The Johnson Public Library is excited to announce its partnership with Girl Scout Gold Award candidate Sylvia Brown in providing free 24/7 access to non-perishable food items via the Free Little Pantry. The pantry has been installed on the Library’s front plaza. This initiative was led by the Girl Scout herself, with the goal of helping ease food insecurity in the Hackensack community, and is aligned with the Library’s strategic plan to provide residents with the tools that t

JPL Seed Library The Seed Library is a place where budding gardeners can take seed packets home to plant in their gardens or planters. If there are any seeds that can be harvested at the end of the season, we invite you to bring them back and make them available for someone else next year. We are excited to start this new program and hope that our Seed Library can become an environmental hub for the community. In partnership with the Hackensack Environmental Justice Alliance.

Book donations can be dropped off at the Better World Books box on 15 E Camden Street, Hackensack, NJ.

The Johnson Public Library now offers access to the Bergen County Historical News Archive thanks to a generous grant awarded by the New Jersey State Library. Funding from the grant has allowed JPL to digitize Bergen County historical newspapers and create the Bergen County Historical News Archive Database—available for free for everyone.

Hackensack, NJ -- The Johnson Public Library is now offering a free “Books by Mail” service for Hackensack residents who are homebound or...