Week Calendar

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).

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

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

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

Join this active storytime with songs, fingerplays, dancing and fun for toddlers to preschoolers, especially for those unable to come during the week.

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

This month’s theme: Fall Produce and Grains.  

Play with our train set, dollhouse, Duplo legos and puppet theater.   Meet new friends.

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

Compete against other teams  to put together a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle.  Every team will have an identical puzzle to put together, which you can take home at the end. The first team to complete the puzzle will receive a prize. 

Construct a scene to fit the monthly theme or just create freely.  Themed creations will be on display in the children's room all month.

For students in 4th-6th grades.

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.

Improve your skills as a writer in Writing Wizards, a creative writing workshop led by high school students. Students will learn writing through prompts and grammar lessons, and receive constructive feedback from both their peers and teachers.

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.

Training for New Providence students in grades 9-12 who wish to volunteer at the library September - January.

We'll read the Tony Award-winning play Art by Yasmina Reza out loud in one evening. Art focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painting) as well as the meaning of friendship.  The pla

At Silent Book Club there's no assigned reading.  All readers are welcome—ebooks or audiobooks, poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction... it's BYOBook. We gather to read together in quiet camaraderie.  

Join the Haunting Chapters Book Club!