Library Events – Page 8 – Algonquin Area Public Library

Get a Pint for a Pint

July 7, 2016 Adult programs, Community Events, Library Events

Give back to your community and give blood in July! AAPLD will host a Heartland Blood Center blood drive on Monday, July 25 from 3 to 7pm in the Harnish Main Library Meeting Room. Did you know that blood donations […]

5th Annual Student Art Exhibit

April 12, 2016 Community Events, Library Events, Library News, Youth

In April 2016, the Village of Algonquin’s 5th annual Student Art Exhibit took over the Harnish Main Library. Organized by the Village’s Public Arts Commission, the exhibit featured 90+ artworks created by local middle school students in various different media, […]

National Library Week April 10-16

March 31, 2016 All Ages, Family, Library Events

Celebrate everything libraries and library staff do for their community! Your library provides access to books, DVDs, online resources, vocational training, study rooms, technology programs, crafting workshops and more. Libraries offer opportunity to all. Libraries transform. First sponsored in 1958, […]

Celebrate May in AAPLD’s Teaching Garden

March 1, 2016 Adult Classes, Community Events, Library Events, Library News

Spring is here…and so is our new Teaching Garden at the Harnish Main Library! With four raised beds, each planted with a unique garden plot, the Teaching Garden will be an active outdoor learning laboratory. It will offer learning, gardening, and programming […]

Create It At Your Library

February 23, 2016 Library Events, Young Adult

Harnish Library is hosting a unique week for high school students March 6-12. From an opportunity to check out the Library’s new vinyl cutter to a program where you can upcycle pop can tabs into a cool bracelet, you can […]

Interactive Movie Event

February 10, 2016 Library Events, Youth

On Friday, February 19, from 7 to 9:30pm, don’t miss the opportunity to sing, dance, and participate with the characters in the move Home. Make it a group event or a night out with the family! Register today. Oh, a cute alien […]

Donate Blood & Save a Life

January 21, 2016 Library Events

On February 22 from 3 to 7pm, the Algonquin Area Public Library District will host a blood drive at the Harnish Main Library, 2600 Harnish Drive (west of Randall Road). This blood drive is conducted in partnership with Heartland Blood […]

Get Your ACT Practice @ the Library

January 14, 2016 Library Events, Library News, Teens

Saturday, January 30 at Harnish / Saturday, February 6 @ Eastgate. Student in grades 10-12 can practice taking the ACT with a Sylvan Learning testing proctor. Your $15 registration fee includes the test, study guide, and detailed score report. Doors […]

Without a Mask: Hockey’s Daredevil Goalies

January 12, 2016 Adult programs, Library Events, Teens

Tuesday, January 26, 7-8:30 pm: Wooden sticks, shabby equipment and goalies who didn’t wear facemasks made up the the rough-and-tumble days of early hockey. And you thought Corey Crawford was tough! Don’t miss this action-packed presentation filled with glory, guts […]

Be a part of winter reading!

December 18, 2015 All Ages, Library Events

Monday, January 18–Monday, February 29. Love your library this winter and participate in our Winter Reading Program “We Love Reading”! Readers of all ages can celebrate their love of reading and earn prizes, enter drawings, and more! We’ll kick it off […]