Weather conditions

Due to inclement weather, the Lane Libraries will be closed at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 13. 

All programs for Saturday, December 13 have been cancelled.

Upcoming Events

This event is in the "Lane Community Technology Center" group

Adopt a 3D Printed “Gerblin!”

11:00am–1:00pm
Lane Community Technology Center
Cancelled
Registration Required
Library Branch: Lane Community Technology Center
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Educational, Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

Ages 8 - 11. These little 3D printed critters are looking for a splash of color and a new home! Mix and match parts, paint them, pose them and make a little house for them.

This event is in the "Oxford Lane Library" group

Santa’s Workshop

12:00pm–2:00pm
Oxford Lane Library
Cancelled
Library Branch: Oxford Lane Library
Room: Oxford Helen Weinberger Activity Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Ages 12 - 18. Create unique and heartfelt gifts for family and friends. All supplies will be provided. Holiday music and treats will keep the spirit merry. Stop in!

This event is in the "Hamilton Lane Library" group

Wrap and Yap

2:00pm–4:00pm
Hamilton Lane Library
Cancelled
Library Branch: Hamilton Lane Library
Room: Hamilton Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

We’ll provide scissors, bows, tape, tables and a place to spread out so you can wrap your gifts while enjoying cider and chatting with friends!

This event is in the "Fairfield Lane Library" group

Adulting 101

3:00pm–5:00pm
Fairfield Lane Library
Cancelled
Registration Required
Library Branch: Fairfield Lane Library
Room: Fairfield Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Educational
Registration Required
Event Details:

Ages 15 - 25. Anxious about being an adult and having to do adult things? Worry no more! Stop by our monthly workshops to learn an essential skill. Light refreshments will be provided. 

This event is in the "Fairfield Lane Library" group

Holiday Movie Marathon

1:00pm–4:00pm
Fairfield Lane Library
Library Branch: Fairfield Lane Library
Room: Fairfield Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Teens, Adults, Families, Everyone
Program Type: Entertainment & Games
Event Details:

All ages. Get in the holiday spirit with some classic holiday films, popcorn and hot cocoa!

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Frosty the Snowman

The Year Without a Santa Claus

This event is in the "Oxford Lane Library" group

Critical Missfits: D&D Adventures

1:30pm–4:30pm
Oxford Lane Library
Registration Required
Library Branch: Oxford Lane Library
Room: Oxford Havighurst Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Entertainment & Games
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join this homebrewed campaign! Attendees may either choose a pre-made character available on site or bring their own level 5 character built with official rules only. You can choose to attend all three or just a single adventure.

New, Coming Soon & Bestsellers

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Placeless

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America...

Millions of people are affected by homelessness, but media pundits and politicians see homelessness as a social work problem, or a matter of personal pathology, or some peculiar subspecies of urban poverty.

Informed by the author’s own front-line experiences from more than two decades working as an advocate for homeless people in New York City and his work with housing activists across the country. Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age presents an alternative and innovative, wide-angle view of homelessness and displacement in New York and elsewhere.

A tour of the geography of homelessness in New York City, where some 100,000 people a night sleep in the city’s shelter system, Markee visits certain city landmarks where homeless New Yorkers struggle to survive:

  • armories once built to quarter militias who put down worker uprisings
  • a train tunnel underneath Riverside Park
  • a grim intake center where infants, children, and families were forced to sleep on office floors
  • a former psychiatric wing of Bellevue Hospital now sheltering hundreds of homeless men each night
  • a Manhattan park surrounded by luxury condos where the police routinely harassed homeless street-dwellers


Blending historical analysis, urban theory, and the latest policy research, Markee considers homelessness in America as a tragic yet inevitable consequence of economic shifts inaugurated in the Reagan era, worsening inequality and housing affordability, systemic racism, and neoliberal government policies.

At a moment where tabloids and politicians use homelessness as an excuse to whip up fear, Placeless is a powerful and moving account of a social problem whose solution is entirely possible.

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The Problem with Plastic

"Plastic pollution has reached crisis proportions, and false solutions abound. But as The Problem with Plastic shows, there are real solutions out there. And, fortunately, there are people like Judith Enck working to enact them." --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction

A powerful investigation into plastic's impact on human health and the environment, and how we can fight back

Plastic is everywhere--wrapped around our food, stitched into our clothes, even coursing through our veins. Once a marvel of modern science, plastic has become so inextricably woven into our lives that imagining a world without it can seem impossible. Over the last seventy-five years, plastic has cradled our planet in a synthetic embrace.

