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

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

To schedule an appointment, please call:(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.

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!

It's time to get out the cold-weather clothes again... Before you give up on ever wearing them again, join us for three sessions of Radical
Mending. You'll learn practical sewing skills--including how to hem,

Join us for stories, songs and playful activities!

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!

Meet other parents / grandparents / caregivers and encourage your little ones to love the library...

Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

Join ACPL librarians Deborah, Abie, Todd, and Meredith; the Nelsonville AcornTV Fan Club; and Stephanie from the Athens County Knitters for a Victorian-style luncheon kicking off our annual Steampunk events.

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

Bring your needlework project and enjoy work and conversation with a group of wonderful ladies.

Share stories, songs and dancing at this physical and interactive storytime! 

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

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

An inclusive space to discuss LGBTQ+ literature. Co-hosted by United Campus Ministry at Ohio University.

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

Need homework help?  Please join Angel on the main floor from 3-4 on Wednesdays for any help you may need.Free and open to the public.

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

Need homework help?  Please join Angel from 3-4 on the main floor for any help you may need.Free and open to the public.

Share stories and recipes from home, and learn about food from other places as well.  There will be hands-on cooking (and eating!) each week.  This fun program is led by a small group of Ohio University students.

Need homework help?  Mondays please join Angel on our main floor for any help you may need.Free and open to the public.

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.

Join us Tuesdays at 4pm for school-aged programming, with a rotating schedule of cooking, arts, science, and games.  This week, Rising Appalachia will lead us in playing boffing (foam sword) games.

Join us in making your own bookmark with elements from the great outdoors!

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.Every third Wednesday, from 4

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

Build a bed for your favorite stuffed animal. All supplies provided.Some hand sewing required (adult helpers available).Thursday: Bring your stuffed animal friend to the sleepover.Friday: Pick up your friend anytime between 3 and 5 p.m.

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!

SNAPEd educator Patrick Tegge will offer a hands-on cooking demonstration. The class will enjoy a meal together.Tonight's side will be stuffing with vegtables!  Yumminess.

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

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

Please join us in our grand opening of our kids art gallery!  Refreshments will be provided.

SNAPEd educator Patrick Tegge will offer a hands-on cooking demonstration. The class will enjoy a meal together.Tonight's side will be stuffing with vegetables!  Yum.

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

We'll be making creative projects after hours, every Monday in September at 6pm.  Hope you can join us!This week, we'll do inkblot art.

Already have a mountain dulcimer you'd like to learn to play, or play again? This class is for you! Don't have an instrument? Some are
available to lend. This class is for you!In

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!

Led by ACPL director, Nick Tepe.

SNAPEd educator Patrick Tegge will offer a hands-on cooking demonstration. The class will enjoy a meal together.Tonight's side will be stuffing with vegetables!  Yummy.

We all suffer the blues or depression from time to time, but the mental disorder of clinical depression is long-lasting, deep, and
life-disrupting. Now 55, guest speaker Eric McKee was hit