Week Calendar

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Join us for Lego Construction, and have your picture taken with your creation. The challenge is to build whatever you want!

Itsy Arts with the Illinois Art Station offers hands-on, transformative artmaking for young artists (age 2-5 years) and their families.

Join us at Lapsit Story Time for stories, music, movement, and play intended to help develop and enhance early literacy skills and your baby's development.

Toddlers are always on the go! Come to story time to encourage their emerging skills with books, rhymes, music, and lots of movement activities.

Join us every Friday from January 17-February 28, for a 30-minute, all-ages story time in Children's Program Room. We'll enjoy music, lots of movement, stories, and FUN!

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The Freedom Oil Bookmobile Stop has permanently moved to Viking Brews. 

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This inclusive story time offers stories, songs, and sensory-focused activities for children of all ages and abilities! After story time, stay for sensory play and socialization.

Following our weekly Fun Friday Story Time (begins at 10am), these love-themed activities will be available in the Children’s Department:

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In A Ship in the Mist, the players are hired to recover a lost skyship known as the Sky Scythe and retrieve an experimental artifact called the Veil of Aramis.

Join us in the Children’s Department for classic board games, card games, and puzzles for children and their families.

Are you a teen who's over the romance and the sappiness of Valentine's Day? Are you ready to celebrate the "day of love" being over? Then join us in Community Rooms 1-3 for an afternoon of No Romance and UnValentine activities.

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Calling all knights of the square table! Come to the Children's Department for an informal chess drop-in event. All levels of chess skills are welcome! Bring a friend to play with or come to meet a new checkmate (Ha ha!

Teens and adults will learn how to sew small, quilted hearts. The library will provide participants with an assortment of fabrics, sewing tools, and thread.

Calling culinary enthusiasts! Join us in exploring the book In Bibi's Kitchen by Hawa Hassan.

Join us at Lapsit Story Time for stories, music, movement, and play intended to help develop and enhance early literacy skills and your baby's development.

This program pairs trained and certified therapy dogs with children in Grades K-5 who want to practice reading aloud.

There will be 4 time slots available for kids to meet and read to a pup in the Children's Department:

The Teen Genre Book Club will meet monthly to discuss a different genre of book, giving you more choice of what to read. Pick any book that fits the month's genre.

Are you looking for a book club without assigned reading?
Do you need a peaceful hour with a good book?

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The Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver. Participants have the option to meet either in person at Bloomington Public Library or online via Zoom. 

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