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.

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!

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

Diley Hill Animal Emergency Center will be at The Plains Library from 10am-12pm to give kids the experience of being a Veterinarian!

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...

An early childhood music program for children 5 and under. Bring your little one and the whole family for a fun and special family music time!Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

A book club for the entire community focused on including adults with developmental disabilities.

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.

Join us at the Wells Public Library at 1:00 pm on the first Wednesday of every month to discuss Amish life and our favorite Amish books and authors.

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.

Join Chris Quole, National Service Member for Social Enterprise Outreach and Education at Rural Action, who will help you think about how to solve a problem in your community through starting a small business.

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

Calling all teens!  Join us for some after school fun. 

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.

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.

Welcome Autumn and Winter with open arms. Come and make a reversible sign with us that will be a wonderful decoration to display. All materials will be provided.

Join Chris Quolke, National Service Member for Social Enterprise Outreach
and Education at Rural Action, who will help you think about how to

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.

Join us for Open Teen Night to catch up with friends, play games, discuss young adult literature and get help with homework. For grades 7-12. 

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, we'll make slime!

Join the fun with Origami Anne! We will be creating origami pieces for our Kids Art Gallery. October gallery reception will be October 15 at 5:30.

Apple pie, apple cider, bobbing for apples...just a few of the treats that come along with this fall fruit. Join Rural Action's Sustainable Agriculture team in celebrating this years harvest with apple snacks, stories and a craft.

Join Chris Quolke, National Service Member for Social Enterprise Outreach and Education at Rural Action, who will help you think about how to solve a problem in your community through starting a small business. Participants will gain know

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 are surrounded by stories every day. How do we write about the places we live and love? When a place is deeply familiar
to us, how can we continue to notice it in new ways? Who are our

Breakfast isn't just for the morning!  Join us for pancakes, eggs, and more!  Bring your appetite and we'll supply the rest.

We'll be making creative projects after hours, every Monday in September at 6pm.  Hope you can join us!This week, we'll be completing a mosaic to be displayed in the library.

Drop in or attend every meeting of this series hosted Monday evenings through November. You do not need to have experience with meditation, and may join us to enjoy some quiet time to de-stress.

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!

The Athens County Prosecutor's Office provides an open support group for parents who have experienced a child fighting addiction, the first Wednesday of every month.

Quite apart from the debates of historians as to the actual guilt or innocence of King Richard III, the last of the Royal House of York to
rule England, William Shakespeare's play is an artistic study in the

Steve Zarate is one of Athens' most talented songwriters, and his latest album is a rich achievement.  Learn
the interesting stories behind this latest cycle of songs and how he