Week Calendar

Baby and Toddler Storytime 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Athens Public Library Children's area 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.

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

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!

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!

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.

Add a little color to your windows and brighten the April showers away.  Come join Lisa for an hour or two and use your coloring skills to color and assemble a hanging suncatcher.  All materials provided free of charge.

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.

   Saturday Afternoon is a great time to meet friends at the Library for a movie.

Movie rated PG-13

Free and open to the public

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.

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.

Meet biologists from Ohio University and check out what they’re studying. Interactive stations will feature biodiversity from Athens County and beyond. Stop by anytime between 3:30-5:30. For people of all ages.

Join us Mondays for school-aged, maker-themed programming inspired by books!

This week, we'll be using art supplies to create portraits of our pets, dream pets, or a friend or loved one's pets.

  Make a hanging piece of art for your home or for the library out of all recycled materials

Join us for a variety hour where we will create our own found object mobiles and sculptures using wire, hot glue, and a whole lot of random Junk! All supplies and snacks provided! All ages!

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

Learn about kindness as a super power through stories, songs and activities.

Come draw with us and see the art show from the previous month.  April's theme is bugs and flowers and we will practice drawing them as they pop back up with the spring weather!

Excited for spring and summer? Ready to get your hands in the dirt? This is for you! COMCorps members from Community Food Initiatives and Athens County Public Libraries will be giving away seeds in all 7 branches throughout April.

Craft your own custom paper miniatures that can be used for tabletop roleplaying games (such as Dungeons and Dragons), wargames, or board games.

Excited for spring and summer? Ready to get your hands in the dirt? This is for you! COMCorps members from Community Food Initiatives and Athens County Public Libraries will be giving away seeds in all 7 branches throughout April.

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! 

Excited for spring and summer? Ready to get your hands in the dirt? This is for you! COMCorps members from Community Food Initiatives and Athens County Public Libraries will be giving away seeds in all 7 branches throughout April.

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.

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.