The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Toddlers are invited to Toddler Time on Wednesdays at 10:00 am. Parents/guardians may choose from three Pre-K Story Hours for their preschool-age child. We’ll offer the same program on Tuesday and  Thursday at 10:00 am and on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm. Call 270-237-3861 to reserve your child’s place. On Tuesday at 1:00 pm, Home-School children ages 5-12 are invited to enrichment programs. On Thursdays at 2:00 pm, Home-School teens are invited to enrichment programs.

On Friday, October 28, children are invited to participate in the annual Trick ‘O Treat parade. Parents or adult caregivers must accompany children through the parade route. Thanks in advance to the Scottsville Police Department for agreeing to help us cross streets safely and a huge thank you to the downtown merchants who agreed to distribute treats to the kiddos.

If you are homebound, we are happy to make non-contact home deliveries. Call Ms. Delonda at 270-237-3861 if you need this service.

New books for children include:   Welcome, Dark by Charis St. Pierre,  The Iheards by Emily Kilgore, A Very Mercy Christmas by Kate DiCamillo, Caves by Nell Cross Beckerman, Mushroom Lullaby by Kenneth Kraegel, Summer Green to Autumn Gold by Mia Posada, I Cannot Draw a Horse by Charise Mericle Harper, Build a House by Rhiannon Giddens, Pig the Rebel by Aaron Blabey, That Fat Cat Who Changed His Ways by Daniel Walten, Poultrygeist by Eric Geron, At Home with the Heelers: Part of Bluey: by Penguin Young Readers Licenses,  The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mac Barnett, Leaves: An Autumn Pop-Up Book by Janet Lawler, Mr. Putter & Tabby Pick the Pears by Cynthia Ryland & Arthur Howard, Green is for Christmas by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers, Herbet on the Slide by Rilla Alexander, Tree Hole Homes: Daytime Dens and Nighttime Nooks by Melissa Steward and Amy Hevron, and Middle School Bites: Night of the Vam-Wolf-Zom by Steven Banks.

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham, Righteous Prey by John Sandford, The Twelve Topsy-Turvey, Very Messy Days of Christmas by James Patterson and Tad Safran, Next in Line by Jeffrey Archer, A Turn of the Tide by Kelly Armstrong, Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter, Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain, Thank you for Listening by Julia Whelan, The Devil Takes You Home by Gabina Iglesias, Lighthouse Cove by Rachel Hanna, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, A Model of Devotion by Mary Connealy, Sugar and Salt by Susan Wiggs, Trinity by Leon Uris, The Christmas Spirit by Debbie Macomber, Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson, The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, No Plan B by Lee Child and Andrew Child, Thief of Fate by Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets, and The Last Chairlift by John Irving.

New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: We Never Die: Secrets of the Afterlife by Matt Fraser, Raising Pastured Rabbits for Meat by Nichki Carangelo, You Can’t Be Serious by Kal Penn, How to Teach Anything by Peter Hollins, Macramé for Beginners by Emily Ribbons, and Water Bath Canning and Preserving by Lauren Bulk

The library offers over 500 free on-online classes. Check out our website www.allencountylibrary.com, click on the “Free Online Classes button, and create an account with your library card number.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.

The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Toddlers are invited to Toddler Time on Wednesdays at 10:00 am. Parents/guardians may choose from three Pre-K Story Hours for their preschool-age child. We’ll offer the same program on Tuesday and  Thursday at 10:00 am and on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm. Call 270-237-3861 to reserve your child’s place. On Tuesday at 1:00 pm, Home-School children ages 5-12 are invited to enrichment programs. On Thursdays at 2:00 pm, Home-School teens are invited to enrichment programs.

If you are homebound, we are happy to make non-contact home deliveries. Call Ms. Delonda at 270-237-3861 if you need this service.

New books for children include: Brand-New Bubbe by Sarah Aronson, The Best Gift for Bear by Jennifer A. Bell, A Grand Day by Jean Reidy, Hey, Bruce! by Ryan T. Higgins, Granny and Bean by Karen Hesse, In the Neighborhood by Rocio Bonilla, Loud Mouse by Cara Mentzel and Idina Menzel, Fall Friends by Mike Curato, The Mermaid Moon by Briony May Smith, Sidney: The Lonely Cloud by Tim Hopgood, Judy Moody In a Monday Mood by Megan McDonald, Tiana’s Cookbook by Disney Press, One Winter Up North by John Owens, Concrete: From the Ground Up by Larissa Theule and National Park: A to Z Adventure from Acadia to Zion by Gus D’Angelo.

