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.

To schedule an appointment, please call:(740) 592.9454.
Questions? Contact the OhioHealth mobile mammography technicians at (740)
541.4522 or

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,

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 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 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.

Join us as we build a scale model of the Chauncey Public Library entirely from Legos! 

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 led by Hocking College student Angel!

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.

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!

4th Fridays at 2pm.

Learn more about the daily lives of indigenous peoples who once lived in our region, including their horticulture, social customs, dwellings, beliefs, tools, clothing, and even the games and sports they played.Our guest speaker is Patrick Qua

The Queers and Allies (Q&A) Book Club is an inclusive space to discuss LGBTQ+ literature. 

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. What is special about your creek? Get to know what lives in the Sunday Creek watershed. Will include live specimens.

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!

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.

We will build tambourines out of paper plates or embroidery hoops (depending on ages of participants) and do some basic rhythm exercises.

Cure the winter blues with creative play with Legos! Creations will not be saved throughout event. New creations each day.

Teen Time is a monthly program designed to give teens the chance to hang out with friends and meet new people.

Cure the winter blues with creative play with Legos! Creations will not be saved throughout event. New creations each day.

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.

Cure the winter blues with creative play with Legos! Creations will not be saved throughout event. New creations each day.

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

Cure the winter blues with creative play with Legos! Creations will not be saved throughout event. New creations each day.

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

Join us as we learn how to use seasonal, local, and delicious foods to make simple recipes with Community Food Initiatives (CFI)!Host: Community Food Initiatives (CFI)

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. 

Fred Corlew is a local poet who writes poetry the way some people need to find good water to drink: to him, it is life itself.  He describes his work as "tongue-slung banjo-tune poetry," has put in a stint as a street p