No registration required. This program is for kids and teens (ages 6 and up) — all skill levels welcome! Learn about electronics while having fun! Make breadboard circuits! Be creative! Learn how electrical components work! Learn how to test circuits and electrical components! The library’s Technology Specialist will be there to help you learn, as will occasional invited experts with a career background in electronics. This program will meet on a regular schedule on Wednesdays @ 3:30 PM!
Cranbury School Summer Reading List 2019
Regulations Released!
June update from the NJ State Library July update from the NJ State Library Click below to see the latest (June 2019) perspective artist renderings of the new library. To see more detailed drawings come into the library and ask at the circulation desk. Front of Library Back of Library Library street view Floor Plan Elevations Site
Evening Book Discussion Selection
The Evening Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing Lifelines by Heidi Diehl. New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Summary (via Goodreads): It’s 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation’s horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she’s embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks in large part to Dieter, a mercurial musician. Their romance ignites quickly, but life gets in the way: an unplanned pregnancy, hasty marriage, the tense balance of their creative ambitions, and—finally, fatally—a family secret that shatters Dieter, and drives Louise home. But in 2008 she’s headed to Dieter’s mother’s funeral. She never returned to Germany, and has since remarried, had another daughter, and built a life in Oregon. As she flies into the heart of her past, she reckons with the choices she made, and the ones she didn’t, just as her family—current and former—must consider how Louise’s life has shaped their own, for better and for worse. Exquisitely balanced, expansive yet wonderfully intimate, Lifelines explores the indelible ties of family; the shape art, history, and nationality give to our lives; and the ways in which we are forever evolving, with each step we take, with each turn of the Earth.
Hour of Code
April 18 @ 3:30 PM Participate in a one-hour, fun introduction to computer science designed to demystify code. Learn at your own pace — grades 2 and up!
In Memory of Howard Zogott
Our deepest condolences to the family of our former Director at CPL, Howard Zogott. The link below is to his very lovingly written obituary. https://orlandsmemorialchapel.com/howard-zogott/
Letter to Governor Murphy
This week the Township Committee wrote a letter to Governor Murphy asking that he help to ensure that the New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act moves forward quickly. As you know, the NJ Library Construction Bond Act was approved by a majority of voters in New Jersey on November 7, 2017. It was also passed overwhelmingly in Cranbury. Please join us in urging Governor Murphy to ensure the New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act moves forward quickly. Sign the petition at here. In Cranbury, this 14-month delay has had a significant negative impact on our plans for a free-standing public library with community space. We have a shovel-ready project, funded by $2.5 million in private donations, but our donations have tapered off after the Bond Act was passed, as our community anticipated a quick application and release of matching grant funds to finish the project. Rising construction and material costs move the goal further away with each month of delay. Cranbury has been working as a community to raise funds for a new public library since 2009 when a Foundation was formed by a group of concerned citizens who were committed to raise the funds for a free-standing public library; Cranbury is the last township in New Jersey where the public library is shared with a K-8 school library space. The Cranbury Township Committee donated the land for the new library in a space identified on the master plan since 2010. The new library can operate fully on the minimum New Jersey library appropriation. We expect the new library will serve as an community anchor and invigorate our downtown business area. By raising $2.5 million in private donations, our community has demonstrated the need for new public library. Please help us cross the finish line and ensure the New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act moves forward quickly. Regards, Cranbury Township Committee & Cranbury Public Library Board of Trustees
Evening Book Discussion
The Evening Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Tuesday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Summary (via Goodreads): Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood – where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned and, though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor – engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven – but the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. Even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Afternoon Book Discussion
The Afternoon Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Wednesday, February 20 at 1:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama. New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Sent by her family to work in a silk factory just prior to World War II, young Pei grows to womanhood, working fifteen-hour days and sending her pay to the family who abandoned her. In “Women of the Silk” Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama’s graceful prose weaves the details of “the silk work” and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.
NJ Library Construction Bond Act update
The following information about the NJ Library Construction Bond Act was posted on the NJ State Library Website on December 28, 2018. The New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act (New Jersey Library Association)
Afternoon Book Discussion
The Afternoon Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Wednesday, January 16 at 1:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Summary (via Goodreads): When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Evening Book Club Selection
The Evening Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing Lifelines by Heidi Diehl. New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Summary (via Goodreads): It’s 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation’s horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she’s embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks in large part to Dieter, a mercurial musician. Their romance ignites quickly, but life gets in the way: an unplanned pregnancy, hasty marriage, the tense balance of their creative ambitions, and—finally, fatally—a family secret that shatters Dieter, and drives Louise home. But in 2008 she’s headed to Dieter’s mother’s funeral. She never returned to Germany, and has since remarried, had another daughter, and built a life in Oregon. As she flies into the heart of her past, she reckons with the choices she made, and the ones she didn’t, just as her family—current and former—must consider how Louise’s life has shaped their own, for better and for worse. Exquisitely balanced, expansive yet wonderfully intimate, Lifelines explores the indelible ties of family; the shape art, history, and nationality give to our lives; and the ways in which we are forever evolving, with each step we take, with each turn of the Earth.
Go, van Gogh!
April 26 @ 6:30 pm At one point, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother that since he had no children, he viewed his paintings as his progeny. A painter and pastor, van Gogh produced more than 2,000 “brilliant children.” In this session, dozens of his works of art, with a focus on pieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be explored. An overview of his life experiences and how it influenced his art will lead to a lively discussion, which will include talking about the differences between experiencing original artwork and reproductions. Register online! Presenter Michael Norris, Ph.D., has given lectures for more than twenty years, especially in classical and medieval art, the areas of his expertise. Based in Teaneck, New Jersey, Mike delivers PowerPoint lectures to libraries, schools, retirement communities, and clubs, many geared especially for New Jersey audiences. This program is funded by the NJ Council for the Humanities.
