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Alliance Book Discussion: “Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora” edited by Sheree Renée Thomas

Come explore the stars and the sunken places, from “Birth of a Nation” to Jordan Peele!

 *Registration is required and we ask that you only register if you can assure your attendance on Saturday, June 5th for the whole event that starts at 10:30am and ends at 12:30pm.*

 Join us as we explore short stories and essays by some of the best African-American writers in the genres of science fiction, horror and fantasy! Among the many notable authors included are Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Dark Matter was honored with the 2005 and the 2001 World Fantasy Award and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a new sequel volume II has just been published! We’ll be chatting about four pieces from the collection, and mentioning several others.

 Dark matter: the non-luminous matter, not yet detected, that nonetheless has detectable gravitational effects on the universe.

Dark matter: the Afro-American presence and influences unseen or unacknowledged by Euro-American culture.

Dark Matter: the first anthology to illuminate the presence and influence of black writers in speculative fiction, with 25 stories, three novel excerpts, and five essays.

 Come explore the human race, and what is alien and other with us!

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Library Board Budget Presentation Meeting

Thursday, May 6 at 6:00pm the Newark Library Board will be having a presentation of the 2021-2022 budget, followed by the monthly meeting of the Newark Public Library Board of Trustees.

This meeting is open to the public and more information on the budget presentation is in the attached document.

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Update on Library Board Meetings

The library board is going to begin meeting in person again.

The monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees is Thursday, April 8 at 6:00pm in the library’s community room and is open for the public to attend.

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Information on Book Donations & Games at the Library

Many people have been asking about when we will begin accepting book donations again as well as when our game sessions will start back up. Unfortunately, the answer to both those questions is, not yet but we hope to soon.

In regards to accepting book donations, we only have one small closet for storage, so we can’t accept donations unless we have a book sale coming up. We hope to have a book sale over the summer and if we do, we will start accepting books one month before the sale. Thanks so much for keeping your donations for us until we are able to take them.

As for the games we used to love playing at the library – mahjong, canasta, Bunco, euchre? Perhaps when we’re all vaccinated and therefore at very low risk for when we share a table. We’re looking forward to that time, too.

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April Changes

As the month of April begins, there will be some changes to our restrictions at the library.

Starting April 1st:

  • We are eliminating the one-way traffic system (entering the library at the Mason Street entrance and exiting at the High Street door) as traffic remains slow at the library as it seems unnecessary to inconvenience anyone with this requirement. So, feel free to come and go from either door and please come visit us – we miss you!
  • We are also extending the length of time that you can spend on your visit to the library. Previously we asked for library visits be 30 minutes or less, now visitors are welcome to stay for an hour and this extends to anyone using the public computers.

With these changes, we will however continue to enforce the proper wearing of masks at all times in the library as well as ask everyone to respect those around them and maintain at least a 6′ social distance. The mask requirement is unlikely to end any time soon. This applies to anyone who has received a COVID vaccination as, although unlikely, even those who have been fully vaccinated can still contract COVID.

Thank you for your understanding.

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