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 for lunch and this timeless film [Rated PG].Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell) wins a piglet named Babe (Christine Cavanaugh) at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate

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.

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.

Join us for hands-on workshops focused on supporting and promoting healthy aging through low impact fitness, group activities, health coaching, meditation, and more.Eating Healthy When Life Gets Complicated with Live Healthy Appalachia.&a

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.

This landmark Native American film is based on the critically-acclaimed memoir of the same name by Kent Nerburn and co-stars Lakota Elder Dave Bald Eagle, who was 95-years-old during filming.

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, we'll have pumpkin snacks and make pumpkin themed crafts.

All supplies provided-- just bring your creativity! Please register for this program at myacpl.org/events or in person at the front desk.

Learn about the author and illustrator, Eric Carle. Use finger paints to create art paper. 

For girls in grades 3-5. A club interested in helping to close the gender gap for girls in computer science fields,

Sharon Hatfield has researched and written a book about Jonathan Koons, an Athens County resident of the 1800s, who turned from Atheism to conducting Spiritualist meetings at his homestead, which featured consultations with the deceased and perfor

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!

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

Drop by the Coolville Public Library to browse for recipes in Taste of Home's Simple & Delicious. Choose one you would like to prepare and share. Bring it the evening of the program and enjoy a potluck dinner with friendly people.

What types of activities should you expect to do when running a business? We will introduce you to basic terms and concepts, like hashtag, DMs, web hosting, content design, google business, reviews, testimonials, value propositions and branding.

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

Come to the Athens Library for Trick or Treat! Books and Treats!

Ghosts and Goblins Abound! The library will be handing out free books to all young witches and monsters during the neighborhood trick-or-treat! Don't forget the haunted house at The Plains Fire Department following!

Visit the Chauncey Library during trick-or-treat for a book to keep!

Meet local racing enthusiast Jon Shevel. Explore race cars fresh off the race track and learn about professional racing.

What types of activities should you expect to do when running a business? We will introduce you to basic terms and concepts, like hashtag, DMs, web hosting, content design, google business, reviews, testimonials, value propositions and branding.

The Clay Soper Memorial Fund presents the documentary film "If They Had Known," which focuses on risks of recreationally mixing prescription drugs with alcohol.

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.

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. 

Three New York drag queens travel cross-country on their way to Hollywood, but a broken-down car strands them in a narrow-minded
Midwestern town, where they share makeup tips with the ladies and show

Stop by the library for a calorie free, sugar free book during the village trick or treat event.

Join us for the sixth annual Chauncey Campfire!  Featuring music, night games, hot dogs, s'mores, and more!

Librarian Todd will read ashort story by Ambrose Bierce, first appeared in the July 13th 1890
edition of The San Francisco Examiner,
and then subsequently appeared in the collection, Tales