Hour of Code
Thursday, January 3, 3:30 – 4:30 pm Hour of Code continues with a new activity (CodeCombat: Escape the Dungeon!) where we will be coding for fun with JavaScript, Python, Lua, and CoffeeScript. Grades 2+. Chromebooks are limited so register while you can!
Affordable Healthcare Act Enrollment — Preview 2019 plans & prices now!
The 2019 Open Enrollment Period for the Affordable Healthcare Act runs from Thursday, November 1, 2018, to Saturday, December 15, 2018. Check out plans now. Enroll or renew! FYI, the New Jersey State Library enhanced an existing research guide providing basic and extended information on the ACA. This research guide is found at http://libguides.njstatelib.org/affordable-care-act.
Movie Club
Monday, Nov 19 @ 6:45 PM!
Afternoon Book Club Selection
The Afternoon Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Wednesday, October 17th at 1:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing Meet me at the Museum by Anne Youngson. New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Summary (via Goodreads): When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply. When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she … Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. He does not know that a query from a Mrs Tina Hopgood about a world-famous antiquity in his museum is about to alter the course of his life. Oceans apart, an unexpected correspondence flourishes as they discover shared passions: for history and nature; for useless objects left behind by loved ones; for the ancient and modern world, what is lost in time, what is gained and what has stayed the same. Through intimate stories of joy, anguish, and discovery, each one bares their soul to the other. But when Tina’s letters suddenly cease, Anders is thrown into despair. Can this unlikely friendship survive?
Evening Book Club Selection
The Evening Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Tuesday, October 23rd at 7:00 p.m. We’ll be discussing the book Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Summary (via Goodreads): Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.
A Little Storytime
For really little kids! Ages 12 – 20 months, with caregiver. Songs, stories and free play, until 12:15.Enroll online or at the library! Through November 21.
CRANBURY DAY ENVISIONS THE NEW LIBRARY
For Cranbury Day this year the Mike Ferrente, Library Foundation President, got volunteers to help map out and mark the site of the new library building. Thanks to Jeffrey Butcher for assisting us in marking the plot points; Jerry Thorne in actually marking out the exterior walls; and Tyler and Chris Cenci for documenting the event with aerial photos from their drone flyover. Here are the impressive results. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to ride the train and take a virtual tour of the new library. The lucky winner of our Cranbury Day door prize was Jessica Diamond. Congratulations Jessica!
@ Your Library Newsletter – September 2018
Check out our monthly newsletter, @ Your Library, to find out what’s happening at the library this month and beyond! You can Subscribe to our monthly newsletters and receive them directly in your email inbox.
Evening Book Club Selection
The Evening Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00 p.m. We’ll be discussing the book The Awakening by Kate Chopin. New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Summary (via Goodreads): When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin’s daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation. Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work “quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity.” Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening.
Afternoon Book Club Selection
The Afternoon Book Discussion Group will be meeting next on Wednesday, September 19th at 1:30 p.m. We’ll be discussing The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg. New members are always welcome! To learn more go to Cranbury Public Library Book Chat on Goodreads. Summary (via Goodreads): A moving novel about three people who find their way back from loss and loneliness to a different kind of happiness. Arthur, a widow, meets Maddy, a troubled teenage girl who is avoiding school by hiding out at the cemetery, where Arthur goes every day for lunch to have imaginary conversations with his late wife, and think about the lives of others. The two strike up a friendship that draws them out of isolation. Maddy gives Arthur the name Truluv, for his loving and positive responses to every outrageous thing she says or does. With Arthur’s nosy neighbor Lucille, they create a loving and unconventional family, proving that life’s most precious moments are sweeter when shared.
Conversation Café
Wednesday, September 12 at 6:30 p.m. Let’s have a conversation about the books on the Great American Read list. What have you read? What would you recommend to others? Enroll online or at the library.
Bytes and Bites
Have a tech question you need help with? Come and ask our Technology Specialist, Jay Oliver, for help — and treat yourself to a tasty bite with coffee or tea! Every third Monday of the month (schedule changes or cancellations pending) @ 11:30 a.m. at the library!
Chromebook Connection
For Kids Everyday after school beginning in Septemeber Use the library’s Chromebooks to work on homework, do school projects, or plays games with your group.
Conversation Café
Wednesday, September 26 at 6:30 p.m. Let’s have a conversation about Cranbury Day!
The Fiddle In America: A History And Demonstration
How often do you get to hear music and then have a high-energy conversation about its role in historical traditions? In this interactive session, Matt Backes explores the origins and history of American fiddle music. Dr Backes is a professor of American Studies at Rutgers University, and a member of the Magnolia Street String Band. This program is made possible by a grant from the NJ Council for the Humanities. Friday, September 21 @ 7:00 p.m. Please enroll online.
Dementia Conversations
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Cranbury Library 23 N Main Street C Cranbury, NJ 08512 This workshop offers tips on how to have honest and caring conversations with family members about: Going to the doctor Deciding when to stop driving Making legal and financial plansRegister by 9-11-18 (800-272-3900)
Great American Read
This summer the library and PBS are celebrating reading with THE GREAT AMERICAN READ! The library has THE GREAT AMERICAN READ book list as well as all the titles. We hope you’ll pick up the list and several books to take home and read. We also want you vote for your favorite title and comment on your favorite book here at the library. You can vote and comment each time you’re in the library. Look for our display with books, ballot box and comment board. Let’s find out what Cranbury’s favorite book is and if we agree with the rest of America! See the list of books. Vote and comment nationally.
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