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.

Bring poetry you've written and receive helpful and encouraging comments from fellow poets.

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Join us for a spot of tea as we enjoy a bit of British television or film together. Cheers!

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.

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

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!

Celebrate spring with us!Join us on the front porch of the library anytime between 10:30am and 12:30pm. Petunias, pots and soil provided.

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.

Enjoy free play and social hour with your baby. Resources may include crafts, sensory play and songs.

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 a circle of gardeners who meet to discuss the triumphs and tackle the problems of gardening.

JoinPassion Works and Creative Foundations artists for a weekly story
time and an end-of-the-month art project.May
10th, May 17th, and May 24th: Themed storytimes presented by Passion

Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

Patrick from The OSU Extension Office will help us create affordable and healthy meals we will then get to sample. Yum!

COSI-Center of Science and IndustryGadgets-To-GoSometimes science can be wild! Put teamwork to the test and try out the engineering process to get hands-on with motion, mechanics, robotics, and more!

A staff member from OhioMeansJobs-Athens County will be available at the library to assist with job seeking, unemployment benefits, ASPIRE (GED classes), and other services provided by the agency.  Both general information and assistance

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

A staff member from OhioMeansJobs-Athens County will be available at the library to assist with job seeking, unemployment benefits, ASPIRE (GED classes), and other services provided by the agency.  Both general information and assistance

Enjoy needlework? Join us and bring your knitting, embroidery, crochet, or hand sewing.

A staff member from OhioMeansJobs-Athens County will be available at the library to assist with job seeking, unemployment benefits, ASPIRE (GED classes), and other services provided by the agency.  Both general information and assistance

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

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

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!3rd Thursdays at 2pm

COSI-Center of Science and IndustryGadgets-To-GoSometimes science can be wild! Put teamwork to the test and try out the engineering process to get hands-on with motion, mechanics, robotics, and more!

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

Mark Schubert will present the history of baseball. A Little Cities of Black Diamonds presentation.

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

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

Dust your boots off and meet at the Glouster Public Library for a hike on Trimble High School's Muddy Boot Trail.

All invited, whether you are just learning Spanish or wishing to preserve your command of Spanish. Practice and improve your Spanish speaking skills and grammatical correctness.

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

Learn to use a sewing machine to make your own book bag, then make it unique with your own design. 

Get creative making upcycled flowers from T-shirt yarn (tarn), buttons and felt as we collaborate with the Athens Makerspace. 

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.

 Create and share your stories in a welcoming place.  This workshop's focus is fiction (Fan Fiction also welcome)  It is peer-led and flexible to all your needs.  All types of stories and lengths are encour

Learn to use a sewing machine to make a book bag. Make it unique by adding your own design.

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. 

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.
Parents/caregivers are expected to stay during playgroup sessions.Image source:

Meet the artists showing their work this month, refreshments courtesy of the Friends of the Athens Public Library!

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!

What are sound ways to manage our personal finances? How do we save for lean times or for a secure
retirement? This
program outlines an effective financial plan for both opportunities and
challenges. Our