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.

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.

This is a Community Event run by community members at a library location.

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!

Schedule an appointment today:(740) 592.9454.
Questions? Contact the OhioHealth mobile mammography technicians at (740)
541.4522 or

Make lunch at the Nelsonville Public Library the week of Spring Break!Monday: Fruit Pizza Tuesday: Pizza RollsWednesday: Waffle BarThursday: Trail Mix and Ants on a Log Friday: LunchablesMonday: Pasta Salad 

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.

Make lunch at the Nelsonville Public Library the week of Spring Break!Monday: Fruit Pizza Tuesday: Pizza RollsWednesday: Waffle BarThursday: Trail Mix and Ants on a Log Friday: LunchablesMonday: Pasta Salad 

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!

Make lunch at the Nelsonville Public Library the week of Spring Break!Monday: Fruit Pizza Tuesday: Pizza RollsWednesday: Waffle BarThursday: Trail Mix and Ants on a Log Friday: LunchablesMonday: Pasta Salad 

Make lunch at the Nelsonville Public Library the week of Spring Break!Monday: Fruit Pizza Tuesday: Pizza RollsWednesday: Waffle BarThursday: Trail Mix and Ants on a Log Friday: LunchablesMonday: Pasta Salad 

Join a circle of gardeners who meet to discuss the triumphs and tackle the problems of gardening.

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

Make lunch at the Nelsonville Public Library the week of Spring Break!Monday: Fruit Pizza Tuesday: Pizza RollsWednesday: Waffle BarThursday: Trail Mix and Ants on a Log Friday: LunchablesMonday: Pasta Salad 

Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

Drop in anytime between 11 and 1 for an afternoon of crafts and snacks! 

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

April showers bring May flowers... let's shower the world with kindness!  Join us to read books about Kindness, and then create your own care package to give to someone you care about.

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

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

Be a part of the movie with scripts, bingo or a craft.A snack is provided!Guardians of the Galaxy is rated PG-13

Human beings in every culture use food to communicate and form social connection. Our guest speakers, Majed Zailaee and Kiril Dragiev

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

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

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month!Join the Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program for games, snacks, and a conversation about consent.

Come join CFI for the annual seed giveaway! Bring along all of your gardening questions. There will be free tip sheets, materials, and plenty of seeds.

Please join us for an after school snack and some great stories!Playful activities too! 

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.

From Apples to Apples to good ol' fashion Go Fish! Come on down after hours for game night at the library. 

Read Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly by yourself, with a friend or caregiver.

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
offer a resource guide and book list for families to learn more about

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, Lola and Winston from Calm Companions.

 Create and share your stories in a welcoming place.  This workshop's focus is fiction (Fan Fiction also welcome)  It is peer-led and flexible to all your needs.  All types of stories and lengths are encour

Kids who love making jewelry and being crafty will enjoy this program. Ideal for ages 6 to 12.All supplies provided.

After school programming by Athens Area Mediation Services. A different fun activity every month with the goal of teaching people how to better communicate with each other. 

Join Renaissance Engineering Students from Ohio University for an interactive STE(A)M workshop!

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

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:

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

A new fun activity every week with the goal of becoming better communicators. 

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

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!

Not just a religious document, theBible is also one of the great works of world literature. Originally
written in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic (and long only available to

Stay late at the library to play your favorite games of all types (computer games! board games!  card games!)  We look forward to gaming with YOU. *times restrictions on computer games may be enforced