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.

*Infobooth operated by Andrew Tinkham, Senior Education and Outreach Specialist with the Ohio Consumers Council.

Join us for coffee or tea to jump-start your week and visit with friends and community members.

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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 strength

Rebecca Wood (and other instructors) will teach simple yoga poses. Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

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.

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

Join the Young Scientist Society while we explore STEAM concepts through fun and engaging hands on experiments.  Ages 6-12 recommended, but older and younger siblings are welcome.Preregistration is requested to make sure enough materials 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.

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

Eager for spring? Excited to be thinking of your garden? Come play with seeds, and create your own mosaic!We will be providing light snackage as well. 

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 unfinished sewing, quilting, crochet and knitting projects sitting in a drawer? Are you ready for some new ideas and shortcuts?

Bring your needlework project and enjoy work and conversation with a group of wonderful ladies.

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

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strengthInstructor Linda Cochran teaches simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

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Eager for spring? Excited to be thinking of your garden? Come play with seeds, and create your own mosaic! We will be providing light snackage as well. 

Spend Monday afternoons playing this popular fantasy, tabletop role-playing game. You do NOT have to be an experienced player -- everyone is welcome. Game pieces and character sheets are provided, but feel free to bring your own. Grades 9 and up.

Join us Tuesdays at 3:30pm for school-aged programming, with a rotating schedule of cooking, arts, science, and games.This time around, test your baking skills with these historically delicious doughnuts.

Eager for spring? Excited to be thinking of your garden? Come play with seeds, and create your own mosaic!We will be providing light snackage as well. 

Spread the love with Rice Krispies treat hearts, hand crafted by you!

Join us Mondays for school-aged, maker-themed programming inspired by books! This week, we'll make Valentine's Day cards out of upcycled materials, including old book pages and book covers! 

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.

Learn to stencil your own t shirt, with diluted bleach!

Celebrate who you are! A discussion of gender expression and identity for kids and their families. Join us for a special storytime with the group Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ).

Join us for Open Teen Night to catch up with friends, play games, discuss young adult literature and get help with homework. For grades 7-12. 

Snowflake specialist Natalie Barman will teach participants techniques to create snowflakes with paper and scissors.This program is designed for ages 9 years and older.  Registration required.

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.

Join us to celebrate the birds that fly through the region with Audubon's annual Great Backyard Bird Count.

Eager for spring? Excited to be thinking of your garden? Come play with seeds, and create your own mosaic!We will be providing light snackage as well. 

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

Host: Live Healthy Appalachia 

Follow clues in your backpack to discover the day's adventure.

Join us in our new surroundings as we celebrate our patrons with music, crafts and food.

Celebrate who you are! A discussion of gender expression and identity for kids and their families. 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!  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. 

Join us for a movie chosen from the book 1001 Movies to See Before You Die by ‎Steven Jay Schneider. Snack provided! For grades 9 & up. Movie rated PG. Free and Open to the Public.

Join us for the unique opportunity of discussing a manuscript before it's published! This semi-biographical, fictionalized account of the author's mother traces her real struggles across the decades from the 1930s into the '70s.