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

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 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.

 Come join the fun creating your individual, sweet creation to take home and enjoy!  All supplies provided.

Come to the library for gaming fun for all ages! Bring your favorite game or use one of ours. Come as an expert or learn something new.

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.

Gather in the library and celebrate the gifts of Winter using fresh tree trimmings & recycled holiday knick-knacks.

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

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 make some food for us & for the birds to keep us going during the cold days of winter.

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

We'll be machine sewing drawstring bags that make great gifts or gift bags! Choose from a variety of fabrics or create your own design on muslin!  Join us for an hour of sharing and caring. Recommended for ages 8 and up.

*Location change note: This month's meeting will be held in the Community Room at Rocky Boots Outlet in Nelsonville.Regular monthly meeting of ACPL's Board of Trustees.

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 be welcoming the holidays with music.

Make a soothing, exfoliating peppermint sugar shower scrub as a gift for the holidays.

We'll be machine sewing drawstring bags that make great gifts or gift bags!

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

Dust your boots off and meet at the Glouster Public Library for a hike on
Trimble High School's Muddy Boot Trail. This trail is a short walk from

Make the #1 requested Christmas candy to give to friends along with other "dipped" treats to give for gifts for the upcoming holiday.

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!

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

Break the fast with orange oatmeal pancakes, with fruit and yogurt!Host: OSU Extension

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

Come geek out with us at the Athens Public Library!  Bring your own board game or choose one from our collection. You can even join in for a flexible Dungeons and Dragons campaign. 

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!

Professor and "media archaeologist" Art Cromwell continues our journey through classic photographs, historic music, vintage movies, and archival television programs to rediscover the development of jazz music in America and its evolving

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?