257 Second Street
Palisades Park, NJ 07650
(201) 585-4150
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welcome
Palisades Park Public Library is a member of the BCCLS group of 75 public libraries in Bergen, Hudson, Passaic and Essex Counties, NJ. In our own library we have more than 57,000 items available for borrowing, and through the BCCLS system, we give access to more than 3 million items through the Bergen County Cooperative Library System (BCCLS) and 10 million through OpenBorrowing of BCCLS, LMxAC, MAIN, PALS, Sussex County and Warren County. Go to BCCLS Catalog at www.bccls.org for access to entire BCCLS collection. For an Open Borrowing participating library see the list.
mission
The mission of the Palisades Park Public Library is to provide our public with insight to enrich mind and spirit, and encourage a lifetime love of learning. We aim to inform, educate and enrich our community through inclusion of our diversities and commonalities. The Library places special emphasis on guiding young people toward a love of reading and an awareness of books and other library materials as a means of satisfying their needs and interests. The Library has a strong commitment to intellectual freedom and to freedom of access to information.
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School of Visual Arts Exhibit and Reception
The Palisades Park Free Public Library at 257 Second Street is hosting an art
exhibit of 35 alumni, students and teachers from the prestigious School of Visual
Arts in New York City. The School of Visual Arts (SVA) is widely considered to be
one of the leading art schools in the United States. Established in 1947 by Silas
Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, it was renamed
in 1956 and offered its first degrees in 1972. Works of alumni from the 1960s to
present, as well as current students and teachers, are displayed in this special
two-week exhbit from August 30 through September 10th at the Library.
On Friday September 10th from 7-9 pm, there wil be a "Meet the Artists" reception.
Please feel free to attend! Among the artists on display are Lou Spina, Tom Daly,
Steve Cavallo, Stephen Andolino, Shana Hong, and Juhee Kim.
For more information, please call the Library at 201-585-4150.
The State of New Jersey unveiled its newest Website, NJ Parent Link, The Early Childhood, Parenting and Professional Resource Center.
http://www.njparentlink.nj.gov
NJ Parent Link is a broad based public/private initiative (10 state departments and 14 community/professional partners) supported by the federal Health Resources & Services Administration’s, State Early Childhood Comprehensive System (ECCS) Program Grant (2009-2012).
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services is the lead agency for this project, coordinating over 30 government service units participating on the website development team.
Highlighting state services and resources, the goal of NJ Parent Link is to improve the accessibility, coordination and delivery of information and services to parents of young children, to improve the communication capabilities between the public and private sectors, and provide the IT foundation for inter/intra agency service collaborations and policy development.
Innovative website features include: interactive consumer content sections; tailored subscription services, a community calendar of events; continuing education/leadership postings; a children’s art gallery and streaming video for public service announcements.
Can you hear their voices?
Can You Hear their Voices? was a unique event at the Palisades Park Public Library.
It honored and raised funds for the Comfort Women at the House of Sharing in Korea who were sexually enslaved during World War II. Below you will see clips from the event, as well as an impassioned talk by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, author of the book Silence Broken, on the silent suffering of these women.
At the April meeting of the Palisades Park Mayor & Council, a resolution was unanimously passed to create a memorial to the Comfort Women who suffered atrocities during World War II and whose voices were silenced for so long. The memorial will be placed in front of the Palisades Park Public Library where everyone can give homage to these courageous and unsung women of many countries across Asia, and in particular, Korea. This will be the first memorial of its kind on public land in the United States.
Art @ Palisades Park Library
view the 2009 brochure
view the 2008 brochure
view the 2007 brochure
view the 2006 brochure
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