Laugh Out Loud - Sunday, June 22 @ 2pm

Laugh Out Loud at the Library

One of the best things about summer is that there are all kinds of surprises in store for the community at the library! The Long Hill Township Library invites you to Laugh Out Loud at the Library with a Comedy Show on Sunday, June 22 at 2pm. The Comedy Show is free and open to the public. The Long Hill Library is located at 917 Valley Road, Gillette, NJ.

Jane Mullooly, a local comic from Gillette NJ, will be joined by fellow comics/storytellers from New York for an afternoon of fun and laughs at the library. Jane has always craved an audience in one way or another and has satisfied the craving at work as a teacher/trainer or as a hobby doing theatre, improv and stand-up comedy. Jane's irreverent sense of humor is exacerbated by her down-to-earth style and Northern English accent. 

Dan Colgan from NYC blends his love of music with his many and varied life experiences. It all started when he was born - the youngest of ten in an Irish Catholic family. The rest, as they say, is history. 

Erin Whalen's take on daily life in NYC will cause you to never view what you thought were everyday things in quite the same way again. Her candid view of life brings a fresh and funny perspective on the day to day. Erin is the new normal.

Nhu An Do is a recovering financial analyst. Her therapy entails performance stunts such as storytelling, singing her songs and freaking her family out with her threat to come out as an artist. She is a Moth story slam winner and she combines her ukulele with story-telling to create a unique performance that is both poignant and funny. 

The director, Judith Stevens-Ly, directs and produces shows in Off- Broadway theatres in NYC and is a consultant director/dramaturg with the NYU Tisch School's department of Dramatic Writing in their playwriting MFA program. She has been involved with the Kennedy Centre American College Theatre Festival and has been a featured guest artist at numerous theatre festivals throughout the US.

Join us for a laugh at the library on Sunday, June 22 at 2pm.

Protect Your Identity Events @ Long Hill Library

Protect Your Identity -  Shredding Events

Admit it. You have them.

They lurk — in the attic, under the bed, in the back of the closet, under the stairs, in the basement and garage — yes, old pay stubs, checks, bank statements, doctors’ bills, insurance reports and financial statements of all sorts. They contain sensitive information — Social Security and account numbers, date of birth and address — and there may be years’ worth from before the dawn of online banking and bill paying. It could take seemingly forever to run them one by one through a home shredder.

Help is on the way.

The Long Hill Township Library has two events for you. 

The first is on Tuesday, Oct 22 at 7pm called Protect Your Identity - What to Keep and What to Toss. You’ll find out how long to save financial and tax records, what documents can be recycled or needed to be shredded, and how to safely store your documents in this time of identify theft. This program is being presented by Claudia Mott, CFP, CDFA & Mary Sunderland, CFA, CFP, IRS Enrolled Agent.

The second event is Long Hill Library’s Shredding Day for the Community on Saturday, Nov 2 from 9am to Noon.

A shredding truck from Security Shredding will be in the library’s parking lot from 9am til Noon to shred your papers.

Shredding Day is a fund-raiser for the library. The Shredding fees are $5 per grocery bag, $10 per box, and $35 per 30 gallon garbage bag.

This is an opportunity for you to securely dispose of your confidential and personal documents. The Security Shredding truck uses the latest state of the art equipment and shreds documents while you watch. Security Shredding is licensed, fully bonded and insured. You drive in, unload your papers and drive out with peace of mind.

Long Hill Township Library
917 Valley Rd, Gillette, NJ 07933
908-647-2088
www.longhilllibrary.org

Keys To Unlocking Financial Aid at Long Hill Library

Keys To Unlocking Financial Aid at Long Hill Library

Tuesday, October 15 at 7pm

Most families are concerned with how to pay for college and are unfamiliar with how financial aid works.  The Long Hill Library in Gillette is sponsoring The Keys to Unlocking Financial Aid, a free program for high school students and their parents on October 15th at 7 PM.  By the end of this program, attendees will be able to answer these questions:

•How can I estimate how much need-based financial aid my family qualifies for?
•What colleges are most likely to provide me (or my child) with merit aid? 
•How can I be a smart consumer when selecting colleges? 

