Hoboken Public Library

🎉Big news for Hoboken!🏆 Our city has been awarded the prestigious Library Champion Award by New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) for its unwavering support of public libraries and intellectual freedom! Special shoutout to Jennie Pu, our amazing Library Director, for being named NJLA's 2024 Librarian of the Year - the first ever from Hudson County! Huge congrats to our Hoboken Public Library Board of Trustees for winning the Trustee Service Award too! Together, we're making the City of Hoboken a true Book Sanctuary City, celebrating diverse voices and stories. Here's to our incredible team and community for ensuring the library is a welcoming place for all. #HobokenProud #LibraryChampion #TheBookSanctuary #LibraryJoy #IntellectualFreedom #NJLA2024

Last week we cut the ribbon on our 3rd book locker, this one stationed at the Hoboken Historical Museum. But this isn't your ordinary locker! This is New Jersey's first remote library locker - a standalone library locker installed independent of library branch. The wrap is a specially commissioned design by Hoboken artist McKevin Shaughnessy; the front are photos of mascarons, the architectural faces adorning building facades in town, while the sides are our new branding. BCCLS Executive Director Dave Hanson said it best: “This is not just an amazing technological marvel, but a bulwark of the fight for freedom because this, ladies and gentlemen, is as important as anything because it is access.”

Thrilled to be the first -and certainly not the last! - New Jersey library to receive this national grant. Thank you American Library Association for supporting our Homelessness Advisory Group, a monthly program that empowers unhoused patrons by collaborating with them to provide essential and responsive tools and resources. https://lnkd.in/eT2NFYED

Wow! Over 7,500 library workers from all around the country convened in Columbus Ohio for the 2024 Public Library Association conference #PLA2024. We presented, we learned and we shared library love with none other than Mychal Threets and so many of our colleagues and friends.

Hoboken Public Library is hiring! 📣✨ We are currently looking for a Part-Time Library Assistant for our Information and Digital Services department. The application is open now and will close on April 19, 2024. Find out more about the position and apply on our website at HobokenLibrary.org/jobs.

Thank you Library of Congress for this incredible honor! We are so excited to add to the rich fabric of Hoboken's history as told through the unique lens of the Puerto Rican experience. #hoboken #libraries

Did you catch us on the news? Thanks so much to abc7NY for inviting our library director Jennie Pu to speak with Bill Ritter about book sanctuaries and the freedom to read! Hoboken Public Library is proud to be the first book sanctuary library in New Jersey, alongside the City of Hoboken as the first book sanctuary city in New Jersey. #freedomtoread #booksanctuary #hoboken #libraries #ala

The Hoboken Public Library unveiled its newly renovated third floor on Saturday in the first of a multi-phased renovation and restoration project of the 130-year-old main building. The $7 million project included a newly restored children’s room, an enlarged space for teenagers and the city's first public makerspace in partnership with nonprofit Hoboken Makerbar. The ceilings and windows were also renovated and an upgraded HVAC system was installed. “For over 130 years the Hoboken Public Library has grown and evolved to meet the changing needs of an urban population but with a firm foundation on our founded history of education and public service,” said Pu. “This splendid $7 million renovation and restoration and HVAC is a major step in support of our mission to enhance community engagement and to make a lasting, meaningful impact that reaches all corners of our Mile Square City."