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.

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

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!

Work on your child’s fine motor and gross motor skills while learning ABCs, colors, and numbers.

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.

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.

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 us for an afternoon tea with scones and quiche.   For entertainment we will be viewing the film, "Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death."

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.

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.

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 welcome. Game pieces and character sheets are provided, but feel free to bring your own. Grades 9 and up.

Join us Mondays for school-aged, maker-themed programming inspired by books!  This week, we'll read a Dr. Seuss book and make a Pink Yink Ink Drink.  Don't forget to wink while drinking your drink!

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.

A recurring series where we'll cook some food and watch an ecological documentary together.This month, we'll be making our own salsa and dipping corn chips in it.This month's film is Beyond the Brink. 

Use perler beads to create pixel art-inspired charms, keychains, or freestyle it to create a piece of your own. All materials will be provided.

Teen Time is a monthly program designed to give teens the chance to hang out with friends and meet new people. Each month there will be a planned activity designed especially for Teens and Young Adults.

For girls in grades 3-5. 

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.

There will be no Cool Math Games 02/27. Please join us next week! 

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).

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. 

Kids who love dinosaurs will enjoy this program!

Participate in fossil excavation, help build 3D dinosaur models, and play with our new and unusual dinosaurs.

Visit with a friendly T-Rex!

Drop by the Coolville Public Library to browse for recipes in Taste of Home's Simple & Delicious. Choose one you would like to prepare and share. Bring it the evening of the program and enjoy a potluck dinner with friendly people.

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

For World Food Wednesday, we'll be indulging in turkey tacos with stir-fried veggies! How scrumptious. Host: OSU Extension

Hang out after hours and play Fortnite... or other computer games... or simply socialize!

Visit the Pop-Up Library at a free screening of Mankiller, part of the Athena Cinema's Women Pioneers series, commemorating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage.

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.

Join us for an after-hours party full of games, activities, and festive snacks celebrating Leap Day!