If you want to know how to reduce costs, increase funds, and get better college aid, join Rana Slosberg of Slosberg College Solutions LLC for this informative 90-minute program.  Rana works with high school students and their families on the college selection and application process.  She is a member of the Higher Education Consultants Association and the New Jersey Association for College Admission Counseling. 
  
Register for this event at the Long Hill Library at 908-647-2088.

Long Hill Library
917 Valley Rd
Gillette, NJ 07933
908-647-2088
www.longhilllibrary.org

Explore the Morris County Libraries with Passport to Imagination

Explore the Morris County Libraries and you may win a prize while you're at it!

The Long Hill Township Library will participate again this September in the Morris County Library Consortium’s Passport to Imagination contest. The contest, which runs throughout the month, encourages Morris county residents to check out other libraries in the Morris county library network. 

To participate, library card holders must first obtain a MAIN “passport” from their home library and then visit five additional MAIN libraries where the passport will be stamped. Library card holders who complete this series of library visits will be entered into a contest to win an Apple  iPad 3, Google Nexus 7, or Kindle Paperwhite. The contest will be held from September 1, 2013 through September 30, 2013. 

"It's so exciting for our library to be able to offer so many materials to our patrons," said Circulation Supervisor Clarissa Wagner.  “It’s a great example of the kind of shared services New Jersey residents want to see happening.”

New for 2013 is a special children’s contest called Captain MAINia’s Adventures, an inter-library scavenger hunt open to all Passport to Imagination players under 10 years old. If they are able to find Captian MAINia’s hot air balloon in the Children’s Room of each of the six libraries they visit, they will be eligible for extra prizes. Prizes will be awarded at the county-wide Passport drawing at the Morris County Library in October.

M.A.I.N., Inc., the Morris Automated Information Network, is a consortium of 37 public libraries in northern New Jersey serving a population of over a half million residents. Through its participation in the MAIN network the Long Hill Township Library is able to offer residents more than two million items that can be checked out, including books, CD’s, videos, DVD’s and downloadable audio and e-books.   
   

Digitally Preserve Your Memories - Great Holiday Gifts!

 

The holidays are coming! Memories make a perfect gift!

Drop in on Saturday, Sept 28, 10:30 am to 1:30 pm

Have you thought about having your 8mm home movies copied to DVD? Or been interested in finding out a better way to digitally preserve all your snapshots?

The library has partnered with Innovative Document Imaging (IDI) to provide digital preservation services to the community. IDI can help you preserve personal collections of print, photographs, slides and audio-visual material including VHS, 8mm and 16mm film for an affordable fee.

IDI will review your items, discuss digital preservations options with you, and give you an estimate for the work.

Twenty percent of all proceeds from the session will be donated to the library. The digital preservation session will take place on Saturday, Sept 28 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm at the library. Drop in any time!

At Long Hill Township Library
917 Valley Road
Gillette, NJ 07933
908-647-2088
www.longillibrary.org

Growing Beautiful Chrysanthemums

Sat, Sept 14 @ 11am

Did you know there are hundreds of varieties of chrysanthemums besides the mound-like plants we see every fall?  Some varieties grow up to six feet tall! 

This program will teach you how to grow some of these phenomenal beauties.  Different cultivars for the garden and/or containers will be discussed along with detailed information on planting and caring for mums and how to get the most flowers per plant. 

Once you see the gorgeous photos, you will be inspired to try some of the different chrysanthemums and might end up growing some prize winning flowers!

Presented by Morris County Master Gardener Wing-Yee Pavlosky.

At Long Hill Township Library
917 Valley Rd
Gillette, NJ 07933
908-647-2088
www.longhilllibrary.org

Music of Buddy Holly & Roy Orbison @ Long Hill Library

Rave On!

Sun, Sept 15 @ 2pm

"Rave On" with Chris Roselle features the music of Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly—the music that influenced & inspired countless other artists including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

Rave On! will play hits such as  "Crying," “That’ll Be The Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “Not Fade Away,” “Oh Boy,” “It’s So Easy” and “Rave On!,” along with other classic early rock & roll songs. 

Don't miss it!  Dancing in the aisles strongly encouraged!

At Long Hill Township Library

917 Valley Rd

Gillette, NJ 07933

908-647-2088

www.longhilllibrary.org