2017 was another busy year at the Phillipsburg Library! Total visits are up 3.8% from 2016, and we offered nearly 11% more programs. Check out the infographic below to see how we served our community in 2017:
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Children's Programs Are Back!
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Programming for children resumes January 17th: Toddling Twos Wednesdays, 10:00am - 10:30am Toddling Twos is for 2-3 year olds, and is a great program full of simple stories, flannel boards, songs, and more! Book Bunnies Wednesdays, 11:30am - 12 noon Book Bunnies is for children ages 3-5 and is a fun program with stories, flannel boards, songs, and more! After School Club Thursdays, 4:00pm - 5:00pm The After School Club is for students in grades 1-5. - Jan. 18 - Game Night
- Jan. 25 - Hobby Hour
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Our Online Catalog Has a New Look!
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Last month, we upgraded our automated circulation system. This upgrade came with a makeover for our online catalog! You can still do everything you used to on our old catalog, including placing requests for items, renewing items you have checked out, creating lists, and saving your reading history. In addition to a new look for the desktop version of our online catalog, we now have a responsive, fully-functional mobile catalog! If you need assistance in navigating the new version of our catalog, please feel free to ask a staff member - we are always happy to help!
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Ongoing Events for Adults
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Laughter Yoga Monday, January 8, 12:00pm Laughing is a vocalization that anyone can do. It relieves stress, which helps keep disease away. Laughter has both psychological and physiological health benefits. Increased oxygen intake clears the lungs and the mind. Laughter is a cardiovascular exercise, ‘internal jogging,’ that burns calories. Here is your chance to try it for yourself! Cynthia Curtis from Funny Farm Laughter Club will lead an hour-long laughter yoga session. Call the library at 908-454-3712 to sign up or
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PFPL Writers Group Thursday, January 11 & 25, 7:00pm Do you have a story to tell? Join the PFPL Writers Group!
We welcome all levels of writers from beginner to published professionals. We'll discuss fiction, poetry, nonfiction (including memoir), and more. Bring your ideas, a notebook, and your magic pen! Call the library at 908-454-3712 to sign up, or register online!
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Book Forum Wednesday, January 17, 1:30pm The book club with no assigned reading. Share light refreshments and talk about whatever you have been reading lately.
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Everyday Art Wednesday, January 17, 7:00pm "Everyday Art" is a freelance Artisan Community which is built on a foundation of creating mindful interactive art to keep for oneself or to give to others. All levels of talent are encouraged to attend, so if you are a professional artist, an artist "want to be," or simply terrified to put a colored pencil to paper, please, we would love to have you join our group!
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Film Screening: Victoria & Abdul Thursday, January 18, 7:00pm Abdul Karim arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. The young clerk is surprised to find favor with the queen herself. As Victoria questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance that her household and inner circle try to destroy. As their friendship deepens, the queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity. Rated PG-13; 111 minutes The public is invited to stay for a brief discussion after the film. All films in this series are recommended for adults. For more information, call the library at 908-454-3712. Partial funding is provided by the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Movie License #196808001
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Happy Bookers: The Devil in the White City Wednesday, January 24, 7:00pm A vivid account of the tragedies and triumphs of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the concurrent depravities of America’s first serial killer. In roughly alternating chapters, former Wall Street Journal reporter Larson (Isaac’s Storm, 1999, etc.) tells the stories of Daniel H. Burnham, chief planner and architect of exposition, and Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, whose rambling World’s Fair Hotel, just a short streetcar ride away, housed windowless rooms, a gas chamber, secret chutes, and a basement crematory. Multiple copies of the book are available for reserve. See the Happy Bookers website for more information.
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Case histories : a novelby Kate AtkinsonPrivate detective Jackson Brodie finds his own need for resolution sparked by three investigations including those of two sisters who discover a shocking clue to the disappearance of their third sister thirty years earlier, a lawyer whose life is turned upside-down when his daughter joins the firm, and a woman whose past mistakes and demanding family life culminate in a violent escape. Selected by Deb Messling, Library Director
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Strange weather : four short novelsby Joe HillA collection of four novellas by the award-winning author of "The Fireman" includes the tales, "Snapshot," "Aloft," "Rain" and "Loaded." Selected by Barbara, Technical Services
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The memory painterby Gwendolyn WomackAn artist whose paintings are inspired by unusually vivid dreams experiences his most powerful dream yet when he meets a woman who seeks him out after seeing one of her recurring nightmares rendered in exact detail in one of his works. Selected by Mariola, Circulation Staff
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In a sunburned countryby Bill BrysonA perilous journey into the lethal but luscious Land Down Under is filled with news and knowledge about the Aborigines, exiled British convicts, careless prime ministers, eating snakes the size of catcher's mitts, avoiding killer seashells, and preparing for cyclones. Selected by Norma, Circulation Staff
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Before we were yours : a novelby Lisa WingateA tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger. Selected by Cindy, Circulation Staff
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A face like glassby Frances Hardinge In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare – wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to show (or fake) joy, despair or fear – at a price. Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a little girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times. For Neverfell's emotions are as obvious on her face as those of the most skilled Facesmiths, though entirely genuine. And that makes her very dangerous indeed… Selected by Christina, Children's Librarian
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