LGBTQ+ Book Club of the Month: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Join us at the Main Library, LGBTQ+ Resource Center, January 25th from 6PM – 8PM for a group discussion of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. ... Read More
Programs & Exhibits
Current Programs
Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America
Please join the Institute of Jazz Studies and Newark Public Library on January 23rd at 6:30 p.m. for an engrossing book talk at the James... Read More
The Art of Vogue
New Year … New You! Kick off 2024 with the Newark Public Library LGBTQ+ Resource Center. Whether you want to try voguing for the very first time or... Read More
SEL + Self Care for Black Folks
SEL + Self Care for Black Folks A workshop with Love M. Gaillard, MSW Wednesday, February 28, 2024 6 pm 4th Floor Auditorium Newark Public Library... Read More
Virtual Book Talk: Purgatory Citizenship
Virtual Book Talk Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley Thursday, January 18, 2024 7:00 pm On Zoom https://tinyurl.com/5n9b8d8f Author Calvin John... Read More
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Philip Roth
SAVE THE DATE! Join Aimee Pozorski and Maren Scheurer on Zoom on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 10:00AM as they discuss the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook publication. DETAILS TO FOLLOW. Please follow the Philip Roth... Read More
Poetry Workshop Led by Joseph Reuben Fuller–CANCELED!!
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE SEVERE WEATHER FORECAST Please join Joseph Reuben Fuller on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at the Newark Library, 5 Washington St., Newark,... Read More
NPL Computer Class
This year can be the year you level up your computer skills! Join us Monday and Wednesdays 2-4pm in the TTC starting January 8. For... Read More
Current Exhibits
Imágenes Sin Palabras Exhibition & Public Events
September 16, 2023 – December 31, 2023 On View on the 2nd Floor Gallery The Newark Public Library 5 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 For... Read More
Art on Paper: New Prints from the Special Collections Division
September 1 – December 30, 2023 First Floor Gallery, Main Library Click here for the flyer. The Newark Public Library’s Special Collections Division is hosting... Read More
INSPIRE! NEWARK’S UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, POP-UP EXHIBITION
We are so excited to invite you to our free pop-up exhibition Inspire! Newark’s Underground Railroad. Like Harriet Tubman, Newark’s Underground Railroad activists’ courageous fight... Read More
Revered, Reviled, Restored: Newark’s Passaic River
Exhibit up through Dec 31, 2023.
The Philip Roth Personal Library is now open!
The Philip Roth Personal Library at the Newark Public Library is now OPEN! Visit www.prpl.npl.org for more details on the Philip Roth Personal Library and... Read More
Newark Public Library Digital Archive
The Newark Public Library has digitized over 50 collections and 35,000 items related to African American, Latino and Newark history! These include photographs, city directories,... Read More
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