Wayne County Public Health, as part of our Emergency Preparedness program, is providing free flu shots to the public on Saturday, October 24th as a drive thru clinic. The clinic will run from 10am – 1pm. Any and all are welcome to register for a free flu shot, ages 18 and over. Please share with your family and friends!
YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER!
To register, click here.
To help celebrate Halloween, the library will be hosting a Trunk-or-Treat event for the community. The event will be outside and all necessary safety parameters will be followed to ensure your health and safety. The library staff will have their vehicles one or two parking spaces apart, going from the front of the library around the corner onto Mason Street. Tables will be set up in front of each vehicle with pre-packaged grab-&-go candy and craft bags.
The event will be Saturday, October 31st from 6-7pm.
Please be aware that this event may be cancelled in response to the COVID-19 situation.
In the past we have offered a service to teachers and day care organizations called a Resource Tote but we’ve recently revamped and expanded this service to include families!
With our Resource Take-Home Bags you can fill out a form describing what types of books you’re looking for and when you’d like them ready by.
Once the form is filled out, our staff will select some books fitting your request saving you from spending time browsing!
All you’ll have to do is come into the Children’s Room to pick them up or call us for a Curbside pickup!
Call the library at (315) 331-4370 or stop in if you have any questions.
Saturday October 17th 10:30- 12:00
You are cordially invited to our second book discussion! This event will take place virtually via Zoom. You can join by phone, computer, or both. An invitation link to join the meeting will be emailed to you the day before the event.
Participants are asked to register using the button above.
Come explore the intersections of race and environment in “Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Edited by Camille T. Dungy.
Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work; yet our national heritage is informed by paintings of a lone white male naturalist explorer standing on a cliff ledge, the wilderness before him, who gets to quantify and catalogue the wild environment according to his worldview. At best, marginalized peoples are depicted as disenfranchised “exotic” assistants relegated to the edge of the picture or in their assigned “roles” as slaves or “savages.” In this community discussion, we’ll explore gorgeous nature writings about the pastoral and the wild.
Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Join us!
A packet of selections from the anthology will be available online and at Newark Library. The book is available to borrow through Newark Public Library. It’s also available through Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.
Newark Public Library brings Alliance Book Club discussions / community conversations to you in conjunction with Wayne Action for Racial Equality. For more information, call (315) 331-4370.
Now that school is starting back up, we want to support students in any way that we safely can while keeping the health and safety of everyone, including staff, in mind.
Students will have the opportunity to stay at the library longer than 30 minutes if they are actively engaged in schoolwork.
Of course, students will be required to wear masks (covering mouth and nose) at all times and all students entering and staying in either the teen or children’s room will have to have their temperature taken and will be asked COVID screening questions.
The length of time allowed is subject to change and will depend on demand.
In addition to free WiFi, one computer is available in the Teen Room for students to use for schoolwork.
Feel free to call the library at (315) 331-4370 with any questions.
If you have been notified that an item you requested is available for pick up, you have a few options.
The library is open to the public, with limited capacity. You are more than welcome to enter through the Mason Street door and come right in. Please use hand sanitizer upon entering and approach staff where the plexiglass shields are. If we are already at capacity upstairs, you may be asked to wait briefly before entering.
If you are not yet comfortable coming into the library, we are still providing curbside pick up. Please call us or email us at newarklibrary@owwl.org to let us know that you would like to pick up your items – already checked out to you and ready to go – at one of our reserved curbside spaced on Mason Street.
