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2025 Year in Review
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Cambridge Public Library highlights the ways we are working to make the community a better place with the release of our 2025 Year in Review. The selection of achievements shines a spotlight on services and celebrates how the library helps our community shape the wonderous story of everyone.
Ella Morton, Roadside Mountains, 2024. Lightjet print from soaked film and mordançage, 24” x 30” & 16”x20”, edition of 10 + 2AP total. Image courtesy of the artist.
Ella Morton: The Residue of Starlight
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After years documenting polar extremes, photographer Ella Morton has turned her lens to another sublime landscape: the desert. The Residue of Starlight uses experimental analogue processes and expired film to capture the fragility and resilience of desert landscapes across three continents.
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Staff Book Review: Dandelion
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Book review by Shawna Bauer-Kenyon, Information Services Librarian, Queen's SquareDandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022. 262 pages.Like the seeds of a dandelion drifting on the wind, people migrate and settle in new places far different from where they began their life.
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Staff Book Review: Murder by Memory
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Book review by Sarah, Information Services Librarian, Queen's Square.Murder by Memory, by Olivia Waite. New York, Tordotcom, 2025. 103 pages.Take a romp through space with Olivia Waite’s science fiction/cozy mystery, Murder by Memory. 
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Practice Your English
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Through programs and collections, Cambridge Public Library serves as a supportive and inclusive community hub. The Practice Your English program is a perfect example of a program we offer to bring community members together through learning and conversation.
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Staff Book Review: These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
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Book review by Jessica Singh, Member Services SupervisorThese Memories Do Not Belong to Us, by Yiming Ma, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2025. 209 pages
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New Hoopla BingePasses
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Want to borrow more content from Hoopla without using all your monthly borrows? Hoopla has added more BingePasses, giving library members greater access to books, movies, and TV shows to make it through these last weeks of winter.
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Staff Book Review: No Straight Road Takes You There
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Book review by Phil, Information SpecialistNo Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain, by Rebecca Solnit, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025. 176 pages.The central thread weaving through Rebecca Solnit’s recent collection of essays is the idea of hope.
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New to the Virtual Library
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There have been some exciting additions to the Virtual Library:LearningExpress Library is a new online learning resource to help grow your skills and prepare you for taking tests for career and educational advancement.Syndetics Unbound enhances the current library catalogue to help you find that next great book. It suggests similar titles and provides in-depth information on authors and related works. 
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New at the Library: AuraLoop+ Counter System
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Library service desks can be busy places and sometimes it isn’t easy to make out every word in a conversation, especially for those who are hard of hearing. This is an instance in which Cambridge Public Library’s new AuraLoop+ assistive hearing devices can help to make using library collections and services more accessible and welcoming.