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.

Open to all adults.  Free program.  Bring your prose writing.

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.

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

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!

Laura Newman from Diley Hill Animal Emergency Center presents first aid basics to help you care for dogs and cats. Informational handouts will be available, along with a limited number of first aid kits.Free and open to the public.

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!

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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.

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

Please join the Library in welcoming Diley Hill Animal Emergency for a free pet first aid class.  Come ready to participate in different scenarios and learn about pet first aid.Free and open to the public.

Patrick, from The OSU Extension Office, will help us create affordable and healthy meals we will then get to Sample.

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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

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

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

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

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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.

The first smallpox vaccine administered in 1796 was considered a medical miracle. Today, vaccines are a normal part of our healthcare, and their widespread use has eradicated dozens of deadly diseases.

The Queers and Allies (Q&A) Book Club is an inclusive space to discuss LGBTQ+ literature. This month we are reading T Kira Madden's debut novel Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls about growing up in res

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

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

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

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.

Read The Witches by Roald Dahl by yourself, with a friend or caregiver.

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 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 how to make healthy and delicious food with Live Healthy Appalachia! Yum!

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

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

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!

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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

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

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!

Steve Schmitmeyer, our guest speaker, was a successful engineer, loving husband, and father before struck by late-onset schizoaffective
disorder in the 1990s. At the time, medications were crude and NAMI was

Please contact the group or individual leading this event for more info. This event is planned and led by a community group using the library's free meeting spaces. Are you leading a Community Event at one of our locations?