New books for young adults include: The Getaway by Lamar Giles, How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow, The Killing Code by Ellie Marney, Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus, Raising the Horseman by Serena Valentino, The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson, Unravel Me, Restore Me, Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi, Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros, and All of Our Demise by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Hermann

Thank you to the O’Neal family for donating: Livin’ On the Line: The O’Neals of Garretts Creek, Allen County, Kentucky, published by Carmen O’Neal, Contributors: Judy O’Neal, Rodney Carter, Lillia Mignaud, Ruby Holland, Donnie O’Neal, Stacie O’Neal, William Irwin, David Irwin and Jeremy Phagan, et al. Those interested in history, especially Allen County’s history, will appreciate this book.

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean, To Kill a Troubadour by Martin Walker, Wake by Shelley Burr, Bend Toward the Sun by Jen Devon, When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff, Sophie Go’s Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim, The Shadow Lily by Johanna Mo, Rules at the School by the Sea by Jenny Colgan, The Secret of Bow Lane by Jennifer Ashley The Manhattan Girls by Gill Paul, The Night Singer by Johanna Mo, The Forgotten Cottage by Courtney Ellis, The Space Between World by Micaiah Johnson, Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane, The Actual Star by Monica Byrne, The Making of Her by Bernadette Jiwa, The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson, As the Wicked Watch by Tamron Hall, All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty, and The War Librarian by Addison Armstrong.

New large-print books for adults include: Black Horse Mountain by Kinley Roby, The Good Old Boys by Elmer Kelton, Ghost Towns by Louis L’Amour, Elmer Kelton, et al., Murder through the English Post by Jessica Ellicott, Something Fishy This Way Comes by Gabby Allan, Death by Beach Read by Eva Gates, A Murder Yule Regret by Winnie Archer, Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, A Truth to Lie For by Anne Perry, Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark, Righteous Prey by John Sandford, The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin, The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston and Distant Thunder by Stuart Woods.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.

The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Toddlers are invited to Toddler Time on Wednesdays at 10:00 am. Parents may choose from three Pre-K Story Hours for their preschool-age child. We’ll offer the same program on Tuesday and  Thursday at 10:00 am and on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm. Call 270-237-3861 to reserve your child’s place. We will read the same book in each program. On Tuesday at 1:00 pm, Home-School children ages 5-12 are invited to enrichment programs.

School-age children are invited to Lego My Library on Saturday, October 15, at 11:00 am. Ms. Abby will have a building challenge ready for creative builders.

If you are homebound, we are happy to make non-contact home deliveries. Call Ms. Delonda at 270-237-3861 if you need this service.

Are you a crafter? If so, we’re offering tours and training for our Maker-Space on Thursday, October 20, and on Monday, October 24, at 5:00 pm. We have an embroidery machine, 3-D printer, button maker, and Cricut (electronic cutting machine) that can cut all sorts of designs from materials like vinyl, card stock, and iron-on transfers. Space is limited to 10 people, so call 270-237-3861 to register. Patrons must be trained before reserving the maker space.

New books for children include: This Pup is Stuck by Bob Shea & Brian Won, The Crayons Trick or Treat by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers, Scooby-Doo! Scooby’s Scary Christmas! Adapted by Lee Howard, For Your Smile by Loryn Brantz, Little Blue Truck Makes a Friend by Alice Schertle, If Animals Trick-or-Treated by Ann Whitford Paul, Little Good Wolf by Janet Stevens an dSusan Stevens Crummel, School is Whereever I am by Ellie Peterson, Gold! by David Shannon, Frozen: Ann, Elsa, and the Enchanting Holiday by Meredith Rusu, Hocus Pocus Spell Book by Eric Geron,  Hocus Pocus by A.W. Jantha and 1 2 3s of Kindness by Patrica Hegarty and Once Upone Another Time by James Riley.

