Share in the adventure of how astronauts live and work in space! Discover how the absence of gravity affects the human body and what we can do about it. See breathtaking pictures of the Earth from this orbiting laboratory. Presented by Paul Cirillo, a volunteer outreach “Ambassador” for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as a member of the New Jersey Astronomical Association, which operates the largest public observatory in New Jersey.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
All are welcome to discuss Lab Girl by Hope Jahren.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us each Tuesday night on Facebook for Trivia Tuesdays. Play along at home and see how you do!
Stop by the Hickory Corner Branch to discuss the hottest topics in the cool and refreshing outdoor air. Chairs will be provided. A section of the parking lot will be cordoned off for your safety. Dress for the weather!
We will be providing a safe environment by strictly adhering to social distancing guidelines. Please note the following:
- Adults must wear masks during the program.
- Please maintain social distancing of 6 feet from other patrons during the program.
- Restrooms inside the library will be available as the building's capacity limit allows. If the building's capacity is reached, patrons will need to wait to enter the building to use the restroom.
Registration required.
Join us for a Library Drawing Party! Have your friends and family 'meet' you on MCL's facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm, to follow along and try out your artistic talents as Julia teaches you how to draw new images each week. Then, we invite you to share your finished artwork with everyone in the comments section! This event is recommended for all ages.
Take some time to relax and get creative! Coloring pages will be avalable on MCLS' Facebook page at 11:30 a.m. Print out some of these awesome images and use color pencils, markers, or your computer to color them in. There are no rules, so go wild and feel free to color outside of the lines. Feel free to share your finished pieces with us!
Join Reference Librarian, Nita Mathur from our West Windsor Branch to discuss Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Reserve a bag of supplies to make a Polka Dot Pumpkin offered at the Hollowbrook Branch. A set of craft supplies can be reserved until October 30. Once reservations are recieved, staff will reach out to make arrangements for you to pick up the bag of supplies, using their curbside service.
Registration is required to reserve a bag of craft supplies.
Each week on MCLS' Facebook page at 3:00 p.m., Megan, from the Twin Rivers Branch, shares a recipe to get the conversation going. We look forward to hearing any suggestions or ideas you may have about this week's recipe. Of course, we'd love for you to share your own recipes, too! Join us today to see what's cooking in the kitchen!
This month's titles is Home and Lila both by Marilynne Robinson.
Summary of Home: The second novel in the Gilead Trilogy tells the story of Jack, the prodigal hell-raising son of Reverend Broughton, home after 20 years to make peace with his father. "Rich and resonant...Giliad and Home fit with and around each other perfectly...both are books of such beauty and power." Emily Barton, Los Angeles Times
Summary of Lila (third book in the Gilead Triology): After a life on the run, Lila steps inside the small-town Iowa church of reverend John Ames for shelter from the rain and finds herself a new life. "Georgeous writing, an absolutely beautiful book." David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Experience the thrill of watching a movie on a Saturday night at home, but not alone! Borrow the featured title from our Hoopla catalog with your Mercer County Library card and watch it together in the virtual company of your community. Feel free to share your thoughts and impressions in the comments section under the Facebook posting. We would love to hear from you!
Find Frankenstein on hoopla -- https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10966670
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected millions of individuals worldwide. Join Craig Gronczewski, MD, MBA, Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, for a discussion on the signs and symptoms of COVID-19, who is most as risk, and how it can be prevented and treated.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us this month to discuss a non-fiction book. This month we will discuss Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore Newman.
eBook is available in hoopla; the audiobook is available in hoopla.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us for a Library Drawing Party! Have your friends and family 'meet' you on MCL's facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm, to follow along and try out your artistic talents as Julia teaches you how to draw new images each week. Then, we invite you to share your finished artwork with everyone in the comments section! This event is recommended for all ages.
The short story -- short in length, but full of content! Join our discussion group, which focuses on a different short story the first Wednesday of every month. This month's story is "The Embassy of Cambodia" by Zadie Smith.
Direct link to story's full text at https://tinyurl.com/MCLSShort22.
Take some time to relax and get creative! Coloring pages will be avalable on MCLS' Facebook page at 11:30 a.m. Print out some of these awesome images and use color pencils, markers, or your computer to color them in. There are no rules, so go wild and feel free to color outside of the lines. Feel free to share your finished pieces with us!
