Our Story

​For focus group results, click below:

Chinatown Library Report
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For ​the complete report, click below:

2008 Chinatown Library Report
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To view Chinatown's master plan, click here:

Chinatown Master Plan 2010
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History & Activism

• BPL Community Meetings​
  • 1st Meeting: April 25, 2017 (PDF)
  • 2nd Meeting: July 18, 2017 (PDF)
  • 3rd Meeting: October 24, 2017 (PDF)
  • Final Report: December 29, 2017 (PDF)
• “These Words: A Century of Printing, Writing, and Reading in Boston's Chinese Community” Chinese Historical Society of New England exhibition brochure, 2016 (PDF)
• Chinatown Library Focus Groups Report: A report by the Chinese Youth Initiative (CYI) and the Friends of the Chinatown Library (FOCL), 2015 (PDF)
• ​Oak Terrace Reading Room (2012-2013)​
  • "Chinatown Boston Opens Community-run Reading Room,"  Aditi Mehta, CoLab Radio (link with audio), April 23, 2012
• “Overdue, returned, and missing: the changing stories of Boston's Chinatown Branch Library,” Aditi Mehta, MIT Urban Planning Masters Thesis, 2010 (link to download PDF, 147 pages) 
• Chinatown Master Plan 2010: Community Vision for the Future (PDF)
• Storefront library (2009-2010)
  • Official website (link)
  • Blog archive (link)
• “The Boston Chinatown Library: 1896-1938 and 1951-1956” Stephanie Fan, CHSNE Chronicle, 2006 (PDF)