The Problem with Plastic critically examines the paradox of this material, first celebrated for its innovations and now recognized for its devastating environmental and public health impacts. With clarity and urgency, the book reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, a warming planet, and overwhelming waste, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities who bear the brunt of petrochemical pollution.

Revealing the alarming extent of microplastics infiltrating both the natural world and the human body, this compelling narrative challenges the illusion that recycling alone will save us. It unpacks the mechanisms of environmental racism and the deceptive greenwashing strategies used by the plastics industry to maintain the status quo.

More than a critique, The Problem with Plastic emphasizes the urgent need for action against plastic's toxic legacy. It higlights powerful stories of frontline resistance in places like Louisiana, Texas, and Appalachia, and equips readers with practical tools--including a "Household Waste Audit" to track and reduce plastic consumption, as well as model policy guides for driving legislative change.

Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately empowering, The Problem with Plastic reminds us: plastic is a problem--but together, we can be the solution.

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Smartphone Nation

“A candid, rigorous, and witty read on how to stop digital devices from wreaking havoc on our lives. As a leading expert on social media and internet policy, Kaitlyn Regehr illuminates what we can do—individually and collectively—to put our smartphones in their place.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking

A transformative guide to outsmarting your screen and establishing healthier tech habits that will help you and your family live better—for anyone who read The Anxious Generation and wants to know what to do next.

Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr—a celebrated researcher and professor of digital humanities—explains how we can hold on to the myriad benefits of technology while evading their hidden dangers. We are all using (and parenting around) a technology we didn’t grow up with; it makes sense that we feel overwhelmed. In Smartphone Nation, Regehr explains how these technologies work, giving you the power to change the way you (and your family) use your devices. Regehr proposes a new, food pyramid–like framework for understanding and improving our digital consumption. Some tech, like nutrient-dense food, is good for us; it is vital in our lives. But so much of what we consume via algorithms is like candy that rots our teeth: it’s disastrous for our wellbeing. Regehr’s groundbreaking research reveals how we can reclaim control and maintain a healthy digital diet.

Essential reading anyone who knows there’s more to life than staring at a screen—or who wants to raise children who believe that, too—Smartphone Nation shows how to:

• Navigate the attention economy, which prioritizes engagement at all costs
• Improve your digital nutrition for better mental health
• Spring clean your viewing experience
• Game the algorithm
• Catch misinformation
• Parent your children in the digital age

Thoughtful, clearsighted, and empowering, Smartphone Nation is essential reading for anyone who owns a phone.

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Prowl

Prowl, the second book in USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble's Sanctuary series (following Ambush), delivers exactly what her fans want: the ideal blend of suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat with just the right amount of romance. Perfect for fans of Laura Dave, Allison Brennan, and Dani Pettrey.

When a worker at the Sanctuary is discovered dead in the tiger enclosure, authorities assume the big cat killed her. But when the autopsy shows she was killed by a lethal dose of anesthetic delivered by a tranquilizer gun, suspicion falls on Blake Lawson, co-owner of the Sanctuary. Blake has his hands full trying to clear his name as well as get the Sanctuary finances back in the black. When a soil test turns up traces of rare earth, he's even more puzzled. Is someone trying to run them out of business to get to whatever is under the ground?

Meanwhile, wildlife veterinarian Paradise Alden is determined to find the brother she only recently learned even existed. When the results of the DNA test she ran mysteriously disappear from her portal before she can read them, she realizes someone must not want her to know the truth. A break-in at her new apartment is alarming, but she tries to pass it off as someone trying to scare her away. She refuses to turn tail and run when she is desperate for answers.

For Blake, the only solid ground is his relationship with Paradise, and he longs to propose--but how can they even think about starting a life together with so many forces working against them?

Colleen Coble's Prowl combines gripping suspense with closed-door romance and includes intriguing mysteries from both the past and present, sabotage and danger, second-chance romance, found family, and themes of overcoming pain and how the past doesn't have to define you.

Also in this series: Ambush (book 1, available now) and Conspiracy (book 3, available July 2026).