Welcome to the Morris Public Library

The Friends Need YOU! Let’s be FRIENDS! The Morris Public Library needs YOU! We may be small but we are a very active Library with many resources and programs. Our creative staff keeps very busy making your visits here enjoyable and productive. The Friends of the Morris Public Library is a group of volunteers that help, support and promote the Library as needed and requested. Our Library usage and activities have grown dramatically over the past few years, and we ...

The Morris Public Library will offer Story and Music Time for participants ages 9 mo. - 5 years old every Tuesday at 10 am. Please call to register: 860-567-7440. Sing songs, read a story, pick up a craft!

Morris author and researcher Jan Henson Dow returns to the Morris Public Library with her new presentation “Taking a Shamanic Journey,” Thursday, March 21, 6:30 PM. Shamanism has been practiced for thousands of years on every continent except Antarctica. Shamanic journeying can be used by anyone today in order to get answers to personal questions, to learn different healing methods, to help others in the community and to work on world and global issues. Jan is an author, researcher and ...

The Popular Book Club will meet at the Morris Public Library on Tuesday, March 26, 6:30 PM and discuss "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice ...

Visit the Morris Public Library during the month of April as we participate in the Connecticut Library Association Passport to Connecticut Libraries Program. Patrons can obtain their Library Passport here at the Morris Library and begin their journey to multiple participating CT Libraries. Each Library will stamp their visitors’ passports and give each visitor a small gift! There will be winners in two categories, and four $200 gift cards, one for adults and one for children in each category. Category ...

The Morris Public Library Online presents the Women & Money Roundtable Series, How to Make Sense of Today’s Financial Markets, on April 10, May 15, June 12, at 1 PM, with Julia Strayer and Liz Maccarone, of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. The Women & Money Roundtable Series is a way to empower and educate women of any age on financial matters that affect their lives. Morris patrons are invited to participate in the roundtables on a monthly basis. April 10th ...

The Mystery Book Club will meet at the Morris Public Library on Wednesday, April 10, at 6:30 PM, and discuss "The Templar Legacy" by Steve Berry. The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what ...

Spring Break – Hands On Drumming with Craig Norton, Morris Public Library, Friday, April 19, 1 PM Hands on Drumming will take you on a musical journey, playing traditional songs from around the globe, creating our own rhythms, taking turns leading and experiencing improvisation, creative movement and dance. Participants will practice many positive life skills including respect, leadership, teamwork, cooperation, listening and communication as well as experience musical and cultural awareness. Everyone gets a drum to play. Recommended for ages ...

“Pearls from Carol” Book Talk & Saxophone Sing-a-long, with Albert Ruggiero, Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 PM Join Albert Ruggiero for his humorous book talk “Pearls from Carol” at the Morris Public Library, on Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 PM. The speaker will share the funny yet thought-provoking essays and poems from his late wife Carol. The book is a compilation of 20 years’ writings devotedly collected by the local writers’ group and published by her husband. Learn about Carol’s life and ...

The Young Adult and Fantasy Book Club will meet at the Morris Public Library on Friday, April 26, 6:30 PM to discuss "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas. When 19-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin - one of the lethal, immortal ...