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

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 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.

Meet other parents / grandparents / caregivers and encourage your little ones to love the library!  Have a little wiggler?  No problem!  There is no pressure for kids to sit still during this story time.Babies, toddlers,

Join the Young Scientist Society while we explore STEAM concepts through fun and engaging experiments.  For December, we will be celebrating science as art.  Our experiments this month will result in cool crafts to take home with

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

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. 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

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.

Snack and drink provided. Free and open to the public.Rated PG.

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

Please join us in a viewing of Finding Clara, a documentary film following the journey of four girls to become Clara, the iconic lead in the beloved Ballet Met's The Nutcracker. With a special performance by Factory

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

Join us Tuesdays at 3:30pm for school-aged programming, with a rotating schedule of cooking, arts, science, and games.  This week we will search for track and sign of animals around the library, then make our own plaster casts to paint &a

Need homework help?  Please join Hocking college student, Angel, 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 make holiday ornaments.

Make a crayon melt glass ornament as a holiday gift!Please register for this event at myacpl.org/events

Please join us for a brief reading of Nelsonville A-Z with Celeste Parsons on December 3rd at 4:30pm.Free and open to the public.

Come see us for a
free-play and tournament of Super Smash Brothers' Ultimate. Some controllers will be provided, but feel
free to bring your own if you have a favorite!

Erin the Librarian will lead us in the art of re-purposing old books and paper into unique journals. Decorate one for yourself or as a gift!No skills are necessary, and all materials are provided.

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

Join Live Healthy Appalachia to discover healthy new seasonal recipes your whole family will enjoy.

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

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!

Shyrl Olinger will teach us a technique called "iris folding." This method uses strips of paper or ribbon to follow a template, creating beautiful designs that have a center iris, similar to the lens of a camera or your eye, and where st

Come geek out with us at the Athens Public Library!  Bring your own board game or choose one from our collection.

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.

Join us for a movie chosen from the book 1001 Movies to See Before You Die by ‎Steven Jay Schneider.             &nbs

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?

Register online or in person at any library location's front desk for this
fun-filled hour of learning to make whimsical, beautiful paper creations