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

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

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 the Young Scientist Society while we explore STEAM concepts through fun and engaging experiments! For our first meeting, we plan to make flashlights with pennies.

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

Join Lisa for a delightful lunch and board games with adults from the community.Refreshments provided.Photo taken from: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ph

Enjoy free play and social hour with your baby. Resources may include crafts, sensory play and songs.Newborns, infants and toddlers welcome!

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.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). SAOP would like to spread the word and provide people with more information about domestic violence and sexual assault.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). SAOP would like to spread the word and provide people with more information about domestic violence and sexual assault.

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.

Join a representative from the Aspire program from OhioMeansJobsand learn how they can help you get your GED. Drop in anytime during thehours listed. No appointment necessary.

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

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.

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.

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, Julia Miller will lead us in making our own juggling balls, and then juggling with them.

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.

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

Meet biologists from Ohio University and check out what they’re studying. Interactive stations will feature biodiversity from Athens County and beyond. Stop by anytime between 4:00 and 6:00. For people of all ages.

Join the Renaissance Engineers from Ohio University for an interactive STE(A)M workshop!

Feeling the magic and mystery in the air? Come and immerse yourself in the October spirit as we dance to the drum, and learn the movements of Yankadi-Macrou, a West African celebration dance that correlates to the Full Moon. 

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!

Join us as James and Shawna Stump teach us awareness and defense techniques to protect ourselves in different settings and situations. James is a police officer, and both James and Shawna present this workshop designed especially for women.

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

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 in decorating ordinary rocks to brighten someones day!

Follow clues in your backpack to discover the day's adventure.

Get together to learn new board games with a fun group of people.

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. Parents and caregivers are

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!

Geek out with us at the library! Bring your own board game, or choose one from our growing collection. You can even join the members of Ratha Con, Athens Pop Culture Convention group, for a flexible Dungeons and Dragons campaign. 

Join us for a movie chosen from the book 1001 Movies to See Before You Die by ‎Steven Jay Schneider. Snack provided!For grades 9 & up. Movie rated PG-13.Free and Open to the Public.

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

Hang out after hours and play Fortnite... or other computer games... or simply socialize!*Time on computers may be limited to an hour per person

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?

Meeting time: The second Wednesday of every month at 7pm (except for July, August and December).This group brings in guest speakers who are often noted and published