Current Press Releases

TOMS RIVER – Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby, authors of We Refuse to be Enemies, will highlight their message of solidarity against intolerance in a live program, 6 PM Wednesday, May 25, at the Ocean County Library Toms River Branch. Subtitled How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship at a Time, the book is a manifesto that two Americans, a Muslim woman and a Jewish man, created in response to the perceived rise of bias and bigotry... Read More

TOMS RIVER – The Ocean County Library System is proud to join libraries throughout New Jersey in helping to increase free access to quality health care. NJHealthConnect@YourLibrary will be available through September 30, 2022. iPads that are pre-loaded with telemedicine apps and virtual meeting apps for job interviews are available for use at the Lakewood, Berkeley, and Little Egg Harbor branches. The ongoing pandemic has spotlighted... Read More

TOMS RIVER – The Courage to Remember exhibition developed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center will be on display and open to the public in Mancini Hall at the main branch of the Ocean County Library, Washington Street, Toms River, through May 1. The display of 40 towering panels offers mute testimony of the brutality visited upon millions of innocent people during the Nazi Holocaust covering the years from 1933 to 1945, the narratives and photos... Read More

TOMS RIVER – The Ocean County Library Tuckerton Branch is pleased to present a live program featuring noted New Jersey artist Carol Neugebauer, 7 PM Monday, May 16. Carol will sign copies of her newly-published debut book, Love Letters from the Lord. The Ocean County resident and Rowan University alumna wrote and illustrated the volume of inspirational passages, which are greatly influenced by a lifelong love of nature that also informs her... Read More