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Tiger Tech Tips: Help With Your Devices
Tiger Tech Tips: Help With Your Devices
Do you need help with your devices? Having trouble accessing our online resources? Well, have no fear! Our Tiger Tech Tip helpers are here. Alex and JJ, students from Hackettstown High School, can solve your technology issues and show you how to use your devices. No appointment necessary! Just drop in from 4-6pm on Tuesdays […]
Booking & Cooking Cookbook Club
Booking & Cooking Cookbook Club
Join us monthly for an evening of sharing and sampling delicious culinary creations. Browse our collection of cookbooks to find a recipe based on the monthly theme. Then bring your tasty treat along with the recipe to share. Who knows? You may go home with a new favorite recipe! This program is for adults and […]
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Lighthouses of New Jersey
Lighthouses of New Jersey
Learn all about the beacons of New Jersey! This program will detail lighthouse history, structure, and characteristics while also touching on the keepers, governance, and purpose of these majestic lights. This event is for adults, teens, and children ages 6 and up. Coloring and activity sheets will be provided for young learners. Marilyn Dunning and […]
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“Rhythm & Grace” : Discover the Joy of Movement (CANCELLED)
“Rhythm & Grace” : Discover the Joy of Movement (CANCELLED)
Are you an adult who loves to MOVE? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you to learn something new! Join our exclusive sample class and experience dance like never before. We invite you to try a little bit of everything, from gentle stretching to graceful ballet moves, and some energetic jazz moves. "Rhythm […]
Tiger Tech Tips: Help With Your Devices
Tiger Tech Tips: Help With Your Devices
Do you need help with your devices? Having trouble accessing our online resources? Well, have no fear! Our Tiger Tech Tip helpers are here. Alex and JJ, students from Hackettstown High School, can solve your technology issues and show you how to use your devices. No appointment necessary! Just drop in from 4-6pm on Tuesdays […]
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Puzzle Swap Meet
Puzzle Swap Meet
Do you buy puzzles, have a wonderful time putting them together, but then leave them in the closet just to gather dust? Don't buy new ones, come to the library to swap it for one new to you! It's simple: bring a puzzle from home (please make sure they are in good condition and no […]
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Language Exchange Cafe
Language Exchange Cafe
Looking to learn Spanish with native speakers? At the Language Exchange Cafe, native English speakers and native Spanish speakers get together to learn each other's language and have some coffee. It is a fun, immersive, interactive way to build your second language skills. No registration necessary - just show up and have a good time! […]
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Lost Literati: Pearl S. Buck and Victor & Annie Polzer’s 1938 Escape from Vienna
Lost Literati: Pearl S. Buck and Victor & Annie Polzer’s 1938 Escape from Vienna
In March of 1938, Austrian Nazi Party members welcomed Adolph Hitler into Vienna as they welcomed the annexation of Austria by the German Reich. Crowds waved and screamed as "the Führer" rode triumphantly through the city. The Jews, Catholics, and the anti-Nazi faction that had demonstrated earlier in the year were in a state of […]
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The Art & Craft of Writing Fiction with Eric J. Matluck
The Art & Craft of Writing Fiction with Eric J. Matluck
Self-published Hackettstown author Eric J. Matluck will be here to discuss the art and craft of writing fiction. He has written 4 novels (2 available on Amazon, “Notes for a Eulogy” and “The Judges”) and 11 short stories. He’s been writing seriously for over 30 years, and he will discuss the inspiration behind writing in […]
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Bad Art Night Competition
Bad Art Night Competition
Are you not very good at drawing? Lack the skills for painting? Then this is the event for you! This is a freestyle craft competition in which everyone has access to a pile of ridiculous art and craft material. Participants can make as many pieces of “Bad Art” (sculptures, paintings, collages, etc.) as they want, […]
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Job Opportunities for Building Success Program (JOBS)
Job Opportunities for Building Success Program (JOBS)
The Transition Professionals JOBS team is holding a drop-in event at the Hackettstown Free Public Library. Job Opportunities for Building Success (JOBS) is a comprehensive program that offers free specialized training opportunities, sustainable employment acquisition, and supportive services (ie transportation, ID obtainment, food, clothing) to current justice-involved individuals facing barriers to employment. This can include: […]
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CANCELLED – “Rhythm & Grace” : Discover the Joy of Movement
CANCELLED – “Rhythm & Grace” : Discover the Joy of Movement
Are you an adult who loves to MOVE? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you to learn something new! Join our exclusive sample class and experience dance like never before. We invite you to try a little bit of everything, from gentle stretching to graceful ballet moves, and some energetic jazz moves. "Rhythm […]
Board of Trustees Meeting
Board of Trustees Meeting
In 2023, meetings of the Board of Trustees will be held on the 2nd Monday of each month, except in October, when the board will meet on Tuesday due to the Columbus Day holiday.
