Library Hours Update

Starting Monday, November 4, Hartford Public Library (HPL) hours across the city will change.

Albany Library

Monday - Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, closed

Barbour Library

Monday - Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday closed

Camp Field Library

Monday - Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday closed

Dwight Library

Monday - Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday closed

Park Street Library @ the Lyric

Monday - Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Ropkins Library

Monday - Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, closed

Starting Thursday, November 21

Downtown Library

Monday - Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, closed

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, November 20, at 11:00 a.m., when we will cut the ribbon and officially open the Downtown Library's Main Street doors.

See you soon at 500 Main Street!

HPL's Weekly Book Recommendations

Hauntingly Good Reads

Incidents Around the House

Josh Malerman

"A disturbing bedtime story told by a broken child, this book IS the monster that lives inside your closet.”

—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author

“Deeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet ruthlessly efficient . . . Simply put—and I do not say this lightly—Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.”

—Esquire, “Best Horror Books of 2024”

Find it HERE in our catalog

Mothtown

Caroline Hardaker

"As thought-provoking as it is chilling."

– Publishers Weekly

" . . . Caroline Hardaker writes with a poet's sensibility, conjuring a world both vividly familiar and alienating, mapping the landscapes around us and the struggles of the human soul with empathy and beautiful prose. Strange and moving in the best way, this story will stay with me for a long time."

—Sophie Keetch, author of Morgan Is My Name

Find it HERE in our catalog

Let's Go Beyond Words

The last day to register is today!

Featuring Safiya Sinclair, author of How to Say Babylon. Sinclair will be interviewed onstage by HPL Ambassador Duby McDowell.

Thursday, Nov. 7 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Hartford Marriott Downtown

200 Columbus Boulevard

Registration is required. Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 29.

To RSVP, visit here.

Beyond Words, HPL's annual signature fundraising event.

Your Vote Matters!

Get out and vote on November 5

Or vote early during the Early Voting Period,

Oct. 21 - Nov. 3, 2024, at City Hall.

Come by any library location and tell us what election issues matter to you most to receive a limited edition holographic sticker!

Thank you for participating in our polls!

Last Week's Poll: Will we see you at our Downtown opening on Wednesday, November 20 at 11:00 a.m.?

Results:

Yes - 73.1%

No - 26.9%

Happy Halloween

Check out our programming calendar below for some frightfully fun Halloween activities in our library locations.

A Place Like No Other

HPL offers engaging, educational, and fun programming for all ages.

Check out our full programming calendar HERE

Check out our Family Programming calendar!

Check out our Adult Programming calendar!

Check out our Youth & Teen Programming calendar!

"Good night, Daddo!

Good night, Mommy!

Mommy and Daddo leave my room.

I pull the covers up to my chin.

Other Mommy comes out of the closet.

Hi, I say.

I’m so excited to see you again."

―Josh Malerman, Incidents Around the House

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