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 pre-school 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.
On Thursday, September 8 at 5:00 pm, Teens are invited to Teen Game Night.
New books for children this week include: The Little Bear by Nicola Killen, Whose Bones Are Those by Chihiro Takeuchi, To Find Treasure in the Mountain by Francine Rockey, A Little Ferry Tale by Chad Otis, Marvelous Body by Jane Wilsher & Andrés Lozano, Meet the Super Duper Seven by Tim Hamilton, The World Belonged to Us by Jacqueline Woodson, Literary Critters by Sophie Corrigan, Duet by Elise Broach, A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin, Sonny Says Sorry! by Caryl Hart, Sharks for Kids by David McGuire, How to Catch a Witch by Alice Walstead & Megan Joyce, The Bailey School Kids: Frankenstein Doesn’t Plant Petunias: A Graphic Novel by Pearl Low, Paola Santiago and the Sanctuary of Shadows by Tehlor Kay Mejia, and Poptropica: The Lost Expedition by Mitch Krpata.
New books on the adult fiction shelf include: Acts of Violence by Margarita Montimore, Paradise Girls by Sandy Gingras, A Haven for Her Heart by Susan Anne Mason, Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates, Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, Confidence by Denise Mina, Any Other Family by Eleanor Brown, Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier, The Lost Children by Shirley Dickson, Corinne by Rebecca Morrow, Walking in Tall Weeds by Robin Pearson, Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey, The Ninth Month by James Patterson, Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes, In the Middle of Hickory Lane by Heather Webber, and The Poet’s House by Jean Thompson.
New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: I’m Not Going Anywhere by Kelly Lang, Relativity: The Special & The General Theory 100th Anniversary Edition by Albert Einstein, I’d Like to Play Alone Please by Tom Segura, The Complete Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant Oversized Edition Illustrated by Ulysses S. Grant, The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London by Catherine Ostler, Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath by Bill Browder, and Lessons from the Edge by Marie Yovanovitch.
Have you downloaded the Hoopla app yet? Hoopla allows library patrons to stream digital movies and T.V. shows for free with your Allen County Public Library card. Download the Hoopla app, find our library, and sign up. Patrons may check out ten items per month from Hoopla with your library card.
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.