News & Announcements

How do I listen to an audiobook using Libby or Hoopla? Can I send a picture with a text? How do I pair Bluetooth headphones? What are apps?!

Get one-on-one help with these questions and more during our drop in device help time at the library. From library digital services to Microsoft and Macs, all questions are welcome!

Join Portsmouth Public library in welcoming Amanda Lovelace (she/they) and Parker Lee (they/them) for a poetry reading and Q&A over Zoom!

Join us at PMAC, Portsmouth Music and Arts Center, for a free concert featuring highly acclaimed classical guitarist, John Muratore, who performs regularly as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician.

Join us on Sunday, April 2 from 2-4 PM to meet the artists and view their work at the reception for the annual exhibit of SPLASH! This exhibit will feature a wide array of stunning creations that showcase the innovative, inspiring minds of our Visual Arts students from grades K-12.

Join Bob & Barb Maurais from Mainely Ticks on Thursday April 20 from 6:30-8 PM  to learn strategies to better protect your family from the ever-increasing threat of ticks and tick-borne diseases.

Join us for an intermediate knitting class to learn the intarsia technique! Registration is required. 

Join historian Sam Collins, former curator of the Vaughn Cottage Museum on Star Island, to explore the historical records of the Isles of Shoals. We'll dig into the wide range of archival materials both on the islands and on the mainland.

Learn about the relationship between Indigenous representation in public library local history collections and the collective understanding of the land now known as New Hampshire.

“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build a defense against repetition.” - Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust Survivor