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Contact Information
Address: 345 Main St, Wakefield, MA 01880

Telephone: (781) 619-1100

Email: [mailto:email@wakefieldlibrary.org email@wakefieldlibrary.org]

Website: https://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/

Hours of Operation: https://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/visit/

Directions/Parking Map: https://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/visit/#Directions

Tips for Your Visit
Parking in front of the library and most of Wakefield is limited to two hours between 8 am and 6 pm. Public transit options are the 137 bus to Water Street at Wakefield Square and the Haverhill line of the Commuter Rail to Wakefield.

There are public computers available on the first floor for three hours of use. Ask a reference librarian for a guest pass if you don’t have a library card in the NOBLE network. Wi-fi is available throughout the building for patron use. Printing (both wireless and from the public computers) is available through donation. Microfilm and book scanning are free.

Local history and quiet study are in the Red Room by the Main Street Entrance. Nonfiction and circulating reference books are on the second floor. The microfilm is by the photocopier on the first floor in the Reference Area. Archival material is in the Treasure Room; access is limited to staff who can bring out items.

Description of Collections
The local history material at the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library focuses on Wakefield, Massachusetts and the surrounding area. Certain collections have been digitized and placed on the Internet Archive thanks to a grant administered by the Boston Public Library and federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Other materials are available for photocopying and staff can send photocopies to individuals who cannot come to Beebe Library in person. Further information about Beebe Library's local genealogy collection can be found on the library's website.

Digitized

 * Death Records – An online database includes basic death record information for people whose deaths were registered in Wakefield. Information is taken from published town annual reports. The database currently includes almost 31,600 deaths from January 1850 through December 2016.
 * Street Lists - Street lists list all residents age 17 and over alphabetically, as well as by street. Online copies of the street lists are available back to 1919 with some gaps.
 * Town Reports - Online copies of Annual Reports of the Town of Wakefield are available back to 1875.
 * Yearbooks - High school yearbooks from Wakefield are available online from 1907 to 2014 with some gaps.
 * Maps - Wakefield was the first public library in Massachusetts to add its historic maps to the Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map Collection. The maps are also included in the library catalog with links to online versions.
 * Yearbooks - High school yearbooks from Wakefield are available online from 1907 to 2014 with some gaps.
 * Maps - Wakefield was the first public library in Massachusetts to add its historic maps to the Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map Collection. The maps are also included in the library catalog with links to online versions.

In-Library Use Only

 * Newspapers – Microfilm of the Wakefield Daily Item from 1891 to the present, the Reading Chronicle (Wakefield Edition) from December 1996 to the present, the Wakefield Observer from January 1998 to the present, and the Wakefield Citizen & Banner from 1872 to 1911. Please note that there are no indexes to any of these newspapers.
 * Town Reports before 1875 - The library owns town reports back to the mid-19th century, including those of South Reading.
 * City Directories - Prior to 1919 the library owns a collection of city directories that include lists of residents back to the early 1870s, but with some gaps.
 * City Directories - Prior to 1919 the library owns a collection of city directories that include lists of residents back to the early 1870s, but with some gaps.

Wakipedia
Wakipedia is an online wiki encyclopedia of current and historical information about the town Wakefield, Massachusetts. It is not currently open to public editing. Those interested in contributing can call or email Reference.
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