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Speak Your Soul: Art & Craft of Poetry with Yoli Worth
Speak Your Soul: Art & Craft of Poetry with Yoli Worth
Yoli will read and talk about different poems. Following the reading, participants will be invited to join in and write. There will be a brief writing session and as time allows, volunteers may read their work in progress, which encourages accepting written work without judgment. The workshop will close with participants creating a group poem, […]
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Introduction to Electric Vehicles
Introduction to Electric Vehicles
Have you heard the buzz about electric vehicles (EV) but don't know if they are right for you? Interested in making the switch to electric but are unsure about it? Let Jerry explain the basics of EVs and the details of ownership.
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Financial Planning During Your Lifetime – Webinar
Financial Planning During Your Lifetime – Webinar
So much of our life revolves around money and as our life changes, so should our financial priorities and goals. This presentation will focus on financial planning during various life stages. Gerard Raho from Edward Jones will touch on a Roth IRA and 529 college saving accounts for people early in their career. He will […]
Language Exchange Cafe
Language Exchange Cafe
Looking to learn Spanish with native speakers? At the Language Exchange Cafe, native English speakers and native Spanish speakers get together to learn each other's language and have some coffee. It is a fun, immersive, interactive way to build your second language skills. No registration necessary - just show up and have a good time! […]
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I Looked Up and There Was the Sky: The 2021 Mullica Hill Tornado – Virtual Author Talk
I Looked Up and There Was the Sky: The 2021 Mullica Hill Tornado – Virtual Author Talk
Join Monmouth University Professor and oral historian Melissa Ziobro as she offers a retrospective of the devastating EF-3 tornado that swept through Mullica Hill and surrounding areas in September of 2021. How widespread was the destruction? What was it like to be in the eye of the storm? How did the community come together to […]
Evening Book Club
Evening Book Club
Join us for a meeting of lively discussion at the library. This month’s book selection is ‘Mad Honey' by Jodi Picoult. Register online and we’ll see you there!
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Language Exchange Cafe
Language Exchange Cafe
Looking to learn Spanish with native speakers? At the Language Exchange Cafe, native English speakers and native Spanish speakers get together to learn each other's language and have some coffee. It is a fun, immersive, interactive way to build your second language skills. No registration necessary - just show up and have a good time! […]
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Booking & Cooking Cookbook Club
Booking & Cooking Cookbook Club
Join us monthly for an evening of sharing and sampling delicious culinary creations. Browse our collection of cookbooks to find a recipe based on the monthly theme. Then bring your tasty treat along with the recipe to share. Who knows? You may go home with a new favorite recipe! This program is for adults and […]
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Making College Work For You
Making College Work For You
Are you a high schooler or the parent of one? We have a program for you! Join Centenary University's Nick Ferrelli as he explains to high schoolers and their parents what to expect from college, how to make the most of their time and money, and how to thrive in the university setting. He will […]
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The “Full Moon Series”: a 50th Anniversary with artist Joseph Coco
The “Full Moon Series”: a 50th Anniversary with artist Joseph Coco
Artist, musician, and Centenary professor Joseph Coco will discuss his “Full Moon Series,” wherein for the last half-century he has painted a synopsis of the concluding year during the full moon of December. Since 2000, Professor Coco has also been including January full moons, with an image that anticipates what the year ahead will […]
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Simple Steps to Maximize Networking Opportunities – Webinar
Simple Steps to Maximize Networking Opportunities – Webinar
There’s an old adage when it comes to finding a job, “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” According to recent studies, up to 85% of jobs are filled by “who you know.” Networking is a crucial and possibly the most important part of finding a job, intimidating as it might be. Please […]
General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War
General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War
General Ulysses S. Grant is remembered today as a war-winning general, and he certainly deserves credit for his efforts in behalf of the Union. But has he gotten too much credit, at the expense of other men? In an earlier book, General Grant and the Rewriting of History, Dr. Varney looked at the tempestuous relationship […]