Week Calendar

An evening of board game fun! Scrabble, boggle, Taboo, Scattergories, and more. We'll get started on this date, sign up those interested, survey

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.

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 Thursday at 10:30 a.m.Designed to encourage a lifelong love of books and support early literacy skills.
Stay to play and visit with friends afterward!

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!

Join friends as we read, play, sing, and create together!

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!

Join us for stories, play, and fun-filled activities!  Free and open to the public.

Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

Drop in anytime between 11 and 1 for an afternoon of crafts and snacks! 

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness MonthJoin the Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program (SAOP) for snacks, games, and to learn

Join us for a special storytime with the group Standing up for Racial Justice (SURJ).

A book club for the entire community focused on including adults with developmental disabilities. We enjoy reading together and discussing every week.

Do you have unfinishedsewing, quilting, crochet and knitting projects sitting in a drawer? Are you ready
for some new ideas and shortcuts? Meet some new friends and come join us every

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

Enjoy hot chocolate with a casual drawing class to learn the basics, taught by an Athens librarian.  Leave with a creation of your very own.Open to all skill levels.  Limited to 10 spots.  Register by phone or in person.

A monthly community gathering to share stories of life as it used to be.Bring your childhood, school, family or other memories. We may decide on a theme or just reminisce.
All welcome!
4th Fridays at 2pm.

While the monstrosities of Jurassic Park disappeared 66 million years ago, we only have to look out the window to find living dinosaurs today in the form of birds.

LGBTQ+ Book Club Meeting to discuss the novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughSnacks and drinks will be provided Books are available at the front desk at the Athens Public Library

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness MonthJoin the Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program (SAOP) for snacks, games, and to learn

Want to help make The Plains Library a great place for teens? Need service hours? Have a great idea for a teen event? If you can answer “yes!” to any of these questions, come to a Teen

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness MonthJoin the Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program (SAOP) for snacks, games, and to learn

Please join us for an after school snack and some great stories!Playful activities too! 

Like books and chocolate?  We'll discuss your favorite reads while eating treats and sipping hot chocolate!Free and open to the public.Grades 7-12

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

Build with Legos. Come back and add to your structure during this 3 week program. The final Lego creations will be displayed at the library in March.

Read Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine by yourself, with a friend or caregiver.

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, Lola and Winston from Calm Companions.

After school programming by Athens Area Mediation Services. A different fun activity every month with the goal of teaching people how to better communicate with each other. 

Create, develop and share your stories in a welcoming place. This workshop's focus is fiction; open and flexible to your needs. All types
of stories and lengths encouraged! Let's talk books! Let's write! Let's

Join Renaissance Engineering Students from Ohio University for an interactive STE(A)M workshop!

Join us every Monday to play something from our large collection of games. From classics like Sorry and Uno to new favorites like Exploding Kittens and Trash Pandas! We have games for all ages!

Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.
Grades 1-4.  Siblings welcome.
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This week:  Sweet potato, black bean and corn stew (typically made with peanuts)Community Food Initiatives will feature simple, affordable ingredients and highlight seasonal, regionally grown produce.  Cook together, share a meal

A new fun activity every week with the goal of becoming better communicators. 

This knitting circle is free and open to all adults and is a great way to learn from one another.  It also includes crochet.  Enjoy this

This event is planned and hosted by a community group using the library's free meeting spaces. Are you helping to host an event at one of our locations? Let us know!

Charles W.

A viewing of the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder and based off the children's novel by Roald Dahl.Also featuring:Homemade candy (made during Thrive Thursday on 2/21 at 4pmThemed craftsMore book-to-movie titles for your browsing pleasu