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March Staff Picks
It's almost St. Patrick's Day and you're in luck! We have some new recommendations for you!
Cathy Decampli
Mar 9, 20203 min read


Remembering Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson passed from the mortal world into the stars today, at the age of 101. If you haven’t watched Hidden Figures, a quick...

Aleksandra Brittain
Feb 24, 20205 min read


Reading Into the Immigrant Experience
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins has had an interesting spotlight cast on it in recent days, from Oprah’s glowing book club...

Aleksandra Brittain
Feb 10, 20204 min read


February's Staff Picks
Looking for something new to read? Your friendly neighborhood library staff is here with a few suggestions. From Amy R - A story of...
Cathy Decampli
Feb 3, 20202 min read


Noon Year's Eve!
Sometimes, it’s not in the cards to keep your little one up until midnight. Frankly, most of the time it’s a bad idea! That’s why we...

Aleksandra Brittain
Jan 9, 20201 min read


New Year, New Words
The good folks and lexicographers at Merriam-Webster calculate interest in and impact of a given word by how often people look it up...

Aleksandra Brittain
Dec 30, 20191 min read


Notes on Gratitude
Still befuddled by what you're going to say when someone asks you what you're thankful for this year? Not sure how to be grateful for the...

Aleksandra Brittain
Nov 25, 20192 min read


Poetry Popping instead of Pill-Popping
You know how listening to a piece of music can change your mood? Sometimes you need a jolt out of your doldrums and jumping around your...

Aleksandra Brittain
Nov 5, 20192 min read


Silent and yet sociable: that’s a Silent Book Club
It’s not anything like a silent disco, and it’s not the same thing as Goodreads’ Book Club for Introverts, an online program allowing for...

Aleksandra Brittain
Sep 13, 20192 min read


Coding Apps for Kids
A short browse through the app store and you quickly realize that there really is an app for everything. While games, streaming videos,...
Cathy Decampli
Apr 17, 20182 min read


April is National Poetry Month
National Library Month is one of those things that typically rivals, unsuccessfully, National Library Week, in public libraries, an event...
Cathy Decampli
Apr 2, 20182 min read


New Jersey Makers Day
On March 10th we joined hundreds of other New Jersey schools, makerspaces, and libraries to celebrate New Jersey Makers Day and the...
Cathy Decampli
Mar 20, 20181 min read


YA Central: Killer Reads
Everyone loves a good mystery to get the deductive juices flowing. These mysteries have it all: a decades old kidnapping, murderous...
Cathy Decampli
Feb 22, 20185 min read


The Great American Eclipse
Monday's eclipse was truly historic and the library was proud to be a part of the action. Thanks to a grant from Star-Net, NASA, The...
Cathy Decampli
Aug 23, 20171 min read


YA Central: Friendship
Sometimes high school can feel impossible to navigate. With academics, family, and extracurricular activities it can easily feel like the...
Cathy Decampli
Jul 28, 20174 min read


Stop Motion Mania
The library's summer STEAM classes wrapped up this week with some more stop motion animation. Creativity was flowing as the groups...
Cathy Decampli
Jul 28, 20171 min read


Full STEAM Ahead
Haddonfield kids have been busy at the library. They have been coding art, programming robots, and creating their own short films. All of...
Cathy Decampli
Jul 18, 20171 min read


Coding in the Library
This month we completed our first ever coding class in the library and had a lot of fun doing it. Following Google's CS First curriculum,...
Cathy Decampli
Jun 27, 20171 min read


HPL's New Virtual Home
Welcome to our new home! We hope this site will offer an easy, more streamlined experience for library users. Take a look around and...
Cathy Decampli
May 22, 20171 min read
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