Week Calendar

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For $5 you can fill a Bloomington Library-provided brown bag with items from the Book Shop! This sale is only while supplies last and is limited to 1 bag per person.

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 September 13 - November 22, for a 30-minute, all-ages story time in Children's Program Rooms 1-2. We'll enjoy music, lots of movement, stories, and FUN!

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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.

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• 309.590.6120 (call)
• 309.446.8398 (text)

Find more information about the Bookmobile and schedule online.

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While adventuring in the bustling city of Sharn, your party is drawn into a tangled web of intrigue and danger.

Join us in the Children’s Department for classic board games, card games, and puzzles for children and their families. Red Raccoon Games will also be on hand to demonstrate how to play a variety of hand-picked games.

Join us in Children’s Program Room 1 to create a beaded bookmark.
(This craft contains smaller beads which could be a choking hazard for young children.)

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The Teen Genre Book Club will meet on the second Wednesday of each month to discuss a different genre of book, giving each teen a broader choice of the book(s) they choose to read.

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Learn how not to outlive your money and how taxes and inflation impact retirement. Discuss factors for successful money management and how to budget for economic change. Learn methods of tax avoidance and options of ta

Using the Bernette 70 Embroidery Machine in the library's Innovation Lab, teens will explore embroidery by machine as they create an image which will then be framed. Teens will first learn how to thread the machine and install the bobbin.

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:

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Mystery Book Club

The Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss Secret Lives by Mark De Castrique. Participants have the option to meet either in-person at Bloomington Public Library or o

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This world we live in is a stressful place and there are many factors that can have a negative impact on our daily lives. By befriending our mind, we can wipe the slate clean and detoxify our negative thought patterns to calm the body.

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