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!

Gather round for reading, singing, play & fun.

This group focuses on developmental skills appropriate preschool aged children but all ages are welcome!

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.

A time to read, play, and sing together! Try out songs by Woody Guthrie (plus other easy, family-friendly tunes) with Tessa every Friday. 

Rhythm instruments provided.

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.

Join a representative from the Aspire program with OhioMeansJobs

and learn how they can help you get your GED. Drop in anytime during the

hours listed. No appointment necessary.

Want to roll your D&D campaign to the next level? Come create your very own take-home dice tower! Artist Andrew McKinley will show you how to use recycled materials and uniquely design each tower to your own personal tastes. 

If you like books (especially mysteries!), join us as we choose titles to read and discuss as a group.

Join a representative from the Aspire program with OhioMeansJobs

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.

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 OhioMeansJobs

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. 

Several rotating 1.5 hour Interactive Art and Virtual Reality workshops will be offered. All materials necessary to take part in the workshops will be provided.  Check out the workshops at 

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.

Sewing class for beginners.

We will be learning simple hand sewing techniques.

No supplies required. Take home what you make! 

Several rotating 1.5 hour Interactive Art and Virtual Reality workshops will be offered. All materials necessary to take part in the workshops will be provided.  Check out the workshops at 

Sewing class for beginners.

We will be learning simple hand sewing techniques.

No supplies required. Take home what you make! 

Help get our raised beds cleaned up from last year and revved up for a new growing season with some early spring vegetables and flowers.

Create a felt Baby Yoda plushie, and other Star Wars crafts.

All supplies provided.

Some hand sewing required.

A recurring series where we'll cook some food and watch an ecological documentary together.For our last month, we'll be making sea-shell shaped pasta salad and diving deep into the sea.This month's film is Oceans by Disneynature. 

Build with Legos and create a structure for display in the children's art gallery during the month of April.

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.

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 for a special storytime with the group Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). They will read a few stories, share an activity, and offer a resource guide and book list for families to learn more about the topic!

Get to know...yourself! Learn more about emotions--including how to identify and cope with them--through fun crafts and activities.  

Join us for a special storytime with the group Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). They will read a few stories, share an activity, and offer a resource guide and book list for families to learn more about the topic!

Come draw with us! Each Friday we'll serve cocoa or lemonade (weather depending) and explore different drawing themes and mediums. 

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

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

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

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. 

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