Meriden Public Library

Do you struggle with getting everything on your to do list done in a timely manner?
Join us for an informative session on personal time management, when we will go over tips and strategies to help you make the most of your time and efficiently get things done.

Local Event: Life Hacks Series: Time Management

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Meriden

Connecticut

Life Hacks Series: Time Management

Do you struggle with getting everything on your to do list done in a timely manner?
Join us for an informative session on...

We're Golden at the library!
Create your favorite K Pop Demon Hunter characters out of Perler Beads.
Staff will iron your creations. This program is best suited for children ages 6-years-old and older.
Registration is required for this event.
Participants must arrive within the first 15 minutes of the programs start to secure their spots.

Local Event: K Pop Demon Hunters Perler Beads

K Pop Demon Hunters Perler Beads

We're Golden at the library!
Create your favorite K Pop Demon Hunter characters out of Perler Beads.
Staff will iron your...

Snow-body has fun like us!
Come as a family or team up when you get here to battle it out with "snowballs."
This program is best suited to children ages 5-years-old and older.
Registration is requested for this program so staff know approximately how many people will be participating and what age ranges.

Local Event: Indoor "Snowball" Fight

Indoor "Snowball" Fight

Snow-body has fun like us!
Come as a family or team up when you get here to battle it out with "snowballs."
This program is...

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT, 06450

This club is for people who love classics, or who just want to try reading more of them. There will be a group book to read every month, as well as a viewing of the movie adaptation.
In this meeting, we will be watching the movie The Seagull (2018).

Local Event: Classics Clique

Classics Clique

This club is for people who love classics, or who just want to try reading more of them. There will be a group book to read...

There's no dough like snow dough!
Create, investigate, and play with snow dough during this fun event.
This program is best suited for children ages 5-years-old and older with siblings welcome.
Registration is required for this event.
Participants must arrive within the first 15 minutes of the programs start to secure their spot.

Local Event: STEAM Snow Dough

STEAM Snow Dough

There's no dough like snow dough!
Create, investigate, and play with snow dough during this fun event.
This program is best...

Ring in the new year early with us at the library with crafts, music, games, and a new years count down at 11:59am.
This event is best suited for families and all generations are welcome to participate.
Registration is requested to ensure library staff can prep enough activities for everyone.
We can't wait to celebrate 2026 with you!

Local Event: Noon Years Eve Party

Noon Years Eve Party

Ring in the new year early with us at the library with crafts, music, games, and a new years count down at 11:59am.
This event...

This club is for people who love classics, or who just want to try reading more of them. There will be a group book to read every month, as well as a viewing of the movie adaptation.
In this meeting, we will be discussing the December book pick The Seagull (1896) by Anton Chekhov, as well as its 2018 movie adaptation.

Join us for a sensory-friendly playtime where children and caregivers can interact with several stations of fun activities while socializing.
Stations include storytime, a craft, and interactive playtime.
Registration is required to best accommodate sensory requests.
Proudly partnered with Social Sabby.

Local Event: Sensory Playtime

Sensory Playtime

Join us for a sensory-friendly playtime where children and caregivers can interact with several stations of fun activities...

Ring in the new year with your own customized desktop calendar!
Choose from stickers, pressed flowers, and other embellishments.
Calendars will be provided.
*Please note earlier start time of 6pm.*
Registration required.

Local Event: Adult Monthly Craft Night - CD Jewel Case Calendar

Adult Monthly Craft Night - CD Jewel Case Calendar

Ring in the new year with your own customized desktop calendar!
Choose from stickers, pressed flowers, and other...

Start the new year off right by getting rid of excess digital clutter in your online accounts and on your phone! 
Librarians Angelina and Joanna will walk you through ways to eliminate unwanted digital files and emails, saving you space and helping to give you more peace of mind when trying to find your items online!

Local Event: Tech Topics: Digital Decluttering

Tech Topics: Digital Decluttering

Start the new year off right by getting rid of excess digital clutter in your online accounts and on your phone! 
Librarians...

Virtual Event with the Meriden Public Library 

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Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them and, in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, and yearning to be understood.
Register now to take part in a riveting and timeless conversation on how to connect with people from all walks of life, and why doing so is paramount to our individual and communal growth.
 About the Author: David Brooks is one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, a writer for The Atlantic, and appears regularly on PBS Newshour. He is the bestselling author of The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, The Social Animal, Bobos in Paradise, and On Paradise Drive.

Local Event: The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing...

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Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book,...

The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
A charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.
Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

Local Event: What's Next? Book Club

What's Next? Book Club

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
A charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship,...

Join us each month to learning new techniques with Mx. Paige and Miss Holly.
This month we will be experimenting with creating fox paintings while playing with shadows.
This program is best suited to children 8-years-old and older and registration is required.
Participants must arrive within the first 15 minutes of the program's start to secure their spot.

Local Event: Kid Art Club

Kid Art Club

Join us each month to learning new techniques with Mx. Paige and Miss Holly.
This month we will be experimenting with creating...

