Perkins Library

03/20/2026

Are you passionate about your music listening? 🎶 We want to hear from you! Sharing information about your relationship to music, and how you enjoy it, will help us determine how we can best serve our patron base. This survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete.

Take the survey: https://bit.ly/4rZYChQ

03/19/2026

LEGO has announced plans to release new LEGO bricks that display braille letters and numbers to help increase literacy for children who are blind or have low vision. 🧱 Read more: https://bit.ly/4rN5cry

LEGO recently unveiled plans to roll out a set of bricks for use by the visually impaired. Using each LEGO brick’s 3-by-2 grid of raised dots, the educational toy includes bricks imprinted with every letter, number, and mathematical symbol in the braille alphabet. Why LEGOs? Well, the American Pri...

03/18/2026

With the commemoration of America's 250th anniversary and the celebration of Women's History Month both underway, we're highlighting books all about women's rights movements throughout our country's history. ✊

Thanks to MBLC and Massachusetts Center for the Book for putting the list together! Books available at Perkins Library in accessible formats can be found at Perkins.org/MA250

📗 The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
Available in audio and large print

📗 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Available in audio

📗 Sexual Politics by Kate Millett
Available in audio

📗 Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement by Cathleen D. Cahill
Available in audio

📗 Women’s Right to Vote by Kate Messner
Available in audio and braille

📗 The ABCs of Women’s History by Rio Cortez
Available in audio

03/17/2026

Happy Saint Patrick's Day from our office leprechaun (and retired guide dog), Jazzy! ☘️

03/16/2026

The Boston Tax Help Coalition offers free and provides necessary accommodations for taxpayers with . Area residents earning an annual income of $70,000 or less are eligible.

🗓️ Every Saturday, now through April 15, 2026
🕙 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
📍 Kirstein Business & Innovation Center at Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

By appointment only. Learn more: Boston.gov/Disability-Tax-Help

03/15/2026

3D printing is incredible! A printing method from Harvard now allows robots to move more like muscles, making way for future advancements in precision for assistive technology. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Oo0Mcb

Harvard engineers created rotational multimaterial 3D printing that embeds air channels in soft robotic parts, enabling hand-like motion without molds.

03/14/2026

Tomorrow night (March 15), live audio description will be provided by Descriptive Video Works on the secondary audio program channel (SAP) for ABC and Hulu's presentation of the The Academy Awards. 🎥

The Oscars Red Carpet Show will start at 6:30 p.m. ET and award ceremony coverage will start at 7:00 p.m. ET.

03/13/2026

The film industry doesn’t typically have the best track record for highlighting actors with disabilities. But, casting actors with lived experience directly enhances a role’s authenticity and shows why representation matters! 🎥 Check out these Oscar-nominated movies that feature actors with the disabilities they are portraying:

🍿 Bugonia (2025): Aidan Delbis as Don

🍿 Marty Supreme (2025): Koto Kawaguchi as Koto Endo

🍿 Wicked (2024): Marissa Bode as Nessarose Thropp

🍿 A Different Man (2024): Adam Pearson as Oswald

🍿 CODA (2021): Marlee Matlin as Jackie Rossi, Troy Kotsur as Frank Rossi, and Daniel Durant as Leo Rossi

🍿 Feeling Through (2019): Robert Tarango as Artie

🍿 The Best Years of Our Lives (1948): Harold Russell as Homer Parrish

03/12/2026

Although progress may seem slow at times, there are still reasons to celebrate the advancements being made in assistive technology for veterans. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qL10Yt

Explore how new mobility and prosthetic technology is improving independence for veterans — from VA-supported research to innovations shaping care in 2026.

03/11/2026

For our next Perkins Library Without Walls, singer, songwriter, disability advocate, and Perkins alum, Ellis Hall will join filmmaker Raouf Zaki of RA Vision Productions, Inc. to discuss a short documentary which explores Ellis’s life, music, and journey with blindness.

🗓️ Tuesday, March 17, 2026
🕑 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
📍 Perkins Library Tele-Fun Zoom room

To register for Perkins Library Without Walls, call 617-972-7852 and follow the prompts.

03/10/2026

Karoline Pakenaite from the UK has been training for the past three years to become the first person to climb Mount Everest. 🏔️ Join us in rooting for her when she takes on this challenge in May! Read more: https://bbc.in/3MOzqv8

Karolina Pakenaite, 29, has Usher syndrome which causes progressive hearing and sight loss.

03/09/2026

You may have noticed the Paralympic symbol (the "Agitos") and the MilanoCortina2026 Paralympic mascot, Milo! But do you know what they signify? 🏅

The Paralympic Agitos ("I move" in Latin) launched in 2004 as a modernization of the previous Paralympic symbol. The comprise three swooshes, each a different color (red, blue, and green) to represent the most common colors used in national flags around the world. The thin point of each swoosh starts near a central point, representing the gathering of athletes. The forward momentum of the design signifies Paralympic athletes' drive to keep moving and never give up.

Milo is a brown stoat, an animal known for speed, agility, and adaptability, all qualities of Paralympic athletes. Born with one leg, he uses his long tail to aid himself with mobility. Milo is named after the host city of Milan and his mascot sister, Tina, is named after the host town of Cortina d'Ampezzo.

What is your favorite Paralympic sport? 🥇 🥈 🥉