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Bring Your Own Book Club (BYOB)
Bring Your Own Book Club (BYOB)
You choose your own books, and then join us on Zoom to share your thoughts about your latest reads. Registration is required.
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Balance Awareness with Yasmin Ofek
Balance Awareness with Yasmin Ofek
Yasmin’s no-impact classes can help you establish a better connection between the brain and body, while also gently strengthening the muscles that keep your body upright.
Hypertension Clinic
Hypertension Clinic
A public health nurse from the Union County Office of Health Management will be in the Adult Room to take blood pressure readings and share educational materials.
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Registration Full: Music & Movement
Registration Full: Music & Movement
Registration is currently full. Please email us at [email protected] to be added to our waitlist. Join us for a special Music and Movement program with Miss. Sheila from Kids' MusicRound! This music and movement program is for children ages birth to 4 years in age. Registration is required and will open on May 1, 2023…
Registration Full: Music & Movement
Registration Full: Music & Movement
Registration is currently full. Please email us at [email protected] to be added to our waitlist. Join us for a special Music and Movement program with Miss. Sheila from Kids' MusicRound! This music and movement program is for children ages birth to 4 years in age. Registration is required and will open on May 1, 2023…
Teen Advisory Board Meeting
Teen Advisory Board Meeting
The Teen Advisory Board gives Scotch Plains teens a voice in the library and in the community. We want to hear what you have to say! This will be a hybrid meeting: you can choose to attend in person at the library or virtually via Zoom. (We recommend attending in person, because there will be snacks.) Either…
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Memoir Group
Memoir Group
Do you have memories you would like to shape into a story that you can share? Registered participants will meet with local teacher and writer Edie Scher for a series of classes on the process of writing, editing, and compiling their stories in a supportive environment. This group is meeting for six virtual sessions…
When Newark Had a Chinatown: A Talk by Yoland Skeete-Laessig
When Newark Had a Chinatown: A Talk by Yoland Skeete-Laessig
A vibrant Chinese community existed in Newark between the 1870s and 1940s. But when Yoland Skeete-Laessig, herself an immigrant of Chinese descent, wanted to learn about its history she could find almost no information other than old news stories focusing on crime, gambling and other negative topics. Knowing American history and having experienced the Civil…
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Reducing Food Waste for a Sustainable Future
Reducing Food Waste for a Sustainable Future
Why should we learn how to reduce food waste? Because it's a simple but highly effective way to combat climate change--and save money! Reducing food waste is an important way we can all participate in addressing the climate crisis. The negative impacts of household food waste includes greenhouse gas emission from landfills, as well as water…
Guided Meditation
Guided Meditation
Barbara Brown will lead a virtual mindfulness-based guided meditation session. Registration is required.
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Balance Awareness with Yasmin Ofek
Balance Awareness with Yasmin Ofek
Yasmin’s no-impact classes can help you establish a better connection between the brain and body, while also gently strengthening the muscles that keep your body upright.
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Registration full: Music & Movement
Registration full: Music & Movement
Registration is currently full. Please email us at [email protected] to be added to our waitlist. Join us for a special Music and Movement program with Miss. Sheila from Kids' MusicRound! This music and movement program is for children ages birth to 4 years in age. Registration is required and will open on May 8, 2023 to children…
Registration full: Music & Movement
Registration full: Music & Movement
Registration is currently full. Please email us at [email protected] to be added to our waitlist. Join us for a special Music and Movement program with Miss. Sheila from Kids' MusicRound! This music and movement program is for children ages birth to 4 years in age. Registration is required and will open on May 8, 2023 to children…
Friends of the Library Election & Meeting
Friends of the Library Election & Meeting
Nominations are needed for all board positions for the election to take place.
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Afternoon Book Club
Afternoon Book Club
The Afternoon Book Club will meet inside the Library to discuss Anxious People by Fredrik Backman.
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Read to a Dog
Read to a Dog
Children are invited to practice their reading with a trained therapy animal at this program. This event will be held in the basement of the library. This program is for emerging readers who are in K-5th grade. Registration is required for this event and will open to Scotch Plains residents on May 8, 2023. Click…
Board of Trustees Meeting
Board of Trustees Meeting
Board of Trustees meetings are held in the Library's Meeting Room and are open to the public.
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Aspiring Authors
Aspiring Authors
This program is run by one of our wonderful teen volunteers! Join the Scotch Plains Public Library for Aspiring Authors, a fun and engaging workshop for elementary schoolers age 5 to 8. Through this exciting program, we hope to spark imaginations and inspire a love of reading and writing in children. The program will share…
Evening Book Club
Evening Book Club
The Evening Book Club will meet outside the library (weather permitting) to discuss The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocum.
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Balance Awareness with Yasmin Ofek
Balance Awareness with Yasmin Ofek
Yasmin’s no-impact classes can help you establish a better connection between the brain and body, while also gently strengthening the muscles that keep your body upright.
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Music & Movement
Music & Movement
Join us for a special Music and Movement program with Miss. Sheila from Kids' MusicRound! This music and movement program is for children ages birth to 4 years in age. Registration is required and will open on May 15, 2023 to children who are residents of Scotch Plains only. When registering, please use the child's…
Music & Movement
Music & Movement
Join us for a special Music and Movement program with Miss. Sheila from Kids' MusicRound! This music and movement program is for children ages birth to 4 years in age. Registration is required and will open on May 15, 2023 to children who are residents of Scotch Plains only. When registering, please use the child's…
Books and Snacks | The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Books and Snacks | The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Books and Snacks (formerly Readers' Rendezvous) is SPPL's middle school book club! The club is founded and run by members of our Teen Advisory Board. This month we're discussing The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick! Click here to place a hold on a copy. We'll provide snacks to enjoy and more books to…
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Drop In Crafting
Drop In Crafting
Craft with company! Bring your current WIP (work in progress) to the Library’s gallery space and create alongside others.
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Senior Book Chat
Senior Book Chat
Join a librarian at Brookside Park to discuss whatever you've enjoyed reading lately. Registration is required.
Memoir Group
Memoir Group
Do you have memories you would like to shape into a story that you can share? Registered participants will meet with local teacher and writer Edie Scher for a series of classes on the process of writing, editing, and compiling their stories in a supportive environment. This group is meeting for six virtual sessions…
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Aspiring Authors
Aspiring Authors
This program is run by one of our wonderful teen volunteers! Join the Scotch Plains Public Library for Aspiring Authors, a fun and engaging workshop for elementary schoolers age 5 to 8. Through this exciting program, we hope to spark imaginations and inspire a love of reading and writing in children. The program will share…
Nina Simone: An Extra/Ordinary Way to Listen
Nina Simone: An Extra/Ordinary Way to Listen
Nina Simon was an iconic American singer and songwriter who was passionately dedicated to civil rights activism. She was also a wife and mother who felt the pull of traditional domesticity.
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Balance Awareness with Yasmin Ofek
Balance Awareness with Yasmin Ofek
Yasmin’s no-impact classes can help you establish a better connection between the brain and body, while also gently strengthening the muscles that keep your body upright.
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Chapter Chat Book Club
Chapter Chat Book Club
Chapter Chat Book Club is run by teens, for teens! For this month’s meeting, members are reading Parachutes by Kelly Yang. If you would like to borrow a copy of the book, check our catalog or our digital collection or give us a call! Follow the link below to register to attend. Please note: this month's book deals with some…
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