ABOUT THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

The Friends of New Brunswick Free Public Library have made significant contributions to the library and to the services we provide for the community. The Friends is an active service organization promoting library activities and raising funds. Through the efforts of the Friends, the library is provided with additional materials, programs and equipment.

The Goal of the Friends group is to stimulate awareness and use of the library, and promote reading and life long learning. Become a Friend, and with your membership, enable the library to share with the community the wealth of knowledge in a speaker or a book.

You can become a Member of the Friends or make a donation to the library by downloading and filling out the Friends brochure here (en español), or by visiting the Library.

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MEMBERS

Executive Board
Jennie Fischer, President
Alyce Jenkins, Vice-President
Charles L. Renda, Secretary
George Dawson, Treasurer

Robert Belvin    Marie Borbely
Cecilia Claflen    Eloine Dunlap
Eudora Mason    Harvey Schrier
Teresa Vivar    Bernard Downey

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY EVENTS

Friends of the New Brunswick Free Public Library Lunch-Time Programs
12:15 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month, in the library’s Community Room.

Download a copy of the Friends Lunchtim Program schedule.

October 1   
Politics in the Year of Two Primaries: Rutgers political scientist Gerald Pomper offers a perspective in a year when New Jersey party voters went to the polls twice to select candidates for local and national office.

November 5   
What's Happening: James Hughes, dean of Rutgers Bloustein School and coeditor of the Sitar Rutgers Regional Report delivers his insights on what is happening in (and to) New Jersey.

December 5   
Music from Mason Gross: Student musicians from Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts will play classical compositions.

January 2, 2009   
Schools Report: School Superintendent Richard Kaplan returns with an update on how the Schools Construction Corp. work on the new city high school is progressing, what happened to Redshaw School, and other scholastic matters.

February 4   
Growin' Stuff in New Brunswick: Urban Gardening.

March 5   
New Brunswick Report: New Brunswick Mayor James M. Cahill will speak.

April 1   
More from Mason Gross.

May 6   
American History in Music: Guitarist-lecturer Richard Roden will deliver the history of the United States through World War I in song, periodically accompanying himself by guitar and audience sing-alongs. A New Jersey Council for the Humanities program.

June 3    
It Wouldn't Be the Hub City if Nothing Happened Here: City historian George Dawson will reprise the history of New Brunswick from Peter Stuyvesant to the Hungarian Revolution.

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The Friends of the New Brunswick Free Public Library Book Club
Mondays at 1:30 p.m. in the Library's Community Room. The only requirements are to have read the book and be willing to discuss it.

Download a copy of the Friends Book Club Schedule.

September 29, 2008
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin. Based on interviews with the justices, Toobin focuses on a Court in transition toward a conservative majority.

October 27, 2008
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. A young Chilean woman experiences greed, violence, and courage when she tries to find a lost lover in the California of the 1849 gold rush.

November 17, 2008
Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood. Funny, lyrical, and poignant short stories about the life of one woman from girlhood to old age.

December 15, 2008
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen. The true story of an American mountaineer who was befriended by a remote Pakistani village and how he has since built 55 schools especially for girls.

January 26, 2009
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twon Eng. An epic novel about a young Malayan boy who grows up during WWII amidst the savage Japanese invasion.

February 23, 2009
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. A hardboiled murder mystery set in an imagined Jewish settlement in Alaska.

March 3, 2009
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat. A poignant story of a family who escapes the poverty and terror of Haiti.

April 27, 2009
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts. American women who were active between John Adams' 1797 inauguration and his son's inauguration in 1825.

May 18, 2009
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. Short stories illumining the lives of immigrants to America, illustrating Lahiri's masterful gift for portraying emotion.

June 15, 2009
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. A Dominican American boy's travails as he yearns to be a writer and to fall in love.

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