All are welcome to attend the Lawrence Poetry Circle to examine and discuss great poems by W. H. Auden, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rudyard Kipling, Derek Walcott, William Butler Yeats, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shihab Nye, etc. The selected poems may sprout from difficult circumstances, but thrive to reach toward solace in times of turmoil. Sharon, a librarian from the Lawrence Branch, will lead the discussion.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Each week on MCLS' Facebook page at 3:00 p.m., Megan, from the Twin Rivers Branch, shares a recipe to get the conversation going. We look forward to hearing any suggestions or ideas you may have about this week's recipe. Of course, we'd love for you to share your own recipes, too! Join us today to see what's cooking in the kitchen!
Experience the thrill of watching a movie on a Saturday night at home, but not alone! Borrow the featured title from our Hoopla catalog with your Mercer County Library card and watch it together in the virtual company of your community. Feel free to share your thoughts and impressions in the comments section under the Facebook posting. We would love to hear from you!
Find RBG on hoopla -- https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12209296
Join the conversation while starting a new project or continuing your work in progress. Discuss past projects, and share tips and ideas. All hook and needle crafters are welcome!
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us on Facebook for our monthly virtual book group. This month we will discuss Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Please Note: If you haven't already, please submit a request to join the group prior to the discussion.
Take some time to relax and get creative! Coloring pages will be avalable on MCLS' Facebook page at 11:30 a.m. Print out some of these awesome images and use color pencils, markers, or your computer to color them in. There are no rules, so go wild and feel free to color outside of the lines. Feel free to share your finished pieces with us!
We invite you to join us on MCLS' Facebook page for a discussion of a TED Talk with Jennifer from our administration department. At 7:00 pm, we will post the link to a TED Talk video and start the discussion on Facebook. For those who are new to them, TED Talks are short, powerful, and engaging talks that span a variety of subjects. “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”, “The Power of Introverts”, and “The Danger of a Single Story” are just a few of the impactful talks that TED offers.
Please join us to discuss this month's TED Talk -- "Between Music and Medicine".
Join the conversation while starting a new project or continuing your work in progress. Discuss past projects, and share tips and ideas. All hook and needle crafters are welcome!
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Each week on MCLS' Facebook page at 3:00 p.m., Megan, from the Twin Rivers Branch, shares a recipe to get the conversation going. We look forward to hearing any suggestions or ideas you may have about this week's recipe. Of course, we'd love for you to share your own recipes, too! Join us today to see what's cooking in the kitchen!
Experience the thrill of watching a movie on a Saturday night at home, but not alone! Borrow the featured title from our Hoopla catalog with your Mercer County Library card and watch it together in the virtual company of your community. Feel free to share your thoughts and impressions in the comments section under the Facebook posting. We would love to hear from you!
Find Life Is Beautiful on hoopla -- https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12183281
This month's title is Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout.
Summary: In 13 interconnected stories, the author brings back Olive Kitteridge, her cranky, truth-telling heroine and a cast of characters from Crosby, Maine, who deal with a rapidly changing world of social problems and economic loss. "We see Olive acquiring a view of herself and coming to recognize as valuable the other people who grant that vision. In the process, she shares in the alchemy that she continues to perform for us and elicits our unexpected, abiding love." ~ The Boston Globe
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
All are welcome to read and discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
Summary: The classic novel follows Stephen Dedalus from his days as a student at the Clongowes Wood School, to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, to his college years during which he challenges the conventions of his upbringing.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Cathy Forbes of New Jersey State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) covers Medicare basics including eligibility, enrolling, Medicare Parts A, B, C, Medicare prescription drug coverage and costs.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us on Facebook for Trivia Tuesdays. Play along at home and see how you do!
Join us for our book club with a sports twist! Each meeting we'll discuss a book revolving around a sport, an athlete, a team, or a league. If the book is related to sports, it's fair game! This session's book is The Legends Club by John Feinsten.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us for a Library Drawing Party! Have your friends and family 'meet' you on MCL's facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm, to follow along and try out your artistic talents as Julia teaches you how to draw new images each week. Then, we invite you to share your finished artwork with everyone in the comments section! This event is recommended for all ages.
Take some time to relax and get creative! Coloring pages will be avalable on MCLS' Facebook page at 11:30 a.m. Print out some of these awesome images and use color pencils, markers, or your computer to color them in. There are no rules, so go wild and feel free to color outside of the lines. Feel free to share your finished pieces with us!
This month's titles is The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy.
Summary: An aristocrat named Pozdnyshev tells a stranger on a train the story of his unhappy marriage and the tragedy that occurred when he suspected his wife was unfaithful. A classic novella.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Experience the thrill of watching a movie on a Saturday night at home, but not alone! Borrow the featured title from our Hoopla catalog with your Mercer County Library card and watch it together in the virtual company of your community. Feel free to share your thoughts and impressions in the comments section under the Facebook posting. We would love to hear from you!
Find Me and Orson Welles on hoopla -- https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13529024
All are welcome to discuss Playing Nice by J. P. Delaney.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Take some time to relax and get creative! Coloring pages will be avalable on MCLS' Facebook page at 11:30 a.m. Print out some of these awesome images and use color pencils, markers, or your computer to color them in. There are no rules, so go wild and feel free to color outside of the lines. Feel free to share your finished pieces with us!
Experience the thrill of watching a movie on a Saturday night at home, but not alone! Borrow the featured title from our Hoopla catalog with your Mercer County Library card and watch it together in the virtual company of your community. Feel free to share your thoughts and impressions in the comments section under the Facebook posting. We would love to hear from you!
Find Becoming Astrid on hoopla -- https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13194920
Join us on Facebook for Trivia Tuesdays. Play along at home and see how you do!
Join us for a Library Drawing Party! Have your friends and family 'meet' you on MCL's facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm, to follow along and try out your artistic talents as Julia teaches you how to draw new images each week. Then, we invite you to share your finished artwork with everyone in the comments section! This event is recommended for all ages.
The short story -- short in length, but full of content! Join our discussion group, which focuses on a different short story the first Wednesday of every month. This month's story is "A Burglar's Wife" by Willa Cather.
eBook and audiobook available in hoopla.
Direct link to story's full text at https://tinyurl.com/MCLSShort23.
Join the conversation while starting a new project or continuing your work in progress. Discuss past projects, and share tips and ideas. All hook and needle crafters are welcome!
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us on Facebook for our monthly virtual book group. This month we will discuss Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
Please Note: If you haven't already, please submit a request to join the group prior to the discussion.
Join us for a Library Drawing Party! Have your friends and family 'meet' you on MCL's facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm, to follow along and try out your artistic talents as Julia teaches you how to draw new images each week. Then, we invite you to share your finished artwork with everyone in the comments section! This event is recommended for all ages.
All are welcome to join our program focused on American poet Louise Glück (rhymes with click) who won this year’s Nobel prize in literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." To celebrate this great news, Lawrence Poetry Circle will have a reading and discussion on Louise Glück’s poetry. Sharon, a librarian for the Lawrence Branch, will lead the discussion.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us online for a sing-along of songs, including celebrations of Hanukkah, Christmas, as well as winter themed tunes.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Ewing Library.
Join us on Facebook for Trivia Tuesdays. Play along at home and see how you do!
Join us in reading and discussing works of fiction or non-fiction having to do with gardening, plants, nature, or the land. All are welcome to discuss Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us for a Library Drawing Party! Have your friends and family 'meet' you on MCL's facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm, to follow along and try out your artistic talents as Julia teaches you how to draw new images each week. Then, we invite you to share your finished artwork with everyone in the comments section! This event is recommended for all ages.
Join the conversation while starting a new project or continuing your work in progress. Discuss past projects, and share tips and ideas. All hook and needle crafters are welcome!
Registration with an email is required, so we can send you a link to connect through GoToMeeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.
Join us for a Library Drawing Party! Have your friends and family 'meet' you on MCL's facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm, to follow along and try out your artistic talents as Julia teaches you how to draw new images each week. Then, we invite you to share your finished artwork with everyone in the comments section! This event is recommended for all ages.
Join us for a Library Drawing Party! Have your friends and family 'meet' you on MCL's facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm, to follow along and try out your artistic talents as Julia teaches you how to draw new images each week. Then, we invite you to share your finished artwork with everyone in the comments section! This event is recommended for all ages.
The Ewing, Hickory Corner, Lawrence and West Windsor branches will be open for holiday hours, 9:30-5:00pm. All other branches will be closed.
The Ewing, Hickory Corner, Lawrence and West Windsor branches will be open for holiday hours, 9:30-5:00pm. All other branches will be closed.
The Ewing, Hickory Corner, Lawrence and West Windsor branches will be open for holiday hours, 9:30-5:00pm. All other branches will be closed.
The Ewing, Hickory Corner, Lawrence and West Windsor branches will be open for holiday hours, 9:30-5:00pm. All other branches will be closed.
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