Upcoming Events

A weekly storytime for babies and toddlers under 2!  We will focus on early literacy skills through songs, rhymes, and stories.  Each session will conclude with a playtime, allowing children and adults time to interact with each other.

Get ready for Halloween as we make some fun, spooky crafts!  We will make luminaries, spider webs, and more.  Drop in anytime between 3:30 and 5:30 pm.

We have bottle gourds, thanks to a donation! Turn 'em into a ghost, a jack-o-lantern, a bird house, a scarecrow, or just paint them to look pretty.

REGISTRATION opens 10/01 at 8 a.m. Please register each person separately.

Let’s get a little spooky! Join us to make a miniature pet ghost, ghoul, or monster and a little jar home to keep them from going bump in the night!

Anita Willets Burnham was an artist, author, and visionary who boldly took her family of 6 around the world, twice, in the 1920s.

During this special storytime we will read some gentle Halloween stories, sing songs, and trick-or-treat through the library.  Feel free to wear your costume!

A weekly storytime for babies and toddlers under 2!  We will focus on early literacy skills through songs, rhymes, and stories.  Each session will conclude with a playtime, allowing children and adults time to interact with each other.

This class will be in-person at the library but the instructor will be virtual. We will all learn and practice some basic watercolor painting together. Victoria comes highly recommended by other libraries.

Join us each month as we make a different type of slime!  This month we will be making rainbow explosion slime.

Join us for stories, flannelboards, songs, and a craft every Wednesday morning.  For children ages 2-5 with their caregiver.  

Join Investigator Jon Johannsen from the Stephenson County Sheriff Department to learn about how to protect yourself from identity theft and scammers and what to do if your information is compromised.

Join ChessPort!

No experience necessary.

Chess sets are provided.

Free, no registration.

All current, former, rusty, and new players welcome!

Have you ever wondered what happens at the library after it closes?  Bring your stuffed animals to spend the night at the library and see what happens.  Drop them off and make them a special sleeping bag between 4:00 and 5:45 Friday, Nov

Visit the library and read a story to one of the sweet pups from Therapy Dogs International.

Calling all teens! Want more teen activities and social events? Need to fulfill volunteer hours? Get involved on this planning team and help improve library services for 7th - 12th graders. All ideas welcome!

Join us for stories, flannelboards, songs, and a craft every Wednesday morning.  For children ages 2-5 with their caregiver.  

Make soap with special presenters from Soapy Roads of Lombard! While the soap is setting there will be a presentation about soap.

REGISTER.

Meet to play and talk Pokémon with other trainers! Players can bring their own cards, or use decks provided by the library. Trade cards, battle each other, or just talk strategy – this club is for novice trainers and experts alike!

At this oil painting craft for adults, Nina will lead you in creating your own work of art. 

Registration required. Please register each person separately. FREE.

Registration opens 10/1.

Come create with us!  Each month we will make a masterpiece you can take home.  Come dressed to make a mess!

A weekly storytime for babies and toddlers under 2!  We will focus on early literacy skills through songs, rhymes, and stories.  Each session will conclude with a playtime, allowing children and adults time to interact with each other.

The first book in the Roger the Chapman series. "The political situation in 1471 is complex and the war between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions still rages.