| Forest Park Branch – 380 Belmont Avenue – Springfield MA 01108 |
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Springfield MA 01108
Parking: On-street parking is available on Belmont Avenue and Oakland Street. There are time limits on Belmont.
Book Drop: Located near the side entrance, on the right side of the building as you face the library’s main entrance.
PVTA Bus Route: G2
Manager: Cherokee Lowe
Supervisor: Alexandra Dupuis
The Forest Park Branch will be closed for the following holidays:
| The libraries will be closed on the following dates for holidays: | |
|---|---|
| January 1, 2025 (Monday) | New Year’s Day |
| January 20 (Monday) | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
| February 17 (Monday) | Presidents’ Day |
| April 20 (Sunday) | Easter: Central Library closed |
| April 21 (Monday) | Patriot’s Day (MA holiday) |
| May 26 (Monday) | Memorial Day |
| June 19 (Thursday) | Juneteenth |
| July 4 (Friday) | Independence Day |
| September 1 (Monday) | Labor Day |
| October 13 (Monday) | Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples’ Day |
| November 11 (Tuesday) | Veterans Day |
| November 26 (Wednesday) | Thanksgiving Eve: All libraries close at 5 pm |
| November 27 (Thursday) | Thanksgiving Day |
| December 24 (Wednesday) | Christmas Eve |
| December 25 (Thursday) | Christmas Day |
| December 31 (Wednesday) | New Year’s Eve: All libraries close at 5 pm |
| January 1, 2026 (Thursday) | New Year’s Day |
Fax Service: Fax service is available. There is a $1 per job charge for a traditional fax. We cannot receive faxes. There is no charge to scan your document to an email address, USB, tablet or smartphone. To scan to your smartphone you must have a QR code app.
Mobile Printing: You can easily print on the Central Library’s public printer during library hours from your home computer, laptop or mobile device. Imagine that! You don’t have to be in the Central Library to print but you must pick up the print job on the same day during our open hours.
- Visit print.princh.com
- Enter the six-digit Printer ID: 109297
- Follow the instructions to upload your document. Remember to check the box to accept the Terms and Conditions
- Enter your email address. This will be used to identify you at the print release station
- When you’re finished uploading files, click “Done”
Your printing will be added to our queue, and will be released when you visit the print release station or reference desk to pay for the printing.
To promote neighborhood culture and development, the library makes its community room available for educational, social service, and other organizations. Visit the Meeting Room page for information about booking the Community Room, to review our meeting room rules and policies, and submit a meeting room request.
Forest Park neighborhood residents outgrew the provisional circulating library that was set up at Park Memorial Baptist Church and residents wanted a full service branch library. In 1908, industrialist Andrew Carnegie provided $50,000 for three branch libraries that included Forest Park Branch Library. Carnegie required that neighborhood citizens subscribe for land to match his donation of money for the building. Over 500 prominent Forest Park citizens subscribed for land and soon Forest Park Branch Library was completed in 1909.
The renovated Forest Park Branch Library children’s area, now the Charlie & Joan Ryan Family Place, was made possible through the generosity of the Barker Foundation and Troy and Pat Murray. Honoring former Springfield Mayor Charles V. Ryan and his wife Joan, the creative new space will provide inspiration and learning opportunities for so many area children, just as the original room did for young Charlie and Troy.
Thanks to our benefactors the changes are astonishing, the room looks phenomenal, and the Charlie & Joan Ryan Family Place is ready to welcome all ages.
For more information about the history of the Forest Park Branch, download our brochure.
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