The library will be closed on Monday, January 16, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Unless it’s a holiday, 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.
Visit www.allencountylibrary.com and click on the events tab to register for any of the programs below, or call 270-237-3861.
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 Wednesday at 1:00 pm. 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. We hope you’ll make visiting the library a part of your weekly routine. Pre-reigstration is required for all children’s 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.
Prime Time Family Reading is a six-week reading, discussion, and storytelling program that starts on Thursday, February 2, 2023. We’ll serve a light meal at 5:00 pm, and at 5:30 pm, a university scholar and a storyteller (who act as discussion leaders) will conduct weekly storytelling and discussion sessions based on award-winning children’s picture books. Participants are elementary-age children and their families. Childcare will be provided for infants and toddlers. Call 270-237-3861 to register your family for this free program. Space is limited to ten families. The Kentucky Humanities Council and the Allen County Public Library provided funds for this program.
New books for children include: First Words by Scrabble, The Big Book of Who: Basketball by Sports Illustrated Kids, All the Insects of the World by David Opie, The Big Book of Who: Football by Sports Illustrated Kids, The Missing Notebook! by Louie Lazar and Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Waiting on Mr. Sloth by Katy Hudson, Deep, Deep Down: The Secret Underwater Poetry of the Mariana Trench by Lydia Lukidis, My First Book of Hindi Words by Rina Singh, Once Upon a Line by Elliot Kreloff, The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs by Andrea Pinnington & Caz Buckingham, Football GOATs by Bruce Berglund, The Weather Book by Lonely Planet Kids, and Soccer Encyclopedia by Clive Gifford.
New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Eden’s Children by V.C. Andrews, The Circus Train by Amita Parikh, The Widowmaker by Hannah Morrissey, The Key to My Heart by Lia Louis, Little Red House by Liv Anderson, So Long, Chester Wheeler by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Death on a Deadline by Joyce St. Anthony, Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen, We Knew All Along by Mina Hardy, A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne, All That We Were by Mariah Stewart, Death in the Margins by Victoria Gilbert, The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock, A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones, The Shaadi Set-up by Lillie Vale, Well Traveled by Jen DeLuca, and The Opportunist by Elyse Friedman,
New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: The Blue Zones American Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 by Dan Buettner, Born to Run2: The Ultimate Training Guide by Christopher McDougall & Eric Orton, Volunteers: Growing Up in the forever War: A Memoir by Jerad W. Alexander, and Fatty Fatty Boom Boom; A Memoir of Food, Fat & Family by Rabia Chaudry.
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.