• Microsoft PowerPoint Intro – Class

    Tech Center

    Learn how to use Microsoft’s Power Point to support your presentations with educational and persuasive organizing text and images.

  • Gravity – Friday Movie Matinee

    Performing Arts

    Gravity is a 2013 British-American science fiction film co-written, co-edited, produced and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their space shuttle, and their subsequent attempt to return to Earth.

  • Teen Game Club

    Teen Area

    Come play video games for free every week at the Main Library! Play our Wii, Wii U, XBox 360, and Kinect on our TVs. Or, bring your own games and gaming systems to share! Please note: there will be no gaming in the Teen Room except for these times.

  • Microsoft Excel Intro – Class

    Tech Center

    Excel is one of Microsoft’s most powerful tools. Learn the basics about how to create and use spreadsheets. Cells, formulas and charts are among the topics covered.

  • Windham Campbell Prizes>> Cathedrals of the Imagination: On Writers and Libraries

    Community Program Room

    Yale Press Director and NHFPL Board Member John Donatich talks to novelists C. E. Morgan, Jerry Pinto, and Tessa Hadley about the role that libraries have played in the development of their imaginative work. Co-sponsored by the New Haven Free Public Library and Yale University Press. 133 Elm Street (enter lower level on Temple St.) Free & open to the Continue Reading

  • Tuesday Evening Meditation

    Philip Marrett Room

    Meditation includes many different techniques to promote self-awareness, relaxation, mindfulness, build internal energy or life force and to develop compassion, love, patience, generosity and forgiveness.

  • Microsoft Word II – Class

    Tech Center

    Use Word to create documents that are key in today’s world for job searching and so much else. Learn how to create a cover letter using Word.

  • Windham Campbell Prizes >>> Good Girls, Bad Girls, Whtie Girls, and Clever Girls

    Community Program Room

    Professor Amy Hungerford talks to Hilton Als, Helen Garner, and Tessa Hadley about how this resistance comes to shape the work of the writer. Amy Hungerford is Professor of English and Dean of the Humanities Division at Yale. Co-sponsored by the New Haven Free Public Library and the Department of English. Share Free and open to the public.

  • LEGO Club

    Children's Program Room

    Come play with everyone's favorite building bricks. We have the LEGOs, you have the ideas!