Let's Get Connected: Tech Support

Registration & $5 donation is REQUIRED at the Reference DeskSchedule a 60 minute, one-on-one session with Linda Leddy, our tech Friend! We'll get you connected to your computer, your cell phone, your tablet!!Please give 24 hour notice if you are unable to make your appo......More

Registration & $5 donation is REQUIRED at the Reference DeskSchedule a 60 minute, one-on-one session with Linda Leddy, our tech Friend! We'll get you connected to your computer, your cell phone, your tablet!!Please give 24 hour notice if you are unable to make your appointment.

West Caldwell - Podvey Study Room

Let's Get Connected: Tech Support

Registration & $5 donation is REQUIRED at the Reference DeskSchedule a 60 minute, one-on-one session with Linda Leddy, our tech Friend! We'll get you connected to your computer, your cell phone, your tablet!!Please give 24 hour notice if you are unable to make your appo......More

Registration & $5 donation is REQUIRED at the Reference DeskSchedule a 60 minute, one-on-one session with Linda Leddy, our tech Friend! We'll get you connected to your computer, your cell phone, your tablet!!Please give 24 hour notice if you are unable to make your appointment.

West Caldwell - Podvey Study Room

BYOC Bring Your Own Craft

Come to our library and hang out with other crafters. Whether you like to knit, crochet, sew, scrapbook or something else crafty, come hang with like-minded people. We are welcoming crafters of all levels and all crafts (no glitter) to share tips and tricks. No instr......More

Come to our library and hang out with other crafters. Whether you like to knit, crochet, sew, scrapbook or something else crafty, come hang with like-minded people. We are welcoming crafters of all levels and all crafts (no glitter) to share tips and tricks. No instructors are provided. Beginning in September, there will be a limited supply of craft materials for your use while in the library.

West Caldwell - Community Meeting Room

ELL: English Language Learners

Classes for Adult English Language Learners.Questions? Contact [email protected] here or with the instructors.

West Caldwell - Community Meeting Room

Teens Volunteer! with Ms. Lincoln

December meeting TBDTeen Volunteers must be in grades 8 to 12. A volunteer application must be filled out and signed by a parent or guardian and handed in at the first volunteer event you attend, please contact the teen librarian at [email protected]......More

December meeting TBDTeen Volunteers must be in grades 8 to 12. A volunteer application must be filled out and signed by a parent or guardian and handed in at the first volunteer event you attend, please contact the teen librarian at [email protected] for an application. Registration required.

West Caldwell - New Book Area, West Caldwell Public Library

Don't Worry, Be Crafty: An Adult Craft Group

Our monthly craft class!Project information will be available soon. Projects are subject to change without notice.

West Caldwell - Community Meeting Room

A Writing Group *New start time*

Join us for a peer-led interactive writer's group. We will spend some time writing from prompts, stream of conscious writing and other exercises. We will then share one of these writings or something we are working on at home to receive feedback from the group. Each wr......More

Join us for a peer-led interactive writer's group. We will spend some time writing from prompts, stream of conscious writing and other exercises. We will then share one of these writings or something we are working on at home to receive feedback from the group. Each writer will be limited to reading 2 pages per feedback session. Please bring your preferred writing materials (paper & pen, computer, etc). Please note: Patrons arriving after 4:45pm will not be permitted to join the session unless prior arrangements have been made. Contact Alexis to arrange.

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Option to Share Your Work

Please sign up here if you have a prepared piece you would like to read at our writer's group and receive feedback. There will be a limit of 3 people to read per session. If you would like to bring copies of your work for people to read silently, please do that.You can ......More

Please sign up here if you have a prepared piece you would like to read at our writer's group and receive feedback. There will be a limit of 3 people to read per session. If you would like to bring copies of your work for people to read silently, please do that.You can also request for someone else to read your writing aloud. Please do not sign up to share two months in a row. UNLESS no one has signed up by the night before the meet.

West Caldwell - Community Meeting Room

Free Blood Pressure Reading

Free Blood Pressure Screening. No appointment needed.

West Caldwell - New Book Area

Movie: Toys

1992 PG-13 1h 53m | Family, Fantasy, ComedyLeslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.

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Mental Health Support Group (NAMI's Connection Recovery Peer Support Group)

The Essex-Passaic Chapter of NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) Connection Recovery Peer Support Group Program meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at the West Caldwell Library on 30 Clinton Road. NAMI is the most influential organization devoted to helpin......More

The Essex-Passaic Chapter of NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) Connection Recovery Peer Support Group Program meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at the West Caldwell Library on 30 Clinton Road. NAMI is the most influential organization devoted to helping people with mental illness and their relatives and loved ones recover and deal with mental health issues. These meetings will be led by people having some form of mental illness. During these meetings, we will conduct peer support though all people interested in this organization are encouraged to attend. You do not have to sign up in advance. All meetings are kept confidential and are led by people specifically trained to conduct these meetings. NAMI Connection is a recovery peer support group program that offers respect, understanding, encouragement and hope. NAMI Connection groups are:· Free and confidential· Held monthly for 90 minutes · Designed to connect, encourage, and support participants using a structured support group model· Led by trained facilitators living in recovery themselvesThis meeting is for anyone ages 18 who is dealing with their own mental illness or a loved one's. https://nami.org/Home

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CHESS Club OPEN PLAY

This program is for adults and those ages 12 with knowledge of the game. There are no instructors.

West Caldwell - Community Meeting Room

ELL: English Language Learners

Classes for Adult English Language Learners.Questions? Contact [email protected] here or with the instructors.

West Caldwell - Community Meeting Room

Library Board Meeting

Open to the public.

West Caldwell - Community Meeting Room

Morning Book Club

July 17 People We Meet on Vacation by Emily HenryTwo best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home ......More

July 17 People We Meet on Vacation by Emily HenryTwo best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.August 28 Heart of Darkness / Secret Sharer by Joseph ConradHeart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul.The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself.Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.September 18 The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan KamaliIn 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation.Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.”Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.October 16 Tilt by Emma PatteeSet over the course of one day, a heart-racing story about a woman facing the unimaginable, determined to find safetyAnnie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, she realizes there’s nothing to do but walk.Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. She’s determined to change her life if she can just make it home.November 20 The Rainbow Comes & Goes by Anderson Cooper & Gloria VanderbiltCooper’s intensely busy career as a journalist affords him little time to spend with his 91 year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before—a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives, the things that matter to them, and what they still want to learn about each other.Both a son’s love letter to his mother & an unconventional mother’s life lessons for her grown son, this blend if memoir & advice offers a rare window into their close relationship and fascinating lives. In these often hilarious and touching exchanges, they share their most private thoughts and the hard-earned truths they’ve learned along the way.December 18 Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna RaybournThey've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller.Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they've been marked for death.

West Caldwell - New Book Area