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Red and Rose Solve a Murder by Laurien Berenson, The French House by Helen Ripp, Bookish People by Susan Coll, A Certain Darkness by Anna Lee Huber, Where the Sky Begins by Rhys Bowen, What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy, In All Good Faith by Liza Nash Taylor, Felonious Monk by William Kotzwinkle, Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews, First Comes Scandal by Julia Quinn, Stay Awake by Megan Goldin, Die Around Sundown by Mark Pryor, Long Gone by Joanna Schaffhausen, The Disappearance by Bentley Little, The Codebreaker’s Secret by Sara Ackermann, Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood, The Fixer Upper by Lauren Forsythe, Bark to the Future by Spencer Quinn, The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid, The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang, and The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie by Rachel Linden.

New non-fiction books include: Gun Digest 2023 edited by Philip P. Massaro, Her Honor: myLife on the Bench… by LaDoris hazard Cordell, Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo,  The God of the Way by Kathie Lee Gifford and Rabbi Jason Sobel, All of This A Memoir of Death and Desire by Rebecca Woolf, and Swerve or Die by Kyle Petter and Ellis Henican, Hometown Victory: A Coach’s Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home by Keanon Low with Justin Spizman, Life on the Mississippi: An EpicAmerican Adventure by Rinker Buck, Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden, and Path it by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.

The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Toddlers are invited to Toddler Time on Wednesdays at 10:00 am. Parents may choose from three Pre-K Story Hours for their preschool-age child. We’ll offer the same program on Tuesday and Thursday at 10:00 am and on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm. Call 270-237-3861 to reserve your child’s place. We will read the same book in each program. On Tuesday at 1:00 pm, Home-School children ages 5-12 are invited to enrichment programs.

School-age children are invited to Lego My Library on Saturday, October 15, at 11:00 am. Ms. Abby will have a building challenge ready for creative builders.

If you are homebound, we are happy to make non-contact home deliveries. Call Ms. Delonda at 270-237-3861 if you need this service.

For First Friday, on October 7 at 6:00 pm, families are invited to dress up as their favorite book characters. Stop by the library’s porch and have your picture made. There will be winners in each group. Representatives from the Heart of Scottsville will vote on their favorites. The first 10 book characters to stop by will be given a pumpkin.

Are you a crafter? If so, we’re offering tours and training for our Maker Space on Thursday, October 20, and on Monday, October 24, at 5:00 pm. We have an embroidery machine, 3-D printer, button maker, and Cricut (electronic cutting machine) that can cut all sorts of designs from materials like vinyl, card stock, and iron-on transfers. Space is limited to 10 people, so call 270-237-3861 to register. Patrons must be trained before reserving the maker space.

New books for children include: The Sea in the Way by Sophie Gilmore, A Spoonful of Frogs by Casey Lyall, Best Christmas Book Ever! by Richard Scarry, Magnolia Flower by Zora Neale Hurston, I Have a Superpower by Stephen Curry, How the Villains Ruined Christmas by Serena Valentino, Blood! Not Just a Vampire Drink by Stacy McAnulty, Come On In by Jamie Michalak, Books Aren’t For Eating by Carlie Sorosiak, I’m a Unicorn by Helen Yoon, Hello, Moon by Evan Turk, Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez & Gabriela Epstein, Crunch by Kayla Miller, Garlic & the Witch by Bree Paulsen, If You Read This by Kareen Getting, I Survived The Wellington Avalanche, 1910 by Lauren Tarshis, Amari and the Great Game by B. B. Alston, and Wildoak by C.C. Harrington,

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Suspect by Scott Turow, Treasure State by C.J. Box, Falling Stars by Fern Michaels, The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates, My Secret to Keep by Barbara Conry, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Found by Robert Dugoni, The Fossil Hunter by Tea Cooper, Recursion by Blake Crouch, Murder at Beacon Rock by Alyssa Maxwell, Pack of Lies by Charlie Adhara, Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins, Shutter by Ramona Emerson, I Remember You by Brian Freeman, The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith, Amy & Lan by Sadie Jones, Haven by Emma Donoghue, Small Angels by Lauren Owen, Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Dark Music by Davi Lagercrantz, Heart Breaker by Sarah MacLean, Sweetwater & The Witch by Kayne Ann Krentz, A Truth to Lie For by Anne Perry, and The Blame Game by Sandie Jones.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.