Photographs/videos may be taken at library events for library publicity purposes in print or online. No names will be included with the photos/videos. If you do not wish for photos/videos of you, your child, or your teen to be taken please alert the staff member running the event before the start of each program.
Free Friday Movie Night
The Friends of the WTPL will be presenting a monthly movie night at the library. Enjoy snacks, drinks, good company, and a newly released DVD.
Dining For Dollars
The Friends of the Washington Township Library are proud to once again offer Dining For Dollars
at ENCHANTED CHOCOLATE in Hastings Square on February 4. To learn more and to print off the flyer (black and white copies are acceptable), click here.
New Technology Classes for Adults!
The Library will be offering a series of technology classes beginning January 26. Click here for details or go to the Adults page to sign up.
Inspiring Film Series to Be Shown
The Library will host a series of five films monthly through April. The first film, Carbon Nation, is an optimistic discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing, and what the world needs to do to slow down the impending climate crisis. For more information click here.
More Great News for Kindle Owners!
Did you miss Dr. Brian Friedlander's recent presentation on the Kindle, or would you like to review his slides? Dr. Friedlander was kind enough to provide us with a link to his PowerPoint presentation, which you can view on GoogleDocs.
Kindle owners can download ebooks from our OverDrive web site, LibraryLinkNJ. Click here for instructions.
Ready to Visit a Museum?
The Friends of the Library have purchased a museum pass for the Guggenheim and vouchers for the American Museum of Natural History. They were unable to renew the Liberty Science Center pass, but you can still get a discount there. Click here for details.
Email Notification of Holds
Are your phone notifications of books on hold often garbled or cut off? Or do others in your household take the message and never tell you? If so, you may want to receive your hold notifications by email. As an additional bonus, you will also receive a reminder three days before items you have borrowed are due. To move to email notification, just come to the Library and ask any of our staff at the Circulation Desk to make the change for you. You can also make the change yourself by going to the catalog homepage and clicking on Add/Update My Email Address. Fill in the required information, check the box in front of Notify me via email when Holds are ready to be picked up, and then choose your pickup library.
This Month's Display
The photography of Kaspar Haycock is on display at our Library during the month of December. Kaspar writes:
These photos are from my visits to New York City, San Francisco, Charleston, and Paris. When taking my photos, composition and contrast are very important to me; the last thing I want is a dull. flat photograph. The emotional aspects of my photographs are also important to me. The photo should either be intimidating or inviting; it's important to me that the emotion be conveyed and understood.
I am currently a senior at West Morris Central High School. I am planning to go to college to study photography and make it my career.
WTPL Walking Tour
WTPL's Teen Activity Group (TAG) has created a Walking Tour of the Library! Watch the video below to take a tour of WTPL with TAG.
EBSCO Mobile Research on the go with full-text databases includes: general reference, magazine and newspapers, business, politics, current events, health, litarature, studentresources, and more. Find ithere.
NoveList Plus Plot descriptions, reviews, read-a-likes and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes other fiction and non-fiction resources, such as author read-alikes and annotated book lists. Searchable by age, grade, genre, and more. Find ithere.
eBooks/Audiobooks
OverDrive's FREE app for iPhone®& Android™ now supports direct downloads of eBooks & MP3 Audiobooks from the library's ownloadable collection.Find more info or download it here! Please note: eBooks & Audiobooks can also be transfered to other devices (learn more).
The Library provides wireless Internet that can be used by anyone with a wireless-enabled laptop. You do not have to be a patron. You should know how to connect your own laptop to a wireless network. There may not be anyone at the Library who can provide technical assistance. Your laptop may display a number of Library wireless networks; you can connect to a network if it has an “unlocked” symbol (an open lock) next to it. You don’t have to enter a password to connect to a network, and this means that the network is not secure. This is not a problem unless you need to transfer confidential information, such as passwords or credit card information, in which case you may want to wait until you have access to a secured network.
Washington Township Public Library is a member of the Morris Automated Information Network (M.A.I.N.),
which provides online information and access to the collections of all 37 member libraries.