Week Calendar

• Services the bus offers: free brief legal advice is offered by attorneys to individuals who have legal questions or are exploring their legal options and rights.

Join us for coffee and conversation at the library.

Enjoy an interactive storytime with your child that includes early literacy fun with books, songs, finger play and baby movement.

Ages 0-3

Fun with stories, songs and more that encourage development of early literacy skills in young children.  Ages 3-5

NCBC is a book club designed to include developmentally disabled adults.We read books together, discuss them, and then celebrate with a party. All or no reading ability is acceptable.

Come play with us!

We'll explore books, play games, sing songs, and enjoy each other's company in this open-ended playtime. Older siblings are welcome to follow along.

Walk with us!  We will be meeting each week at the Friends' Meeting House in Chauncey to walk a one-mile loop through the Village of Chauncey for exercise and conversation.

Various activities for your toddler/baby including art and play tubs with items to touch and enjoy.

Join us for stories, songs, and playful activities!

Join us for stories, songs, games, and more! All are welcome.

An early childhood music program for children 5 and under.  Bring your little ones and the whole family for fun and spend music time together!  This program will take place on the first and third Saturday of every month. ...

Meet every week to explore tabletop role-playing games, including Dungeons & Dragons with a group of teens and adults enthusiastic about the hobby.

In person at the Wells (Albany) Library!

Join us from 1-3 pm on Tuesdays for handwork and pleasant conversation. Bring a project to work on: embroidery, knitting, crochet, quilting, mending - whatever you like to do!

Join us for discussion of Amish stories and Amish life. We'll meet at 1:00pm every second Wednesday at the Wells (Albany) Library.
 

Stop by to learn more about the Ohio Afterschool Child Enrichment (ACE) educational savings account program: https://www.aceohio.org/. 
 

Gather your friends and family to join us for a group bike ride along the Hock-hocking Adena Bike-way to hear stories of how people of this region have been coming together in solidarity for centuries as we learn about the early labor movement and

Journey to a time long ago and discover what life was like for the people living back then through fun activities and challenges. 

Explore the remarkable world of raptors with the Hocking College Nature Center. Learn more about these amazing birds and see them for yourself. 

Mammals come in all shapes and sizes and live in a variety of habitats.  Investigate many members of this family by looking at their pelts and skulls, then play a game to learn what neighborhoods they live in.

Get outside this summer and enjoy storytime and fun activities in state parks! 

Stop by to learn more about the Ohio Afterschool Child Enrichment (ACE) educational savings account program: https://www.aceohio.org/. 
 

Do you love to sing? Did you know that not only is singing fun and free, singing is good for your health, increasing breath capacity and lung strength and releasing hormones that make you feel good?

Make a unique bracelet for a friend. Bring your friends or make some new ones at the library!

The Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery invites you to the library for hands-on, interactive, engaging play! Using a STEAM-based approach, we’ll create, test, explore, and connect to some favorite books.

Experiment with runoff, erosion, and filtration and their impact on downstream water quality.  Expect to get wet! Co-sponsored by Ohio University, AmeriCorps, Athens Soil and Water District, and the Friends of Stroud's Run.

Join us for stories, songs, and creative movement!

Stay and play with friends afterward.

Families with preschoolers and school age kids are welcome.

Every Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m.

Spend Tuesday afternoons playing this popular fantasy, tabletop role-playing game. You do NOT have to be an experienced player -- everyone is welcome.

Stop by to learn more about the Ohio Afterschool Child Enrichment (ACE) educational savings account program: https://www.aceohio.org/. 
 

Join us for a weekly Storytime in Nelsonville Library's Kids' Zone!

We'll read books, rhyme rhymes, sing songs, and color coloring sheets!

Meet every week to practice your Spanish in a friendly community setting! Native speakers and those interested in improving their language skills are equally welcome. Free and open to the public.

Come share in a circle of music and movement. This youth drum circle is hosted by Lawrence R. Greene, an Artsbridge catalog artist and the founder of the Ugata drum and dance classes. There will be dancing, games and rhythm play in the circle.

Celebrate PRIDE month by watching Love, Simon here at the Athens Public Library. We'll also have some plain white bandanas out for you to decorate however your heart pleases and all the supplies needed to do so.

Local dance caller Joe Burdock will teach us square dances and other traditional dances. For beginners and experienced dancers of all ages.

...or everybody loses.  Join us for cooperative board games, working together to find the treasure, save the world, or just have fun.

An opportunity to meet in person our month's exhibitors and talk with them about their exhibited items.

Get up close and personal with big trucks and the people who drive them.  See cool vehicles at the library and learn more about how they are used. 

Published in 1924 and set during the Late British Empire and the fracturing of India during the 1910s and '20s, this Modernist novel is based on author E. M.