Upcoming Events

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.

Drop by the Coddington Room to make a craft using the materials and instructions left on the table.  Take home what you create!

To register for this program please visit : https://newprovidence.librarycalendar.com/event/tentative-teen-led-program-299

The Cover Girls, a local rock duo, will perform patriotic songs for the upcoming Veterans Day holiday. 

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!

Join Miss Debbie for an active storytime with songs, fingerplays, dancing and fun.  (For ages 18 months - preschool but older kids welcomed!)

Is your 65th birthday coming up? Are you planning to retire? Thinking about making changes during the fall Medicare annual enrollment period?

Audiobook Walking Club

(a Silent Book Club Side Quest!)

Make a Native American craft and enjoy some special stories.   

Grades 1 - 5.

Bring your babies and toddlers for stories, songs and socialization.  And meet new friends.

Join us in an online conversation with acclaimed writer Amanda Peters as we discuss her instant bestselling novel, The Berry Pickers, as well as her tender short fiction collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories. 

The evening book club will discuss This Indian Kid by Eddie Chuculate, who brings his childhood to life with spare, unflinching prose.

Play with our train set, dollhouse, Duplo legos and puppet theater.  And make new friends!

Dinosaurs Arise! offers an interactive dinosaur program which includes stories, digging for fossils, and feeding and playing with the dinosaurs - Ruby the Baby Raptor, Kota the Triceratops and Terry the T. Rex.

Join us to make your own rainbow wall hanging.

Registration required.

For students in 4th-6th grades.

To register for this program please visit : https://newprovidence.librarycalendar.com/event/tentative-teen-led-program-299

Photographer and fine artist Nancy Ori's exhibit, Photography Reimagined with Collage and Hand-coloring, runs through January 17 and celebrates the blending of photography with mixed media layered techniques.

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.

A naturalist from the Somerset County Park Commission will present a lecture on New Jersey owls.  Come explore the nocturnal world of these fascinating birds of prey.