online by following this link: https://www.…Learn More

This 60 -minute yang style yoga class focuses on thoughtful sequencing of postures and stretches with slow flow movement. The gentle and accessible movements and stretches focus on the larger muscle groups. The class also includes breathwork and meditation to help center and calm the mind to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.…Learn More

Norwell Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

In recognition of March being Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month we are proud to present the film: Temple Grandin. Pizza at 5:30pm followed by film around 5:45pm and a discussion after led by the Norwell Commission on Disabilities. A young, autistic woman sees the world like no other, taking snapshots of the world in her mind, and recalling them without thought.…Learn More

We are excited to partner with the American Red Cross on March 19th to launch the first of what we hope will be many blood drives here at the library. We’ll be working together to give back to the community in a truly life changing way since each donation we collect can save up to three lives.…Learn More

Meet other parents and play with age appropriate materials for birth-12 months. Registration appreciated.

One-on-One Help Have a question about email, the internet, using your phone, using library eBooks, or streaming movies through Kanopy? Bring your device or use the computer here at the library. No appointment needed.

This 60 -minute yang style yoga class focuses on thoughtful sequencing of postures and stretches with slow flow movement. The gentle and accessible movements and stretches focus on the larger muscle groups. The class also includes breathwork and meditation to help center and calm the mind to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.…Learn More

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Join Christine from Little Bee Yoga for 45 minutes of beginning yoga for both caregiver and child ages 2-6. Enjoy fun poses, music, stories, breathing exercises, and guided relaxations. Children grade 3 and under must be accompanied by a caregiver. Registration required, please bring your own yoga mat.

Big Ryan’s Tall Tales welcomes all parents and their children (3-5 years) to this weekly series on making stories and language come alive. This playgroup is coordinated in association with the Norwell Public Library, and space is limited. You can register online by following this link: https://www.…Learn More

Raptors, foxes, coyotes, and other predators keep our ecosystems in balance. Learn about the Rescue Raptors Campaign and how you can contribute to saving wildlife from SGARS (Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides). Find out how to control rodents without poison.…Learn More

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Join the Norwell Historical Society for a special presentation featuring historian Marjory Gomez O’Toole as she examines King Philip’s War, 350 years after the 1676 fighting in today’s Norwell. She will discuss slavery, the little-known secret behind the fighting, and teach us why history rarely mentions this troubling fact.…Learn More

This month we will be reading: James by Percival EverettNominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2024), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2024)A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewWhen Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan.…Learn More

Meet other parents and play with age appropriate materials for birth-12 months. Registration appreciated.

One-on-One Help Have a question about email, the internet, using your phone, using library eBooks, or streaming movies through Kanopy? Bring your device or use the computer here at the library. No appointment needed.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

This month we meet on a Tuesday, we will be reading Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.…Learn More

Drop by the Children's Studio after school and build with our Legos! Please leave your own Legos at home. Best for children age 6 and up, caregivers must remain in the library.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Meet other parents and play with age appropriate materials for birth-12 months. Registration appreciated.

One-on-One Help Have a question about email, the internet, using your phone, using library eBooks, or streaming movies through Kanopy? Bring your device or use the computer here at the library. No appointment needed.

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.

Drop by the Children's Studio after school and build with our Legos! Please leave your own Legos at home. Best for children age 6 and up, caregivers must remain in the library.

This 60-minute yin style yoga class focuses on postures held in stillness while concepts of mindfulness are woven into the class narrative. The held postures focus on strengthening targeted areas of dense connective tissue. Breathwork is used to stimulate the energy systems in the body while at the same time bringing calm to the mind to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.…Learn More

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. Please sign up for each week you are interested in attending.