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 welcome.

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.

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!

Enjoy free play and social hour with your baby. Resources may include crafts, sensory play and songs.

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!

Join friends as we read, play, sing, and create together!

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!

Join us for stories, play, and fun-filled activities!  Free and open to the public.

Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

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

The Athens Village presents a Tech Fair, primarily for seniors. Did you get a new electronic device (cellphone, tablet, iPhone, iPad…) as a present, but forgot how to use it?

   Saturday Afternoon is a great time to meet friends at the Library for a movie.Snack and drink provided.Free and Open to the Public.

Drop in and play Yu-Gi-Oh!, 3DS, Pokemon, Magic, or more!Bring your cards if you have some; if you don’t, come play anyway!Now in the Young Adult Area.Saturdays, 1pm-4:30pm

Schools out! Come on over for a afternoon adventure on the screen and a craft to work on during the show.

Hear excepts from a collaborative collection of 21 poems accompanied by e-collage meditation riffs, and learn about the inspiration and

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

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness MonthJoin the Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program (SAOP) for snacks, games, and to learn

Create a framed valentine with Christina Lehman Rice, a fervent longtime crafter who experiments in different mediums and who developed her own quilling design for this program.Registration appreciated. 

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

Build with Legos. Come back and add to your structure during this 3 week program. The final Lego creations will be displayed at the library in March.

Please join us in making valentines for that special someone or your friends!Free and open to the public.Grades 7-12

Snack provided.

Ohio University Renaissance Engineers (RenEs) – a Russ College student organization – operate under four pillars: educational outreach, technical projects, engineering professionalism, and infrastructure.Our mission is to create

Join Rising Appalachia (www.risingappalachia.org) at Chauncey Public Library for outdoor games and wilderness education.As part of Chauncey's weekly Thrive Thursday school-age programming,

Create, develop and share your stories in a welcoming place. This workshop's focus is fiction; open and flexible to your needs. All types
of stories and lengths encouraged! Let's talk books! Let's write! Let's

Enjoy an afternoon making crafts of, and for, our furry and feathered friends on Valentines Day!

Kids and Migration Storytime with SURJ Join us for a special storytime with the group Standing up for Racial
Justice (SURJ). They will read a few stories, share an activity, and

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!

Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.
Grades 1-4.  Siblings welcome.
Parents/caregivers are expected to stay during playgroup sessions.Image source:

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness MonthJoin the Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program (SAOP) for snacks, games, and to learn

Meet the artists showing their work this month, refreshments courtesy of the Friends of the Athens Public Library!

This week:  Power Bowls: Join Live Healthy Appalachia as they share easy, heart-healthy

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

Explore and Develop Your Creative Abilities with a Community of Teen Writers.Meets every-other Monday from January 14th through March 25th.Free and open to all teens.  Registration is encouraged, but not required.

What is this movie about?
An ex-con businesswoman tries to revamp her image by helping a group of girls sell brownies.

Run time: 1 hour, 39 minutesRated: R (We will be watching the Theatrical Version)

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!

This 1995 documentary launched a movement across the U.S. and around the world, showing how ordinary citizens in Billings, Montana
joined together when their neighbors were under attack by white

Charles W.

Freezy fun at the library for the whole family.