Upcoming Events

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.

Knitters, crocheters and stitchers are welcome to come work on your works-in-progress in the Conti Room.

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.

Signs, Songs & Stories with Miss Cathy features stories, interactive rhymes, songs, sign language and movement for ages 3-5 (preschooler - K).

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.   Meet new friends.

Open Play is closed from 4:00 - 5:00 pm.

Join Miss Cathy for a 5 week summer session on sign language.   Grades 3 and up.

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

A Teens-only Lego afternoon. Use our Legos to build your own creation.

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

Enjoy an entertaining and interactive show of impossible magic tricks and off the wall comedy all themed around color.  Conti Room.

In this club, you will gain hands-on experience in web development, learning the core technologies that power the web: HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and JavaScript (JS).

The evening book club will discuss Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt, a debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about

Buy yourself a beer or soda and play a board game in the back room at United Brewing! Mark and Elizabeth will introduce you to board games that go beyond the usual suspects you grew up playing.

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

In this fun "paws-on"  workshop, Amy Tefft, a Humane Society of the US certified Cat Behavior Counselor and Cat Sitter, will guide us on how to grow containers of cat grass. 

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 yogi librarian Kim Pallant for a special summer yoga storytime series.   Includes mindful breathing exercises, stories, movement and games.  Bring a mat or towel to sit on.

Come play Dungeons & Dragons at the library! All materials will be provided - just bring your imagination! 

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!

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.