January Programs at the Summit Library

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January programs at the Summit Library
“Your Job Search – A Fresh Start”.
Beginning Tuesday, January 10 at 7 PM, the Summit Free Public Library will host a weekly series of informal workshops is for you if you currently have a job, or are under-employed or are ‘between positions.’ While its focus is on the professional level job-seeker with a minimum of five years’ work experience, it is open to everyone. Join us for one or all four of these two-hour sessions.  In addition to the topics listed below, each session will provide ample time for discussion, networking, and interview role-play.
January 10    Session 1: The rules of the search
January 17    Session 2: Written communications
January 24    Session 3: ‘Tell me about yourself’ – Interviews and how to ace them
January 31    ​Session 4: ‘You want what???’ Navigating salary negotiations
Course leader Neil Berger has more than thirty years’ Human Resources experience in a variety of industries.
This free program is funded by the Friends of the Summit Free Public Library.
To register or for additional information, stop by the Reference Desk or call 908-273-035, ext. 3.
Mondays at the Movies showings at 12:30 PM and 6:30 PM
Monday, January 9:
Cultures collide when an American businessman (Tom Hanks) is sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. Baffled by local customs and stymied by an opaque bureaucracy, he eventually finds his footing with the help of a wise-cracking taxi driver (Alexander Black) and a beautiful Saudi doctor (Sarita Choudhury). Rated R. 90 minutes.
Monday, January 23:
A wealthy New York heiress (Meryl Streep) attempts to become an opera singer despite her horrible singing voice. Hugh Grant and Rebecca Ferguson co-star in this biopic directed by Stephen Frears. Rated PG-13. 110 minutes. ​ Monday, January 30 The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. Rated R. 129 minutes.​
Film: Neither Heaven Nor Earth, Friday, January 13, 12:30 PM:
French Army Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad are assigned to monitor a remote valley of Wakhan, Afghanistan on the border of Pakistan. Negotiating control of the region between local shepherds and possible Taliban sympathizers grows more and more tenuous for them as men from all sides start mysteriously disappearing. Unable to explain this eerie phenomenon, the soldiers find themselves embroiled in an existential nightmare, desperate for their own safety. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. 104 minutes..
Author Talk: Jeanne D’Haem
Wednesday, January 18, 2017,  7:30 pm:
Jeanne D’Haem will discuss her book, Inclusion: The Dream and the Reality in Special Education. Written after thirty years of experience, it chronicles inspiring, insightful and even hilarious efforts to include students with disabilities in public schools. Can a faith healer cure autism? Why would a child eat a cigarette? What can the police do for a child who sucked his lips inside a soda can? Inclusion reveals how these and other problems have been addressed by caring teachers. If you have ever wondered what happens behind closed doors in special education, this is the book for you Dr. Jeanne D’Haem is associate professor of Special Education at William Paterson University in New Jersey. She was a special education teacher and a director of special services for over thirty years.
Brown Bag Book Group: Friday, January 20,  12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunchtime book group for seniors. Bring a bag lunch; beverages are provided. The group will be discussing “In the Language of Miracles” by Rajia Hassib, a mesmerizing debut novel of an Egyptian American family in a New Jersey suburb and the wrenching tragedy that tears their lives apart​.
New Jersey and the Bill of Rights, Sunday, January 22, 2017, 2:00 pm
Robert F. Williams will speak on “New Jersey and the Bill of Rights,” exploring the history of rights granted by the state and federal constitutions. Professor Williams teaches state constitutional law and is the associate Director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers. He is the author of dozens of articles and numerous books on state constitutional law.