News & Announcements

The Office of the City Clerk and the Portsmouth Public Library invite you to register to vote or update your voter registration, at one of two voter registration sessions at the Portsmouth Public Library. Attend either of the two sessions on Wednesday, October 18 from 11 AM until 12:30 PM or Tuesday, October 24 from 4 until 5:30 PM.

We are pleased to announce a SPECIAL GUEST coming this month – author and illustrator David McPhail will be at the library reading from his latest book, Truffle and doing some live drawing as well as answering questions!  Mr.

Asteroid City
2023. Rated PG-13. Runtime 105 minutes

We are pleased to extend our Summer Yoga classes through September 19 with a new earlier start time in September! We are grateful to have experienced yoga practitioner, Sage Clarke back to offer three additional free weekly yoga classes from September 5 to September 19 in the library garden!

Guitar Sundays are back! This month's performance features classical guitarist, Colin Davin at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC). Due to the Thunder Over NH Air Show, the September performance will begin at 6 PM.  

Rushmore
1998. Rated R. Runtime 93 minutes. 

A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.

Presented by the library’s Special Collections staff and members of the Ranger Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), these events are free, open to the public, and appropriate for all levels of interest and experience. All levels will learn something new!

Join us for an evening of haunted stories of the New Hampshire Seacoast told by Roxie Zwicker of New England Curiosities! Roxie is the author of Haunted Portsmouth and the New Hampshire Book of the Dead.

Brave Shakespeareans, we venture into the cool mists of autumn as courageously as the fierce general of Athens’ Golden Age! If you’ve not guessed it by now, it is with deepest pride that we announce our group’s premier discussion of Pericles!

The Portsmouth Public Library is creating a new Strategic Plan and we have received over 2300 responses to our recent survey which will help with the planning.

We will hold  three community forums to  tease out some questions through a discussion with the community.