Sponsored Programs
Family FUNDay
On the first Saturday of every month watch your children laugh, sing, dance and be entertained by professional magicians, puppeteers, theatre troupes and more. One Saturday children may be flapping their wings to a song or petting a parrot. On another Saturday they may be creating characters from Snow White out of balloons.
Check the Hoboken Library Calendar to see what's coming up next!
Museum Passes
Friends & Foundation buys museum passes that library patrons can check out as easily as checking out a book. Just go to the Circulation Desk at the Hoboken Public Library, show your adult library card, and ask for a free museum pass to any number of museums in New York and New Jersey.
Visit the Library's website for all the detail and get a list of museums you can visit for free.
Library Book Drive
Friends & Foundation manages a book drive. We collect gently used bestselling novels, classics, mysteries, cookbooks, travel books, memoirs, history books, young adult books, and children's books.
Please stay tuned for dates of our next drive!
Community Care Kits
The Hoboken Public Library distributes Community Care Kits to help serve individual needs. Friends & Foundation funds the purchase of care kits that contain essential relief items, including hygiene kits, period kits, code blue kits, & life-saving kits.
These kits are distributed based on need to Hoboken community members.
Hoboken Oral History Project
The oral history project was initiated in 2000 to capture, through the recollections of longtime residents, the working-class identity and tradition of multi-ethnic living that has been disappearing as Hoboken has gentrified. These stories have been turned into a series of "chapbooks". The books are produced by the Hoboken Historical Museum and partially funded by Hoboken Public Library Friends & Foundation.
Visit the Historical Museum’s website to read these Hoboken stories.
Capital Projects
A major goal of Hoboken Public Library Friends & Foundation is to advocate for and support the library’s historic building and infrastructure, and to help extend the footprint of the library to serve Hoboken’s growing community.
Our legacy organizations have long supported library capital projects including:
- Renovation of the children’s reading room (Hoboken Public Library Foundation)
- Refurbishing, furnishing, and decorating the library’s meditation garden (Friends of the Hoboken Public Library, the Hoboken Library Foundation, and the Hoboken Public Library)
- Purchase of the historically accurate reproduction front doors (Friends of the Hoboken Public Library)
- Purchase of archival storage solutions for historic artifacts and documents (Friends of the Hoboken Public Library)
Learn more about the plans and status of capital projects at the main branch of the Hoboken Public Library.
Events
Sip & Tell
Library Festival
Books & Brews
March 1st, 2024
Books & Brews
Library Festival
Books & Brews
November 2nd, 2023
Library Festival
Library Festival
Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
October 14th, 2023
Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
Hudson Gives
Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
National Night Out
National Night Out
Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
National Night Out
Shake Shack Donation Day
Shake Shack Donation Day
Shake Shack Donation Day
Novel Night
Shake Shack Donation Day
Shake Shack Donation Day
A Moveable Feast
Shake Shack Donation Day
A Moveable Feast