Do you struggle with using computers – such as with typing, operating a computer mouse, using an application such as Microsoft Word, saving a file, navigating a web browser to search online, and/or creating an email account?
Learn all this and more in a relaxing atmosphere with a one-to-one appointment with librarian Jane.
Individual 30-minute sessions will occur the third Thursday evening of every month; choose between a 5:30-6pm, 6:15-6:45pm, or 7-7:30pm time slot.
Please call Jane at 203-630-4748 to register.
Registration is required.
We will meet in Room 5.

Local Event: Basic One-to-One Computer Classes with Jane

Basic One-to-One Computer Classes with Jane

Do you struggle with using computers – such as with typing, operating a computer mouse, using an application such as Microsoft...

Elizabeth from the Meriden Department of Health and Human Services will be at the library in Meeting Room 5 from 10:30 - 11:30am providing free pop-up Naloxone training. This is a drop in style training that takes less than 10 minutes! Participants will learn:<ul><li>Signs and symptoms of an overdose </li><li>What Naloxone is and how to administer it </li><li>Local resources and support</li></ul>
 All attendees will get a Narcan kit and other prevention resources.

Local Event: FREE Pop-Up Community Naloxone Training

FREE Pop-Up Community Naloxone Training

Elizabeth from the Meriden Department of Health and Human Services will be at the library in Meeting Room 5 from 10:30 -...

Virtual Event with the Meriden Public Library

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Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. 
The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?” 
Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art, nature, movement, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression, “culture vitamins” for anxiety, a fishing club for ADHD, a farm-based day-care for dementia, a phone-buddy program for social isolation, and many more.
As the first book on social prescribing, The Connection Cure empowers you to find, experience, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. The success stories Julia finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better.
Register today to find out how you can use the wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life!
 About the Author: Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. The Connection Cure is her first book.

Local Event: Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz

Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with...

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Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her...

Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz

Have you seen our hydroponic garden Sprout?
Do you have questions on how hydroponics works?
Or questions about the plants in the hydroponic garden?
Stop by to ask questions and learn about our hydroponic garden.

Local Event: Hydroponic How To

Hydroponic How To

Have you seen our hydroponic garden Sprout?
Do you have questions on how hydroponics works?
Or questions about the plants in...

Celebrate the history and greatness of the UConn basketball teams with this fun, lively and enlightening presentation hosted by award-winning sportswriter and author Marty Gitlin. Take a journey from the beginning of the men's and women's programs to the present with video highlights of their greatest teams, players, and games from the mid-20th twentieth century to today.
Marty will talk about and show the moments these incredible teams turned dreams into national championships, as well as those whose seasons ended in disappointment. The best of the best will be featured here, including legendary coaches Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma and superstars such as Art Quimby, Walt Dropo, Diana Taurasi, Rebecca Lobo, Richard Hamilton, Sue Bird, Ray Allen, Kemba Walker, Emeka Okafor, Maya Moore and Paige Bueckers. The presentation will also feature fun trivia questions for patrons to ponder and answer, as well as a Q&amp;A following.
This is an ideal program for any UConn basketball fan - men's, women's or both! So join in on the fun!

Local Event: A History of Huskies Hoops: Legacy of Greatness

A History of Huskies Hoops: Legacy of Greatness

Celebrate the history and greatness of the UConn basketball teams with this fun, lively and enlightening presentation hosted by...

Starting slowly with beginner stretches and gentle movements, attendees will then move into a modified flow through traditional yoga poses with the guidance of yoga instructor Aime Meacham.
This hour long program includes sun salutation instruction, verbal and visual cueing, ending with a relaxing meditative savasana.
All skill levels welcome, modifications provided.
Participants should bring their own yoga mat or towel.
Any other props needed during the program will be available to borrow from the instructor.

Local Event: Gentle Flow Yoga

Gentle Flow Yoga

Starting slowly with beginner stretches and gentle movements, attendees will then move into a modified flow through traditional...

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Life Hacks Series: Time Management

DEC

29

3:00 PM

Meriden, CT

K Pop Demon Hunters Perler Beads

DEC

29

3:00 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Indoor "Snowball" Fight

DEC

30

2:00 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Classics Clique

DEC

30

5:30 PM

Meriden, CT

STEAM Snow Dough

DEC

30

6:00 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Noon Years Eve Party

DEC

31

10:30 AM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Classics Clique

JAN

5

3:00 PM

Meriden, CT

Sensory Playtime

JAN

6

5:00 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Adult Monthly Craft Night - CD Jewel Case Calendar

JAN

6

6:00 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Tech Topics: Digital Decluttering

JAN

12

3:00 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

JAN

13

2:00 PM

Meriden, CT

What's Next? Book Club

JAN

14

6:30 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Kid Art Club

JAN

15

5:00 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Basic One-to-One Computer Classes with Jane

JAN

15

5:30 PM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

FREE Pop-Up Community Naloxone Training

JAN

20

10:30 AM

Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT

Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz