MONTCLAIR, NJ (February 5, 2026) — On Saturday, February 21, at 4 p.m., the Montclair Public Library will host award-winning television producer and author A’Lelia Bundles, in a talk with Princeton professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad about Bundles’s new biography of A’Lelia Walker, her great-grandmother, the hair care heiress and patroness of the Harlem Renaissance. Bundles...
MONTCLAIR, NJ (February 3, 2026) — Montclair Public Library is pleased to announce that library cardholders now have free access to LinkedIn Learning, an online education platform offering thousands of video courses taught by real-world experts. LinkedIn Learning is an award-winning industry leader in online training, with a digital library of over 16,000 courses covering...
MONTCLAIR, NJ (January 28, 2026) — The Montclair Public Library is proud to present the photography of Michael Yellin, a local amateur birder and bird photographer. This exhibit will be on view in the library gallery at 50 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042 from February 2, 2026 and completing on February 28, 2026. The...
MONTCLAIR, NJ (January 21, 2026) — On Monday, February 21, at 4 p.m., the Montclair Public Library will welcome Amy Wallace, the ghostwriter of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, to a Zoom talk with Gabrielle Glaser (“American...
MONTCLAIR, NJ (January 16, 2026) — Montclair Public Library is proud to announce a year-long series of programs and events honoring a century of national Black history commemorations in the United States. The series, titled “Come Celebrate With Me: 100 Years of Honoring Black History,” recognizes the origins of organized Black history observances dating back...
MONTCLAIR, NJ (January 15, 2026) — Montclair Public Library is excited to announce the launch of “1000 Books Before Kindergarten,” a free early-literacy initiative designed to encourage families to read together, laying the foundation for a lifelong love of reading. This program challenges parents and caregivers to read 1,000 books with their child before they...
MONTCLAIR, NJ (December 1, 2025) — The Montclair Public Library invites the community to celebrate Kwanzaa on Saturday, December 13 with a local marketplace and a series of family-friendly free festivities. This celebration is part of the Library’s tradition of featuring Kwanzaa as a keystone of its winter programming. Taking place on Saturday, December 13...
Montclair, NJ — September 23, 2025 — The Montclair Public Library (MPL), in collaboration with Seed Artists is proud to announce The Peter Bodge & Seed Artists Jazz Library, a landmark cultural resource for the community and a platform for future programming. The opening celebration will take place on Sunday, October 12, at 4:00 pm,...
