Week Calendar

 Nothing says love like a Pizza! Come learn to bake your own mini pizza in the shape of a heart!

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.

We lose an estimated $60 billion dollars a year to Medicare errors, abuse, and fraud.  Stop by the Ohio-SMP (Senior Medicare Patrol) information booth to learn how you can protect yourself and help combat this problem.  

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 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.

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! For families with young children.

Adults are invited to join us for a movie and lunch. We will be watching the movie Journey Home, the story of a young boy who attempts to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother in northern Canada. PG

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. 

Join a staff member from Rural Action who can walk you through a steps to take art in professional training for careers in the solar field. Drop in anytime during the hours listed. No appointment necessary.

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 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.

Join a representative from the Aspire program with Ohio Means Jobs and learn how they can help you get your GED. Drop in anytime during the hours listed. No appointment necessary.

Join a representative from the Aspire program with Ohio Means Jobs and learn how they can help you get your GED. Drop in anytime during the hours 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.

Join a representative from the Aspire program with Ohio Means Jobs and learn how they can help you get your GED. Drop in anytime during the hours listed. No appointment necessary.

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

We eat a broad variety of foods, rarely realizing the importance that chewing has on our health. We do notice, however, when it goes wrong.

 Join us Tuesdays at 3:30pm for school-aged programming, with a rotating schedule of cooking, arts, science, and games.Try your hand at some basic techniques for making practical items such as bowls, utensils and fire.

The Craft of the Month Club will feature a different craft project each month for adults on every third Wednesday of the month from 3-4pm.

Visit the Pop-Up Library at the next installment of Authors@Alden. Sign up for an ACPL library card, check out some library books, and register to vote!

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

Special 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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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

Every third Thursday, join us in crafting for a cause.  This Thursday, brighten up your neighborhood and brighten a bird's day by making TIN CAN BIRD FEEDERS. 

Join the Renaissance Engineers from Ohio University for an interactive STE(A)M workshop!

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 Initatives

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.