Upcoming Events

You are registering for January - March.

For students in 4th-6th grades.

Join us for an afternoon of coloring and pizza!

Registration required.

An introduction to Dungeons & Dragons for students in grades 4 - 6 who are interested in learning the game.

Students must be able to attend all four sessions: March 1, March 8, March 15, March 22.

Learn to play chess with the NP Chess Club! 

The club will present instructional lectures & strategy in the Conti Family Room.  These presentations are open to children, teens and adults.

Play chess with the NP Chess Club!

Weekly play every Monday night from 5:30-6:30.

All ages welcome. All children age 10 or under must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver at all times while in the building.

Baseball enthusiasts are invited to discuss teams, players and issues of the sport with other baseball fans. Listeners are welcome too!

Phil Coffin, longtime editor at The New York Times, and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research since 1994, will discuss his books: When Baseball Was Still Topps and the recently published A Baseball Book of Days. 

Baseball enthusiasts are invited to discuss teams, players and issues of the sport with other baseball fans. Listeners are welcome too!

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

Join Miss Cathy for stories, interactive rhymes and movement with sign language.

A book club with no assigned reading! Join us for a free bagel from NP Bagel Cafe and we'll take turns speaking about the books that we're reading/ have enjoyed recently.

Play with our train set, dollhouse, DUPLO legos and puppet theater in the Coddington Room.  Meet new friends.  Open Play closes from 4-5 pm.

You are registering for Jan - March 2026. 

Join Miss Debbie for an active storytime of songs, fingerplays, dancing and fun.  For 18 months - preschool but older kids are always welcome!

Bruce Springsteen’s relationship with his home state of New Jersey has a central place in his legendary career.

Learn how to harness your dreams to improve your sleep and health with dream engineer Dr. Michelle Carr. In Nightmare Obscura, Dr. Carr unlocks the science behind the sleeping body.

A screening of last month's online interview with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know

Drop in any time to make a craft of the month.  Register on our website.

Bring your toddlers and babies for songs, stories, fun and socialization with Miss Elizzie.

Taught by high school students, students will learn how robotics is used in everyday life and have a chance to build robotic cars!

For students in grades 1-5.

Join Christa P. Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, as she shares video highlights from the project’s growing collection.

You’re invited to join us for a virtual conversation with acclaimed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work, The Astral Library, which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book?

The evening book club will discuss Astor: the Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper.