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.

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 to focus on the plant pigments and colors of autumn and explore the biodiverse, native tree populations around us. We will also learn how to identify some of the trees in Nelsonville's Fort St.

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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 us to focus on the plant pigments and colors of autumn and explore the biodiverse, native tree populations around us.

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

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.

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.

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.

In this workshop, we'll explain the fundamentals of sprouting microgreens, maintenance, and why they're so marvelous! We'll also discuss and demo how we can eliminate food waste in our kitchens while also re-growing our own

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.

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

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.

Join us at Glouster Library for a teens cooking demo. We will use our Appalachian bananas to make some scrumptious and healthy pancakes! Pawpaw Festival may be over, but our pancakes are going to start a party for your taste buds.

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, we will do a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) program.

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).

Local Author Rhonda Cable will read her recently released book A Broom for Ma, a fictional portrayal of the process of broom-making. Her husband Curt will also demonstrate how to construct an actual broom.

Join Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Pediatrics Club and be adoctor for a day! Kids of all ages will have the opportunity to spend time with real medicalstudents learning what it’s like to be a doctor.

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!

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

In this workshop, we'll explain the fundamentals of sprouting microgreens, maintenance, and why they're so marvelous! We'll also discuss and demo how we can eliminate food waste in our kitchens while also re-growing our own

THE LIBRARY IS CLOSED FOR A COUNTY STAFF MEETING.

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!

Planning your next local hike just got easier. Join local author Mary Reed, whose new guide recommends the best trails in the region.

Welcome to Button Mashers, featuring video game-related challenges and trivia.  Test your video game knowledge and win some cool prizes!Most questions and challenges are taken from the Nintendo and arcade game platformsGrades 9 a

Make a blank, artistic book with pockets, pull outs, windows and more.Feel free to bring cutouts and pictures to add to your book as fun inclusions!Register in person or online at myacpl.oeg/events.

Walk through our haunted library and be afraid...very afraid! Enjoy the outdoor kids' games as you wait to enter.Free and open to the public. *This program is not intended for very young children