Sponsored Programs

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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!

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.

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. Periodically, we conduct used book sales, offering titles to the public at low cost with the proceeds benefiting the library.

Please stay tuned for dates of our next drive! 

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.

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. 

The Hoboken Public Library offers free Tai Chi classes for seniors as part of its commitment to community wellness. This mind-body program is designed specifically for older adults. Tai Chi is a gentle, low-impact form of exercise that helps improve balance, memory, flexibility, and overall mental and physical well-being. This program is funded by the Friends & Foundation of the Hoboken Public Library whose support helps make enriching wellness opportunities like this available to the community at no cost.

See the Library's Event Calendar for the latest class schedule.

As part of the Library’s Small Business Series for Kids & Teens, the Beauty That Cares Workshop invites young creators to explore how their favorite hobbies can grow into real businesses. Over six exciting weeks, participants learn to craft their own beauty products, like lip balm, bath bombs, and nail polish, while gaining hands-on experience in branding, selling, and giving back.

This program empowers young people to unleash their creativity and develop entrepreneurial skills in a fun, supportive environment.