Happy holidays! The New Year is approaching and if you’re anything like me, you’re planning your reads for 2026 so you can meet your new year’s resolution of, ambiguously, “reading more.” Last year, I wrote a blog post about the Caldwell Public Library staff’s anticipated releases for 2025, and ended up reading several of the books my coworkers recommended on the way to blowing past my goal of 100 books read in 2025! This year, CPL staff recommendations are a little less boo

I need the familiar comfort of my favorite childhood Christmas films to settle into the season and banish the existential dread of another passing year.

Financial and food security is a constant concern as energy bills rise and pantries go bare.

Here at the library, we're celebrating with a display featuring books about card games, game design, children's games, and table-top RPG systems. You can also find a few printed free TTRPG packets to take home and play!

IFRW: Stories Under the Stars invites you and your family to cozy up with a twinkling tale.

The days are getting shorter, the leaves are changing, and the librarians have pulled their cardigans out of the closet—it’s officially fall! And what’s the best part of fall?

Best of all, every program is free and open to the public!

I know an album is a certified banger when I don't skip a single song.

Enjoy these lovely left-handed reads and celebrate the left-handers in your life.

We have circulating youth collections in Spanish, Russian, Arabic, French, Chinese, and Braille.

The Caldwell Public Library is excited to introduce our newest digital resource, hoopla!

Behold! Erica’s Crash Course: Dewey Decimal System reading list!

I wanted to get some information out about how our summer reading program works and answer a few common questions as well!

May is Mental Health Awareness month and if feels like something we should talk about more honestly.

I encourage my fellow adults not to overlook children’s books when looking for our next great reads. When we do, we’re really missing out! Children's literature validates young readers, takes grown-ups back to their own childhoods, and invites us to remember that we aren't so different from kids after all.

In the last year or so I've read some excellent books and discovered some new favorite authors. These are not those books.

Robert Frost taught us to go against the grain and take the road less traveled. Maya Angelou taught us to still rise when the world is cruel and beats us down. Mary Oliver reminds us to slow down, appreciate a summer day and to ponder what we want to do with our one wild and precious life.

A lot has changed since Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson published the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons way back in 1974. What hasn't changed

There's something magical about spring gardening...

I think I'm shredding this solo, but how can I tell when Mick Mars is playing over me?