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.
Pre-school children are invited to participate in our Trick-or-Treat Parade on Friday, October 31, at 10:00 am. All children must be accompanied by an adult. The Scottsville Police Department will assist us as we visit downtown businesses. Thank you to the police department and the participating downtown merchants. You make us Scottsville Proud.
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 this week include: Go, Go, Dodo! by Huw Lewis Jones and Fred Blunt, Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore, Hank Meets Frank by Maudie Powell-Tuck and Duncan Beedie, I Am We: How Crows Come Together to Survive by Lesie Barnard Booth, If We Were Dogs by Sophie Blackatt, Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan, My Grandma and Grandpa Rock! by Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, My Sister the Apple Tree: A Refugee Story of Hope and Resilience by Jordan Scott and Jamal Saeed, and Out of the Sun: A Poem for the Land’s First Peoples by Zelena González.
New books for young adults include: George’s Fateful D-Day by David Brayley, Juvenile by Jesus Orellana, K-Jane by Lydia Kang, How Far I’ll Go by Keala Kendall, This Book Won’t Burn by Samira Ahmed, The Taylors Version Love Stories by Elizabeth Fulbert, and Fall I Want by Lyla Parish.
New books on the adult fiction shelf include: The Incredible Kindness of Paper by Evelyn Skye, The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfusco, The Man with No Shadow by Bonnie Quinn, One Dark Night by Hannah Richell, Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza, The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen, Love Arranged by Lauren Asher, There’s Pumpkin About You by Athena Carstairs, Joy Moody is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne, The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold by Ally Carter, Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein, I Know How This Ends by Holly Smalem, The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong, The Dare by Natasha Preston, Five Golden Wings by Donna Andrews, and And To All a Good Bite by David Rosenfelt.
New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, The Book of Sheen by Charlie Sheen, The Modern Pioneer Pantry: A Complete Guide to Preserving Food by Mary Bryant Shrader, The Carb Reset: Store Less Fat, Burn the Rest, and Harness the Power of Carbs to Lose Weight by Harley Pasternak, MSc, and Guiness World Records 2026.
Getting a free library card is easy. Call 270-237-3861 or visit us with a photo ID 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.