Princeton Public Library

Knitting in public and social media

Posted On: Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 8:00am

Posted By: JPainter

Posted In: community, knit in public, knitting, Ravelry, social media, stitching

Princeton area knitters recently celebrated Worldwide Knit in Public Day without controversy. Witness our photos on Flickr. It's a safe bet that we'll have Ravelympians in the Community Room for the Olympic viewing sessions in July and August. Who says knitters are quiet, mousy souls? Not the U.S. Olympic Committee, apparently.

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KIP with us

Posted On: Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 8:00am

Posted By: JPainter

Posted In: community, knit in public, knitting, stitching

I am a serious fan of Worldwide Knit in Public Day. Better living through stitching together? We have a day for that. Every June, the Princeton Public Library hosts a KIP (Knit in Public) event. This year, we knit (and crochet) on Saturday, June 9, between 11:00 and 3:00. Watch and listen carefully. You’ll find knitters and yarn folk from our community clicking our needles, chatting, learning, and sharing our crafts out on the Hinds Plaza.

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In our neighborhood

Posted On: Monday, May 21, 2012 - 8:00am

Posted By: JPainter

Posted In: books, movies, music, Robeson, staff picks

The corner of Witherspoon and Wiggins streets in Princeton is home to the Princeton Public Library and the Arts Council of Princeton. If you are in the neighborhood, you’ll notice a statue of Paul Robeson on the sidewalk, marking the spot where Wiggins Street becomes Paul Robeson Place. Walk up Witherspoon, past the Arts Council’s Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, and the first house you see is Robeson’s birthplace.

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Twitter fan

Posted On: Monday, April 30, 2012 - 7:50am

Posted By: JPainter

Posted In: catalog, social networking, technology, twitter

Have you noticed that ticker feed of viewer comments on the bottom of the screen when you watch television news? That’s the Twitter Effect – immediate crowdsourced information from a variety of perspectives. When broadcasters ask viewers to submit pictures and videos of local breaking news we all benefit not only from the incredible immediacy, but from the larger, holistic perspective that is created by the aggregate of thousands of individual “tweets.”

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Get fit, have fun

Posted On: Monday, April 9, 2012 - 8:00am

Posted By: JPainter

Posted In: DVD collection, exercise, fitness, T'ai Chi, workouts, yoga

Spring has sprung. The neighborhood is blooming. We’re coming out of our hibernation and getting out and about more. Hooray! Pick up some fun exercise DVDs and try a new fitness routine. Whether it’s yoga, Zumba®, or T’ai Chi, we have some really good samplers in our library DVD collection.

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PrincetonPL's new catalog

Posted On: Monday, March 19, 2012 - 9:00am

Posted By: JPainter

Posted In: BiblioCommons, catalog

Seven words come to mind when I think of the new PrincetonPL online catalog. “It’s personal,” first. Then the action words begin to pop into my mind, since doing is at the heart of what you’ll come to the new website and catalog for: Discover, Comment, Rate, Create, Connect. The PrincetonPL Web team first met up with our new BiblioCommons online catalog in 2010. We liked the easy to use, powerful search features and the great design.

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