Vacation Week

Sat. Feb. 16 - Sat. Feb. 23
Tessie, movies, crowns and more: February Public School Vacation Week is full of fun! Click here for origami, tinkering and other great programs.

Heritage Films
Sat. Feb. 9 at 2:00 p.m.
"The Great Salem Fire, the Molasses Flood, and the Cocoanut Grove Fire"
Sat. Feb. 23 at 2:00 p.m.
"The Schooner Adventure"
Free and open to the public. (click for more...)

Guided Memoir Workshops
Thursdays, January 10 - February 14,
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Jump-start your memoir, two pages at a time. Explore your life story with flexible themes like family, money, health & wellness, or life's work. Free and open to the public, funded by the Friends and Wenham COA. (click for more...)

Winter Lego Club

Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m.
January 9 – March 27 (*no class 2/20)
Drop-in, non-competitive, non-robotic Lego club. Create, share designs, work individually or as a team. Kindergarten through 5th grade.

Teen Poetry and Flash Fiction Contest
Submit your Music-themed poems or flash fiction for our 9th Annual Teen Poetry and Flash Fiction Contest through March 21 at midnight. Open to Essex County teens in grades 6-12. Click here for rules and more!

Current Exhibit

Posters from the collection of Stephen Lewis are on display at the Hamilton-Wenham Library through January and February.

For library art display information at Hamilton-Wenham, click here.

Hoopla is here!

Download the Hoopla app or go to hoopladigital.com and sign up with your preferred email address, Hamilton-Wenham library card number and library PIN number/password. Borrow up to 4 items per month!

Our Internet Archive collection

Click here to watch our collection of over 70 local videos and interviews at the Internet Archive (archive.org), including the 66 Hamilton-Wenham Times Past videos. Illuminating history!

Safari Books

Are you looking for books on computing, technology, or business? Access 4,960 specific, informative, up-to-date titles through Safari Books. Use your MVLC library card and pin/password for remote access.

Library of Things

Our Library of Things page showcases some of the more unconventional items that you can check out from our library, from board games to microscopes, cookie cutters to 3-D glasses, and much, much more.

Digital Magazines
Flipster is our new digital magazine newsstand, where you can read online versions of regular print magazines. Use your Hamilton-Wenham Library card to access from home. We currently subscribe to Consumer Reports, HGTV, Money, and Time.

New York Times Complimentary Access

Enjoy 24 hours of the New York Times. Register in the library, or visit remotely by clicking here.

Sign up for Wowbrary!

Wowbrary is a service which pulls items recently added to the catalog and compiles them into a weekly list, sorted by subject and format. Sign up today to receive your free weekly Wowbrary email about the newest books, movies, and music at your library.

Download Flipster!

Flipster is our new digital magazine newsstand. Use your Hamilton-Wenham Library card number when accessing from home. You can also put the Flipster app on your mobile device! Download the app from your device’s app store, select “HAMILTON-WENHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY” as your library, and enter your library card number to get started.

Stream Freegal!

Get free and legal music through our library subscription to Freegal: up to five downloads per week, and three hours of streaming per day. Just use your Hamilton-Wenham Library card and PIN or password to sign in. (Additional questions? Click here.)