Week Calendar

Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play. Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read. Siblings are welcome.

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Join us for a free cuppa to jump-start your week and visit with friends and community members.

Every Other Tuesday, 10:00 AM till 12:00 PM
This is an informal creative gathering of poets and would-be poets,
professional and amateur. All adult age groups are welcome. Steady

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strength.Rebecca Wood (and other instructors) will teach simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

Have fun as we read, play, sing and create together

Join Miss Julie for a one hour preschool yoga program.  We will have fun with yoga, stories, art, and more! 

Learn about The Great American Read on PBS and get a copy of the top 100 book list before it is revealed on national television.

Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play. Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read. Siblings are welcome.

Fun picture books and hands-on activities every week.  Come explore stories, rhymes, and play!

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Join us for stories, songs and playful activities every Wednesday at 11 a.m.Designed to encourage a lifelong love of books and support early literacy skills.
Stay to play and visit with friends afterward!

Schedule an appointment today:(740) 592.9454.
Questions? Contact the OhioHealth mobile mammography technicians at (740)
541.4522 or

Get to know Community Health Workers from the Athens City-County Health Department.

Gardeners gather to share tips, struggles, and triumphs of the soil.

Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

A book club for adolescents and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities where we enjoy books and friendship.

Do you have unfinishedsewing, quilting, crochet and knitting projects sitting in a drawer? Are you ready
for some new ideas and shortcuts? Do you

Join Jenny for stories, songs, and games.

Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play. Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.

Bring your cross-stitch, embroidery, crochet, knitting, lap quilting, lace making, spinning or any other handwork project and join us for friendship, project show-n-tell, technique discussions and skill sharing.

Drop in and play Yu-Gi-Oh!, 3DS, Pokemon, Magic, or more!Bring your cards if you have some; if you don’t, come play anyway!Now in the Young Adult Area.Saturdays, 1pm-4:30pm

Get to know Community Health Workers from the Athens City-County Health Department.

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strengthInstructor Linda Cochran teaches simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

Join documentary filmmaker Burr Beard as he introduces a new short film about a traumatic chapter in our local history. Produced in 2017 at Ohio University's School of Media Arts and Studies in the

Spend Monday afternoons playing this popular fantasy, tabletop role-playing
game. You do NOT have to be an experienced player -- everyone is

Get to know Community Health Workers from the Athens City-County Health Department.

Join us in the teen area!Grades 7-12

Come make with us! Use our sewing machines, learn how to crochet, use our button maker, build with cardboard or Legos and so much more!

Regular monthly meeting of ACPL's Board of Trustees. Open to the public with time set aside at each meeting for public comment. 

Every Tuesday in the small meeting room.All are welcome!

Last hurrah until fall!We'll be playing board games, spoons and cards too!Snacks (and possibly pizza) provided.

Please join the Nelsonville Public Library and ShadeTree Bike Works for two days of bike repairs and learning.  Not only will you be able to get help with needed bike repairs you will learn how to do the repairs yourself.May 15th and 16th

Learn how creatures in the natural world use their tongues for survival. Share tongue twisters and test your taste buds.

Join the librarians and friends from CFI to kick start our planting season! Learn about gardening in South East Ohio and help us plant our first plants of the season in the library's raised garden beds.

Join Jenny at the Chauncey library every other Wednesday for a mystery craft night!  Each time you will be provided with all the guidance and materials needed to enjoy making that night's mystery craft.

Book and dog lovers are invited to take turns reading aloud while snuggling with a canine reading buddy.Bring a book of your own, read one from our shelves, or just spend time with Henry and Lola from Calm Companions.

Please join the Nelsonville Public Library and ShadeTree Bike Works for two days of bike repairs and learning.  Not only will you be able to get help with needed bike repairs you will learn how to do the repairs yourself.May 15th and 16th

Celebrate spring and replant a petunia!Join us on the front porch of the library, anytime between 4 and 5:30 pm. Petunias, pots and soil provided!

Sign up to participate in designing your own Tshirt with fabric markers and stencils. All materials provided for school aged children.  Call  740-797-4579 or come in to The Plains Library to register.

Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.
Grades K-3.  Siblings welcome.
Parents/caregivers are expected to stay during playgroup sessions.Image
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Meet each of the artists showing this month, and find out one-on-one the inspirations for their works and how they created them.  Pleasant
refreshments, savory and sweet, will be served in the Library Lobby,

Join us to learn about the mine disaster at Millfield in 1930.  We will be watching the short film "Millfield Mine Disaster 1930", which is 20 minutes in length, and then a Q&A with the filmmaker, Burr Beard

Relax and stretch and be well. Open to all beginners, as well as those with more yoga experience.Join rotating instructors Annie Burnett, Jennifer Collins, Bill Fanning, and Erin Pfahler for this weekly program.All library programs are fr

What is this movie about?
Desperate and at a crossroads, James (Joel Smallbone) agrees to drive a
box truck on a shady, one-time trip cross country for cash – no

The Prevent T2 program is a year-long lifestyle change program for individuals that have pre-diabetes,  a history of gestational diabetes, or who are at risk for Type 2 diabetes as determined by the score on the Pre-Diabetes Risk Screen.&

Join us to learn about the mine disaster at Millfield in 1930.  We will be watching the short film "Millfield Mine Disaster 1930," which is 20 minutes in length, and then a Q&A with the filmmaker, Burr Beard.

One of the most remarkable localbiographies stars the paired lives of Edward Berry and his wife
Mattie, who enriched Athens through innovative, entrepreneurial
activities spanning the late 19th century and well into the 20th.