Week Calendar

Baby and Toddler Storytime 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Athens Public Library Children's area. Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.

Bring poetry you've written and receive helpful and encouraging comments from fellow poets.

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

Light refreshments provided.

To register, visit NationwideChildrens.org/PREP-Events; email Kennedie.Burston@NationwideChildren's.org; or call 614.355.4677.

Join us for some casual booktalk and light refreshments.

Baby and Toddler Storytime9:30 AM - 10:00 AM. Athens Public Library Children's area. Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.

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...

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.

Beat the winter blues! Drop in for some fun with jigsaw puzzles, adult coloring pages, and board games. We'll have hot drinks and light snacks, too.All library programs are free and open to the public.

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.

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. The Library is closed on January 1, so we'll meet on the second Wednesday in January.

Enjoy needlework? Join us and bring your knitting, embroidery, crochet, or hand sewing.

Join a representative from the Aspire program with OhioMeansJobsand learn how they can help you get your GED. Drop in anytime during thehours listed. No appointment necessary.

Join a representative from the Aspire program with 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.

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. It's Taco Tuesday! It will be a team effort to put together the delicious pieces and parts of this meal. Come on down!

Need help fighting off cabin fever? Join our teen crafternoon to make a craft to take home! Materials will be provided. Free and open to the public!

Join us Mondays for school-aged, maker-themed programming inspired by books!This week, we'll make...TORTILLAS & GUACAMOLE, with recipes from "Mexico" by Julie McCullochProgram inspired by:"The Little Taco Truck" by

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 feathers and flowers out of used magazines and newspapers.

Use scissors and glue to create a unique piece of artwork out of old magazines and books! Pieces made during this event will be displayed through January in our Children's Gallery.

Calling all Anime enthusiasts! Come visit us after school on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month to watch our favorite Anime series, and enjoy a variety of creative activities and challenges. Snacks will be provided.

Drop in to play fun games and interact with open-ended learning centers that support math skills and concepts learned in elementary school.  Every Thursday in January, February, and March.

Beat winter boredom and join us for an afternoon of playing popular boardgames!

Sue Zano, a certified astrologist, will present a program in which the high and low sides of astrological signs are explained. Please come with questions.

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

Warm yourself up with broccoli, chicken, potato soup!Host: OSU Extension

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

Come geek out with us at the Athens Public Library!  Join in for a flexible Dungeons and Dragons campaign, bring your own board game, or learn to play our featured Board Game of the Month.

Levi Scofield--Civil War veteran, self-taught master architect, and Ohioan-- led an extraordinary life creating large public buildings to serve a new urban age in his home state. Scofield is mostly remembered for designing not only the Athens