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Toddler Storytime

10:00am - 10:30am
Storytime
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Children's Programming Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Stories, rhymes, songs, and movement for toddlers ages 18-36 months and their caregivers. No registration required. 

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to enjoy this program together with your child. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Photo permission

Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please tell a library staff member and the library will honor that request.

Adult Coloring

1:30pm - 3:30pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Group Study Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Come share your love of coloring and join us in adult coloring for relaxation! We'll provide drinks, coloring pages, and colored pencils. Free to attend. 

Microfilm Tutor Hours

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Technology
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology
Event Details:

Learn how to use our new microfilm machines! Make an appointment at the Reference Desk or call 309-343-6118.

Movie Club

4:45pm - 8:00pm
Movie
Library Branch: Off Site - AMC Theater
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

Outing to the AMC Galesburg to see the movie The Fall Guy. We'll head to a restaurant afterwards for discussion. You will pay for your own ticket and food/drink.

Baby Bounce

9:15am - 10:00am
Storytime
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Children's Programming Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Stories, songs, sign language, and bounces for kids ages 0-18 months old and their caregivers. No registration required.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to enjoy this program together with your child. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Photo permission

Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please tell a library staff member and the library will honor that request.

Adult System of Care Coordinator Available

1:30pm - 4:30pm
Health & Wellness
Cancelled
Registration
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Study Room A (Red Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Jamie Stark, the Adult System of Care Coordinator from Bridgeway, is available to meet one on one with community members and direct them to the appropriate services to meet their needs.

Food for Thought Book Discussion

11:30am - 12:30pm
Book Club
Library Branch: Off Site: Cornucopia Natural Market and Deli
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes is an inspiring portrait of tending to a honeybee hive, capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning a new way of being in the world.

Friends of the Library Meeting

5:30pm - 7:30pm
Friends of the Library
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: F&M Bank Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Friends of the Library
Event Details:

The Friends of the Library will meet to discuss accepting book donations and plan for their book sale. 

Virtual Book Discussion

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Book Club
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

Join a virtual discussion of Wild New World by Dan Flores. The title will be available to download for anyone using the Libby app from May 9-23.

Closed

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Galesburg Public Library

Microfilm Tutor Hours

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Technology
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology
Event Details:

Learn how to use our new microfilm machines! Make an appointment at the Reference Desk or call 309-343-6118.

Baby Bounce

9:15am - 10:00am
Storytime
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Children's Programming Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Stories, songs, sign language, and bounces for kids ages 0-18 months old and their caregivers. No registration required.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to enjoy this program together with your child. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Photo permission

Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please tell a library staff member and the library will honor that request.

Adult System of Care Coordinator Available

1:30pm - 4:30pm
Health & Wellness
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Study Room A (Red Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:

Jamie Stark, the Adult System of Care Coordinator from Bridgeway, is available to meet one on one with community members and direct them to the appropriate services to meet their needs.

Free movie: The Color Purple

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Movie
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

Free showing of The Color Purple, a musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s. (140 min., rated PG-13, ©Warner Brothers)

Adult System of Care Coordinator Available

9:00am - 12:00pm
Health & Wellness
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Study Room A (Red Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:

Jamie Stark, the Adult System of Care Coordinator from Bridgeway, is available to meet one on one with community members and direct them to the appropriate services to meet their needs.

Tome Raiders Book Discussion

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Book Club
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

Years ago, bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was assigned to contain a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He buried it in cold storage deep underground. Now, the specimen has found its way out.

Summer Storytime

10:00am - 10:30am
Storytime, Summer Reading
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Children's Programming Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime, Summer Reading
Event Details:

Stories, songs, and movement, geared toward kids ages 5 and under with an adult.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to enjoy this program together with your child. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Photo permission

Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please tell a library staff member and the library will honor that request.

Duke Otherwise Family Concert

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Music, Performance, Summer Reading
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Music, Performance, Summer Reading
Event Details:

Kick off our Summer Reading Program with a free concert by Madison-based family musician Duke Otherwise.

Disclaimer(s)

Photo permission

Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please tell a library staff member and the library will honor that request.

Microfilm Tutor Hours

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Technology
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology
Event Details:

Learn how to use our new microfilm machines! Make an appointment at the Reference Desk or call 309-343-6118.

Baby Bounce

9:15am - 10:00am
Storytime
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Children's Programming Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Stories, songs, sign language, and bounces for kids ages 0-18 months old and their caregivers. No registration required.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to enjoy this program together with your child. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Photo permission

Staff often take pictures during library programs. The library uses photos in its publicity, in social media, and on its website. If you do not want your photo used, please tell a library staff member and the library will honor that request.

Adult System of Care Coordinator Available

1:30pm - 4:30pm
Health & Wellness
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Study Room A (Red Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:

Jamie Stark, the Adult System of Care Coordinator from Bridgeway, is available to meet one on one with community members and direct them to the appropriate services to meet their needs.

Family Film: WALL-E

2:00pm - 3:30pm
Movie, Summer Reading
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Children's Programming Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Movie, Summer Reading
Event Details:

Join us for a showing of a family-friendly movie that relates to our Summer Reading theme: Read, Renew, Repeat! Free and open to kids of all ages and their caregivers. Children under age 8 must be accompanied by an adult. 

Craft & Chat

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Galesburg Public Library
Room: Group Study Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Bring your current craft project to work on and make new friends. All skill levels are encouraged to come!