Scotch Plains Public Library

Paws for Reading

AmyC — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:00:06 +0000

We welcome dogs and their human volunteers from St. Hubert’s one Monday evening a month. The dogs love having stories read to them, and readers in Kindergarten and above are invited to come and take a turn. Advance registration is required. Five minute time slots will be assigned to all participants. Priority will be given to Scotch Plains and Fanwood library cardholders.

Library Board of Trustees Meeting

pam — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:30:01 +0000

Paws for Reading

AmyC — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:00:09 +0000

Jellyfish Craft

AmyC — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:00:19 +0000

Enjoy the first full week of summer and stop by on Saturday, June 29th at 11:00 am to make a jellyfish craft!

This program is open to all ages and does not require registration.

Eric Carle Celebration

AmyC — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:00:09 +0000

Join us on Saturday, June 22nd at 11:00 am to celebrate Eric Carle, one of the most recognizable author/illustrators in children’s picture books.

The program is open to all ages and does not require registration.

Library Board of Trustees Meeting

pam — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:30:34 +0000

Teen Scene

maribeth — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:30:23 +0000

Teens in grades 6 – 12 are welcome to play Wii, Nok-Hockey, and other games. Bring your friends and enjoy some snacks!

Afternoon Book Club

maribeth — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:00:00 +0000

Our selection for June will be Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin.

Friends of SPPL Meeting

maribeth — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:30:29 +0000

Friends of the Library will meet on Monday, June 17 at 7:30pm in the Music Room. New and old members are always welcome.

Emancipation and Its Legacies exhibition

maribeth — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:00:48 +0000

We are pleased to be able to present Emancipation and Its Legacies, a traveling exhibition from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, from June 17 through July 15.

The end of slavery in the United States is the most important turning point in American constitutional, political, and social history. The legacies of emancipation will be with us forever, forcing us to face who we believe we are as a people. This exhibition examines the story of Emancipation from 1850 to 1964, focusing on how, due to the persistence of African Americans, abolitionists, and politicians, the Civil War became an “abolition war”; how the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1863 and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments transformed the Constitution of the United States; and how we continue to debate the legacies of slavery and emancipation and reach for the goal of equality.

This exhibition was developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in partnership with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and is curated by David W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of History at Yale University, and Susan F. Saidenberg, The Gilder Lehrman Institute.

In conjunction with this exhibition, we will have three programs related to the issues of emancipation:

June 24 @ 7:00pm – Liberty’s Shadow: The Rise of Racism in the Abolitionist North by Dr. Lyra Monteiro of Rutgers University

July 1 @ 6:30pm – Film screening of Lincoln (PG-13, 150 minutes)

July 8 @ 7:00pm – The Underground Railroad and New Jersey by Dr. Linda Caldwell Epps, Past-president of the New Jersey Historical Society