- Armaments and Ammo
- Armaments and Ammo: Trunk
- Bottlecaps
- Collectible: Bobblehead: Intelligence
- Collectible: Required Reading: MassachusettsSurgical Journal
- Crafting: Chemistry Station (2)
- Crafting: Cooking Station
- Danger: Grenades!
- Danger: Tripwires!
- Danger: Turrets!
- Faction: Super Mutants
- Faction: Robots
- Faction: Character: Dalen
- Health or Chems
This was the largest repository of historical documentation in the Commonwealth and a well-visited location before the bombs dropped. Decades of neglect, water damage, looting, and vandalism ruined all the books stored here. The building still has a grandeur and is accessed either by a side entrance (Advanced) or by a subterranean entrance at Copley Station, under the main building. Super Mutants roam these halls now.
The interior of Copley Station is a Super Mutant lair, with two traders already mauled in the north end of the subway car. There’s another entrance into Boston Public Library here (Advanced).
The main library interior has only one magazine of required reading, but a lot of required bleeding on behalf of the Super Mutants you should be culling. Watch for Protectrons too; they are hostile if you break in, but if you use the intercom near every door into the library, and pass a speech challenge, you can get permission and have them allied to you. Be sure to investigate the west hall; the library storage room key is on the desk in the west hall (north end). It opens the door (Master) off the server room to the northwest. Don’t leave without the Bobblehead!
Certain municipal buildings (like this library and police station) have book return terminals where overdue books you can scavenge can be dropped off in return for tickets. The book return terminals offer tokens as well as some plastic prizes (and toothpaste or gum) you can decorate your abodes (or mouth) with.