Boston Public Library

Boston Public Library is a location appearing in Fallout 4.

Layout
The library is O-shaped with an open patio in the center. The whole place is inhabited by protectrons and MKI turrets. It is also filled with super mutants of varying strengths depending on level. A booby trap with a grenade bouquet can be found inside at the western entrance.

It is also connected to Copley Station.

Notable loot

 * Intelligence bobblehead located in the mechanical room (northwestern side of building, 2nd floor, room has a closed but unlocked door on approach).
 * Stealth Boy and bottlecap mine are located in the supply room off the northern room that contains the Intelligence bobblehead behind a master locked door. The key can be found in the previous room in the northeast corner next to a terminal.
 * Massachusetts Surgical Journal located in the southwest room as a prize from the Book Return Terminal. Requires 50 book return tokens, equivalent to 10 overdue books. Its on the 2nd floor beside the entrance from Back Bay. The other return machine doesn't have surgical journal reward.
 * Six overdue books:
 * Three in the mechanical room (the one where the Bobblehead is), they're on the left side of the room upon entering near the two sleeping bags and army ammo container.
 * One in the women's restroom in a stall
 * One in the main reading room on a shelf
 * One in the secondary reading room on a desk
 * Vault-Tec lunchbox on a table in the southwest room, near the overdue book machine (look right/east when facing the machine). Another lunchbox can be found in the underground station, in a baby carriage. You may wish to overturn the baby carriage as when the lunchbox is opened the prize may fall through the ground.

Related quests

 * Public Knowledge - Clear out Super Mutants and return Daisy's book. (quest starts in Goodneighbor).

Appearances
Boston Public Library only appears in Fallout 4.

Cut Content
Curator Givens' terminal logs make mention of "compressing" data and infers that the player can "help the cause" and seems to point to the large data computer where the bobblehead is, but no further clues are found. If you turn clipping off (tcl) and walk through the actual computer and wall, directly behind where the bobblehead is, you can actually find a terminal just floating in mid-air. Accessing it, it asks if you want to "compress data to holodisc, yes or no?" Selecting yes will update the player with experience and eject the "BPL Compressed Data" holodisc which can then be found under your misc. inventory section. The quest event ID is listed as "DN011 OverdueBooks", which has a stage of "0" and "1000". Stage "1000" gives you the disc and exp., and changes the terminal to say the data has been compressed. Whether the terminal being inaccessible was a level designer's oversight, or intentionally left out of the game is not known. It is also not known if the BPL Compressed Data holodisc has use elsewhere in the game at this time.

Bugs

 * The game may crash when leaving through the front exit.
 * The intercom keeps saying "Hello?" if the door lock was already picked.