The library is open to the public Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Tinker Time in our Maker Space is open every Friday at 2:00 pm. Register online for help with your projects, or stop by to explore the space and ask questions. Equipment includes a Poster Printer, Embroidery Machine, Cricut Vinyl Cutter, Ellison Die Cut Shapes, and more. Sign up today.
The library offers over six hundred free online courses in the following areas of study: accounting, alternative medicine, crafts & hobbies, business, career training, computer training, entrepreneurship, finance, health & medicine, homeschooling, language arts, law/legal/criminal, office skills, parenting & family, personal development, psychology, science, self-help, special education, spiritual studies, teacher resources, test preparation and writing skills. To learn more, visit our website www.allencountylibrary.com and click on “Free Online Classes.”
If you can’t make it to the library, you can download free e-books, audiobooks, and television shows if you have an active library card. Our digital library is always open. Download the Libby and Hoopla apps to access our digital materials. There are thousands of items from which to choose.
New books for children include: It’s Corn Picking Time by Jill Esbaum, Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles: A Curious Counting Book by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page, Zoom Out Natural World by Owen Davey, Daisy Rewilds by Margaret McNamara and Kerascoët, The Marvelous Now by Lorena Alvarez Gómez, The Moving Book by Lisa Brown, The Atlas of Languages: Words Around the World by Rachel Lancashire, Rima and the Painter by Leila Boukarim, Grumpy Monkey: School Stinks by Suzanne Lang, Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin, and How to Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing by Cressida Cowell.
New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Don’t Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine, Flashlight by Susan Choi, The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King, The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman, The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater, Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster by Gerri Willis, The Names by Florence Knapp, The Friendship Fling by Georgia Stone, Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown, Enlightenment by Sarah Perry, I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin by Katy Brent, So Far Gone by Jess Walter, The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick, Albion by Anna Hope.
New books for young adults include: Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Chainsaw Man #1 by Tatsuki Fujimoto, Chainsaw Man #2 by Tatsuki Fujimoto, and Ew, It’s Beautiful: A False Knees Comic Collection by Joshua Barkman.
New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer, Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Todd S. Purdum, Free Ride: Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My Life by Noraly Schoenmaker, and Attack From Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade.
Getting a free library card is easy. Call 270-237-3861 or visit us with a photo I.D. and recently postmarked mail. Once you have your card, a world of books, movies, and music will be at your fingertips. And remember, your voice matters. Let us know if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you’d like to see in our collection. We’re here to make your library experience the best it can be.