Join us for a selection of our best items: Hard and paperback books, puzzles, videos, CD's, magazines and more. Many materials for all ages. Now accepting all major credit cards!
Join us for a selection of our best items: Hard and paperback books, puzzles, videos, CD's, magazines and more. Many materials for all ages. Now accepting all major credit cards!
New to computers? This hands-on class covers parts of the computer, opening and closing of computer programs, using the mouse, and saving information. Please call 232-1110 to register.
Visit the Tech Station to get hands-on experience with an iPad, Surface RT, Kindle HD, or Nexus 7! You can also learn about the free music, digital magazines, ebooks, and online classes you can get with your library card.
Sensory storytime combines books, songs, movement, and therapeutic activities to stimulate all five senses and promote learning. If your child has difficulty sitting through one of the librarys other storytimes, this inclusive program of stories, songs and activities may be just what you are looking for!
Families of boys and girls in grades K-5 are invited to participate in special activities based on Dr. Seuss books in honor of his birthday. Please register your family online or call Youth Services at 232-1115. Come try some green eggs and ham and get your picture taken with the Cat in the Hat!
Co-Sponsored by the Friends of the Vigo County Public Library and the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana. Giveaways and Girl Scout membership information will also be available.
Join us for stories, songs, finger-plays and crafts! Created for young people 3-5 years with their caregivers and parents. Registration required, call 232-1115.
Come explore at storytime as we listen to stories, sing rhymes and participate in other fun early literacy activities. There will be an optional 15 minute play time immediately following the 30 minute storytime. This event is designed for children age 18-36 months and their caregivers.
Join us for fun and educational activities designed to create awareness, understanding, and appreciation for those with special needs. Today Gina Hope will bring her therapy dog named Franklin to show you how he helps her to be able to stand up and walk. She trained him herself! Register online or call Youth Services @ 232-1115.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Vigo County Public Library
Learn how to play chess or test your skills in a game with an experienced chess player! The VCPL Chess Club is open to all ages and skill levels. No registration is required. Call Youth Services for more information, 232-1115.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Vigo County Public Library.
Join us for stories, songs, finger-plays and crafts! Created for young people 3-5 years with their caregivers and parents. Registration required, call 232-1115.
Bring the baby and enjoy stories, songs and fingerplays designed for children age 0-17 months and their caregivers. There will be an optional 15 minute play time immediately following the 30 minute storytime.
More practice for those new to computers. You will learn about Folders and Files, the Recycle Bin, and saving documents. Please call 232-1110 to register.
Fun, interactive stories, songs, and fingerplays for toddlers and their caregivers. There will be an optional 15 minute play time immediately following the 30 minute storytime. This event is designed for ages 18-36 months.
Stop by to get hands-on with an iPad, Surface RT, Kindle Fire HD, or Nexus 7! You can also learn about free music, digital magazines, ebooks, and online classes using your library card.
Join us for an interactive storytime with books, songs, rhymes, musical instruments and more! Children ages 0-2 will be from 10-10:30 and children ages 3-5 will be from 11-11:30.
This beginning class covers creating and saving documents and includes working with text and spell checking in Microsoft Word 2010. Participants should be familiar with a computer keyboard and possess basic typing skills. Call 232-1110 for registration.
Did you recently get an iPad? Want to learn more about the basics or how to download free ebooks from the library? This class is for you. Registration required. Please call 232-1110 to register.
Join us Fridays at 10 a.m. for Music Makers storytime, a program filled with movement, instruments, and rhyming fingerplays! Children will develop preliteracy skills through interactive activities! Fun for children 0-5 and their participating adult! No registration required.
Artists from the River City Art Association and the Wabash Valley Art Guild will be featured in an exhibit of works inspired by this year's Wabash Valley Big Read selection. Tarkington creates a picture of a family wrapped in cultural and technological changes. Today's artists, themselves trained observers, have created works that tell visual stories of what lies beneath the words of this Pulitzer prize winning work. Refreshments will be offered.
Hear from area legislators about the initiatives of the 2014 Indiana General Assembly. If time allows there will be a public question and answer time following the remarks.
