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!

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 ...

Spring Break – Hands On Drumming with Craig Norton, presented by Morris Public Library and Morris Beach and Recreation, Friday, April 19, 1 PM, in Morris Community Hall. 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 ...

The Popular Book Club will meet at the Morris Public Library on Tuesday, April 23, at 6:30 PM and discuss "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown. "The Boys in the Boat" is an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at ...

“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 ...

The Mystery Book Club will take place at the Morris Public Library on Wednesday, May 8, at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss "The Third Victim" by Phillip Margolin. A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon―tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one―two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead. The surviving victim identifies the house where ...

The Morris Public Library Online presents the Women & Money Roundtable Series, How to Make Sense of Today’s Financial Markets, on 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. May 15th @ 1PM: ...

Morris Public Library presents AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND: MYTHS AND LEGENDS, Thursday, May 16, 6:30 PM Enjoy an in-depth talk about the beautiful nation of New Zealand (known to the Maori as Aotearoa, meaning “land of the long white cloud”). Our very own library assistant, Miss Stephanie, will take you through some of the myths and misconceptions held about her homeland, while discussing some traditional Maori myths and other Kiwi legends and icons. There will be no shortage of picturesque ...

Virtual: Learn Chinese Calligraphy, in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Morris Public Library Online, Thursday, May 23, 6:30 PM The Morris Public Library, in honor of Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month, invites patrons for a virtual workshop on Chinese Calligraphy. Join Jojo Liu for an immersive experience and discover the beauty of strokes, characters, and cultural expression. In this class, Jojo delivers a modern twist to traditional Chinese calligraphy. The presentation strikes a delicate balance ...