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Job Search Tips and Tricks

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Commack Building
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Location: Commack Building
Room: Commack Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 18
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Need help with your job search? Do you ever wonder what hiring managers want? Join our career coach, Richard Gluck, for a lively discussion about ways to improve your job search results. ...

New Beginnings for 50 Plus

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Nesconset Building
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Location: Nesconset Building
Room: Nesconset Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 25
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If you are a divorced or widowed single, aged 50 plus who would like a new beginning, come and be inspired to make new friends and learn new skills towards reinventing yourself. Social worker and life coach Marla Matthews will lead the discussion. ...

Film and Discussion - Snowbound - Animals of Winter

6:30pm - 8:30pm
Smithtown Building
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Location: Smithtown Building
Room: Smithtown Building Community Room A
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures, Movies
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Seats Remaining: 33
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Join Joyann Cirigliano of the Four Harbors Audubon Society for a viewing and discussion of Snowbound: Animals of Winter. See some of the world's most iconic snow animals, from the penguins of Antarctica to the bison of Yellowstone and the Arctic...

Reducing Stress Through Meditation this Holiday Season

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Nesconset Building
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Location: Nesconset Building
Room: Nesconset Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 28
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Join John Bednarik as he discusses the extraordinary effect of meditation on reducing stress-related responses, improving concentration, and enhancing clarity of thought and mental equilibrium. He will also present a simple, time-tested, ancient, and...

Color in Art Part II

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Commack Building
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Location: Commack Building
Room: Commack Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 37
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Join Chris Vivas as he delves further beyond the rainbow, exploring the history of colors, psychological use in art and color as symbolism.  We will discuss more artworks and the use of color in this continuing and exciting lecture!  ...

The Making of A Christmas Story

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Smithtown Building
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Location: Smithtown Building
Room: Smithtown Building Community Room B
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 33
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"You'll shoot your eye out." Those were the words 9-year-old Ralphie heard from his mother, his teacher, and even Santa when he asked for a Red Ryder air rifle for Christmas. Join Sal St. George for the back story of the making of the ...

Christmas Eve

All Day
All Buildings
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Branches:
Commack Building, Kings Park Building, Nesconset Building, Smithtown Building, Offsite, Virtual

Christmas Day

All Day
All Buildings
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Commack Building, Kings Park Building, Nesconset Building, Smithtown Building, Offsite, Virtual

Marie Curie's Life & Work

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Kings Park Building
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Location: Kings Park Building
Room: Kings Park Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 29
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A scientist and early pioneer of radioactivity, Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person and only woman to win the Nobel twice. Curie is also still the only person awarded a Nobel Prize in two different sciences: Phy...

Smart DriverTEK

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Commack Building
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Location: Commack Building
Room: Commack Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 39
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Join a representative from AARP to learn how to utilize the latest high-tech safety features in your current car or future car, including blind spot warning, forward collision warning, lane departure and more. ...

New Year's Eve

All Day
All Buildings
Closing
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Commack Building, Kings Park Building, Nesconset Building, Smithtown Building, Offsite, Virtual

HPV and Cervical Cancer - Know the Facts

7:00pm - 7:45pm
Nesconset Building
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Location: Nesconset Building
Room: Nesconset Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health, Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 35
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January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Join Health Educators from Stony Brook Cancer Center to learn about the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), and the cancers it causes. HPV infection can cause 6 different cancers. We will be discussing t...

Genealogy 101

7:00pm - 8:15pm
Kings Park Building
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Location: Kings Park Building
Room: Kings Park Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:
Learn how to get started in your genealogical research. April Earle will share with us her best tips for staying organized and searching databases like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. We will look at the significance of census records, the importa...

Film and Discussion - Wings of Life

6:30pm - 8:30pm
Smithtown Building
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Registration
Location: Smithtown Building
Room: Smithtown Building Community Room B
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures, Movies
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Seats Remaining: 35
Event Details:
Join Joyann Cirigliano of the Four Harbors Audubon Society for a viewing and discussion of Wings of Life an intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and the flowers that need them.  ...

One-On-One Genealogy Research

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Commack Building
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Location: Commack Building
Room: Commack Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:
Having trouble with your family tree? Register for a one-hour session with genealogist April Earle for individual assistance in your genealogy research. This program will occur monthly; patrons may register for one session every six months. ...

One-On-One Genealogy Research

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Commack Building
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Location: Commack Building
Room: Commack Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:
Having trouble with your family tree? Register for a one-hour session with genealogist April Earle for individual assistance in your genealogy research. This program will occur monthly; patrons may register for one session every six months. ...

One-On-One Genealogy Research

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Commack Building
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Location: Commack Building
Room: Commack Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
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Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:
Having trouble with your family tree? Register for a one-hour session with genealogist April Earle for individual assistance in your genealogy research. This program will occur monthly; patrons may register for one session every six months. ...

The Power Grid - Storms, Challenges, and the Future

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Smithtown Building
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Location: Smithtown Building
Room: Smithtown Building Community Room A
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:
Award-winning columnist and adjunct professor Richard Murdocco returns to the Library to discuss the power grid. Find out why you lose power when the wind blows, how we can rebuild and what challenges Long Island faces in the years ahead. ...

Forever Young - A Science-based Way to Aging Well

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Nesconset Building
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Location: Nesconset Building
Room: Nesconset Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health, Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:
Aging is a privilege, not a life sentence. It is up to us to do the daily things necessary to make sure our bodies are a temple and not a prison.  Come learn the scientific ways on how to live strong and healthy and the best way to age well with...

Inside the CIA

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Kings Park Building
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Location: Kings Park Building
Room: Kings Park Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:
Take a look at what goes on inside one of our nation’s most secret organizations with former CIA agent and Stony Brook University professor emeritus Lester Paldy. It’s not like the movies. ...

Electrifying Your Home

10:00am - 11:00am
Commack Building
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Location: Commack Building
Room: Commack Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:
Join us for a presentation and discussion on electrification;  what it is and how to achieve it in your home.  Rewiring America volunteer Jim Bernabeo will share how households such as yours can electrify and take advantage of the significa...

Defensive Driving

5:30pm - 8:30pm
Kings Park Building
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Location: Kings Park Building
Room: Kings Park Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 24
Event Details:
Telephone, online and in person registration begins two months prior to program date. Open to all adult drivers regardless of age. Please bring your license to class. Must have a library card to register; one registration per library card.  Fee:...

The Civil Rights Movement on Long Island

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Smithtown Building
Registration
Location: Smithtown Building
Room: Smithtown Building Community Room A
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:
Join Christopher Verga as he examines Long Island as a battleground for the Civil Rights Movement. Since the early colonization of the English settlers in the 17th century, the shadow of slavery has bequeathed a racial caste system that has directly ...

Tutankhamun - Still an Enduring Power

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Nesconset Building
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Location: Nesconset Building
Room: Nesconset Building Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:
One hundred years ago, British archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed a legend, and today we are still piecing together new revelations.   Who was this boy king, why is he so famous, and what are the mysteries and superstitions surrounding him? T...