Events

Each month features a unique reading theme to inspire your next literary adventure.

What is a StoryWalk®? StoryWalks® combine literacy with physical activity, placing large, colorful book pages at regular intervals along a walking route. Simple activities accompany [...]

Featuring the artwork of local artist Alex Ranniello.

Write the first line of an imaginary novel using exactly ONE sentence.

Join us for an afternoon movie!

To register for a time slot, call 860-828-7126 or visit the Adult Reference Desk.

Kick off summer with an outdoor concert by the New Britain Symphony Orchestra's Steel Drum Ensemble. 

An exclusive preview event with New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell as she introduces readers to her forthcoming title Don’t Let Him In.

Join Miss Britt for dancing and stories!

Join us for knitting and good company.

Learn about the school buildings in Berlin and the people for whom they are named.

Join us for an afternoon movie!

Earn tickets for raffles and prizes!

Read & Bead: Dragon Quest begins June 16th!

Earn prizes instantly by joining the Read Across the Realm Scratch Ticket Challenge!

Join us to share practical information, feelings, needs and concerns. This group meets monthly as a safe place for caregivers, family and friends of persons with dementia.

Learn the strategies, tactics, personalities, and results of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Pottery painted dragons, fairies and unicorns!

Look at those dragon eggs shimmer!

Get your jammies on for storytime fun!

The library will be closed for Juneteenth.

Keynote speaker Dr. Amanda Anderson discusses the radical Black Women’s Movements of the1970s and ’80s and explores the connected histories between Black women’s liberation politics and the study of collective minoritarian affect, feelings, emotions.

Join us for a celebration of American movements and people who have changed the landscape of liberation and freedom as we know it.

Celebrate Juneteenth with a fun, creative, and meaningful craft!

Professor Matthew Warshaeur discusses the rights of an American citizen, as well as what—and who—defines citizenship.

Join Dan Morrison for a guided viewing of selections from Pushing the Rock, a short documentary about the history and formation of systemic racism in America.

Join presenter Nicole Thomas to discover powerful stories of resilience and resistance along New London's Black Heritage Trail.

Can you use a compass to find the treasure?

This month’s cookbook is The Love & Lemons Cookbook: An Apple-to-Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking by Jeanine Donofrio.

Take home your own unique sandy souvenir!

Join us as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder.

Join us as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder.

Epic Fantasy Board Game Play!

Join us for knitting and good company.

Ed Popielarczyk is a professional magician, balloon sculptor, flea circus ringmaster, and storyteller. Ed’s magic show is a comedy show that uses a lot of [...]

Join us for an afternoon movie!

Join us for a discussion of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty. Contact the library for a copy of the book.   About the Book [...]

How EPIC of a castle can you build?

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Write a list of five items you would put in a time capsule.

Get help in your job search with American Job Center!

Join us for knitting and good company.

The library will be closed for Independence Day.

The library will be closed for Independence Day.

Join us for knitting and good company.

Join us for an afternoon movie!

Join us for knitting and good company.

Join us for an afternoon movie!

Join us to share practical information, feelings, needs and concerns. This group meets monthly as a safe place for caregivers, family and friends of persons with dementia.

Join us for knitting and good company.