Tag: Allentown Library

  • Allentown library hosts summer reading clubs

    Allentown library hosts summer reading clubs

    ALLENTOWN – The Allentown Public Library, a branch of the Monmouth County Library System, is busy registering and logging in active readers for summer reading clubs that run through Aug. 11. The Allentown Public Library Association, in support of this annual program, organized a contest for “kids of all ages” to design bookmarks that would…

  • Illustrated history of New Jersey donated to library

    Illustrated history of New Jersey donated to library

    ALLENTOWN – An illustrated history of New Jersey – “Envisioning New Jersey: An illustrated History of the Garden State” – has been donated to the Allentown Public Library’s Van Kirk New Jersey Collection. “Envisioning New Jersey: An illustrated History of the Garden State” is the work of Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit, according…

  • Library to launch One Town, One Book program

    Library to launch One Town, One Book program

    By Mark Rosman Staff Writer ALLENTOWN – “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry” (2014) by Gabrielle Zevin will be the first book residents of Allentown and Upper Freehold Township read as a community in the Allentown Library’s One Town, One Book initiative. The library, Main Street, will host a launch party for One Town, One…