We Want Your Input!

The New Rochelle Public Library Board of Trustees is hosting a community meeting at 7:00 pm tonight to gather input from New Rochelle residents and Library patrons regarding the Library’s programming, services and facilities. 

Attend in person (Ossie Davis Theater at the Main Library, masks required) or virtually, via Zoom.

Please click here to learn more.

NRPL’s Summer Reading Challenge: Tails and Tales is here, which means we’re honoring awesome animals all summer long! It’s a week of sun and sand at the library as we trek through the world’s most amazing deserts. Quench your thirst for knowledge as you read about such strange creatures as the marsupial mole and the kangaroo rat and learn why the shovel-snouted lizard does a dance! Click here for a list of wonderful books about deserts. We have suggestions for all levels of readers! An oasis awaits you!

The Children's Room at the Main Library is back with a mix of virtual and in-person programs, more Pick-Me-Ups, and the Tails & Tales Summer Reading Challenge! Find a list of programs below and for more details on the programs, view our calendar here.

Tickets are required to attend. One ticket per Program Pod. Tickets can be picked up from the Children’s Room 1 hour and 30 minutes prior to the program start time. First come, first served. Please arrive at the program on time. Ticket holders will not be admitted if they are more than 10 minutes late.

Virtual Programs through Facebook Live: 

Here's to all the fun we've had so far and how much fun we'll have as our summer programs continue at the Main Library and the Huguenot Children's Library!

This Saturday, July 31st, at 10:00 AM PST/ 1:00 PM EST, Gabrielle’s Wings, one of our local partners, is joyously hosting a virtual book club gathering in celebration of what would be Gabrielle's 12th birthday, and we'd love for you to join! The featured book, My Name is Not Isabella: Just How Big Can a Little Girl Dream? by Jennifer Fosberry is from our Gabrielle’s Corner collection at the New Rochelle Public Library. This delightful read tells the story of young Isabella trying on the personalities of daring women throughout history, and is fun for the whole family! Please click here to sign up. 

Can you spot all 10 desert animals in our Wild Word Hunt?

Bobby has hankerings for a grilled cheese sandwich and nonfiction early readers. Lucky for him Blastoff Readers’ Our Favorite Foods series can help satisfy both cravings. Hear all about it in the video above!

Animals all around! Tails & Tales: Summer Reading Challenge 2021 is here! Earn points and prizes throughout the summer by logging your reading activity. Learn more and sign up here!

Thanks to a generous grant from the New Rochelle Public Library Foundation, patrons of the New Rochelle Public Library can visit 25 area museums for free! To reserve your museum pass online click here, or simply visit the adult librarians at the main library.

The libraries are open with summer hours!