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BiblioBag Sign-Up
Monday, April 22, 2024
Friday, May 10, 2024
Glencoe Public Library
Sign up for our quarterly BiblioBag and enjoy the spring air with custom-picked books (and DVDs, if you so choose) and a few bookish treats and goodies.
How It Works:
How It Works:
Step 1: Sign up online or in person using the form below between April 22 and May 10.
Step 2: Glencoe’s fabulous librarians will pick the best books for you and check them out to you with other fun goodies.
Step 3: Come check out your BiblioBag beginning May 20, find your favorite garden chair, and discover your new favorite books!
Sign up for a BiblioBag here: tinyurl.com/GPLQR-BiblioBagSignUp
Open to teens (grades 9+) and adults. Please note that you must have an active library card to check out a BiblioBag. Quantities are limited, and priority will be given to GPL cardholders.
Tales for Tots
Thursday, April 25, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
All ages with caregiver
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Join us for books, songs, and more to build early literacy skills, then stick around after stories to play and socialize.
Stories: 10:30-11
Play: 11-11:30
Just drop in! Space may be limited by room capacity.
Registration is open
Lego Builders
Thursday, April 25, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Grades 1-6
Do you love Lego and using your imagination? We'll bring out our GIANT stash of Lego pieces for an awesome building challenge! Registration required.
Lego classes are supported by the Janet Hauser Fund
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Do you love Lego and using your imagination? We'll bring out our GIANT stash of Lego pieces for an awesome building challenge! Registration required.
Lego classes are supported by the Janet Hauser Fund
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IN LIBRARY Big Books / Buddenbrooks
Thursday, April 25, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Thomas Mann’s first and most popular novel, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901), traces a patrician family's decline during the years of German unification. Mann's novel required him to be, as Rainer Maria Rilke observed, both a chronicler, “the calm and unexcited reporter of events” in the lives of four generations of a family, and a poet, one able “to imbue many figures with convincing vitality, with warmth and substance.” The discussion will be guided by returning leader Joseph Alulis of the University of Chicago’s Graham School.
REGISTER HERE for this in-library program. The class will meet on Thursdays, April 18 through May 23, in the library's Hammond Room. Please note that the May 9 session will take place in the Forte Room due to overlap with another library program.
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Time for Twos
Friday, April 26, 2024
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Ages 2-3 with caregiver (Child must be 2 on or before October 1, 2023)
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Ready to get hands-on? Join us for stories and creative activities connected to that week's stories. This class is aimed at children who have not yet entered 3 year old preschool.
Registration is open
Little Travelers
Friday, April 26, 2024
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Grade 1 and 2
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Learn with friends while traveling around the world! We will read a picture book about a different country each session, learn some facts and create a passport stamp for a passport book to take home, plus a country activity or craft. Register for one or more.
Toddler Time
Monday, April 29, 2024
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Ages 12-24 months with caregiver
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Join us for stories, songs and play for active little ones. Our 30-minute storytime is followed by time for play and socializing. Just drop in!
Baby Time
Monday, April 29, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Babies birth - 14 months with caregiver
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Build early literacy skills with songs, rhymes, bounces, and books while enjoying the company of other babies and caregivers!
Stories and more: 11-11:30
Stay and Play: 11:30-12
Stories and more: 11-11:30
Stay and Play: 11:30-12
Tales for Tots
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
All ages with caregiver
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Join us for books, songs, and more to build early literacy skills, then stick around after stories to play and socialize.
Stories: 10:30-11
Play: 11-11:30
Just drop in! Space may be limited by room capacity.
Tales for Tots
Thursday, May 02, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
All ages with caregiver
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Join us for books, songs, and more to build early literacy skills, then stick around after stories to play and socialize.
Stories: 10:30-11
Play: 11-11:30
Just drop in! Space may be limited by room capacity.
Registration is open
IN LIBRARY Nonfiction Group: Master Slave Husband Wife
Thursday, May 02, 2024
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Judy Levin will lead a discussion of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo. All are welcome. This program will take place in the Hammond Room on the mezzanine level of the library. Register as soon as possible so that the library can locate a copy of the book for you.
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Crafternoons
Thursday, May 02, 2024
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
All Ages, Under 8 with an adult
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What could be better than a lazy crafternoon? Create your own crafts out of a wide variety of materials, ranging from the everyday to the entirely unexpected.
IN LIBRARY Big Books / Buddenbrooks
Thursday, May 02, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Thomas Mann’s first and most popular novel, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901), traces a patrician family's decline during the years of German unification. Mann's novel required him to be, as Rainer Maria Rilke observed, both a chronicler, “the calm and unexcited reporter of events” in the lives of four generations of a family, and a poet, one able “to imbue many figures with convincing vitality, with warmth and substance.” The discussion will be guided by returning leader Joseph Alulis of the University of Chicago’s Graham School.
REGISTER HERE for this in-library program. The class will meet on Thursdays, April 18 through May 23, in the library's Hammond Room. Please note that the May 9 session will take place in the Forte Room due to overlap with another library program.
Want to receive the library's email newsletter? Brief-and-breezy GPL Weekly delivers library news--with handy program registration links--to your inbox every Monday morning.
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Time for Twos
Friday, May 03, 2024
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Ages 2-3 with caregiver (Child must be 2 on or before October 1, 2023)
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Ready to get hands-on? Join us for stories and creative activities connected to that week's stories. This class is aimed at children who have not yet entered 3 year old preschool.
IN LIBRARY Book News
Friday, May 03, 2024
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Join us for refreshments and a bouquet of staff reviews of this spring’s best fiction and nonfiction titles. The reviewers will be Sara, Matthew, Allie and Jake. This GPL tradition is a wonderful way to build your beach reading list!
Parking around the library can be tricky in the afternoons, so plan on coming early, parking in the commuter lots, or walking if possible. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. A recording of the program will be available on the library's YouTube channel within a few days.
Want to receive the library's email newsletter? Brief-and-breezy GPL Weekly delivers library news--with handy program registration links--to your inbox every Monday morning.
Registration is open
Beading Bonanza Junior
Friday, May 03, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Grades K-3
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Create custom bracelets, necklaces, or keychains. Decorate wooden beads or choose from our selection of beautiful beads. Make them for yourself or trade with friends.
Registration required
May the FOURTH be with you!
Saturday, May 04, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Suggested for Ages 3+ with Adult
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Star Wars fans - join us to celebrate and May the FOURTH be with you! Follow a special scavenger hunt, build a lightsaber, learn how to levitate, create Yoda ears, play Star Wars trivia and more.
Just drop in
Celebration Cards & Crafts
Sunday, May 05, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Suggested for ages 3+ with adult
Create a card or gift for a special person in your life. Customize greeting cards or fold unique and useful corner bookmarks for your favorite readers.
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Create a card or gift for a special person in your life. Customize greeting cards or fold unique and useful corner bookmarks for your favorite readers.
Great for Mother's Day, Father's Day, or any day! Just drop in.
Toddler Time
Monday, May 06, 2024
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Ages 12-24 months with caregiver
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Join us for stories, songs and play for active little ones. Our 30-minute storytime is followed by time for play and socializing. Just drop in!
Baby Time
Monday, May 06, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Babies birth - 14 months with caregiver
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Build early literacy skills with songs, rhymes, bounces, and books while enjoying the company of other babies and caregivers!
Stories and more: 11-11:30
Stay and Play: 11:30-12
Stories and more: 11-11:30
Stay and Play: 11:30-12
Registration is open
Little Bookworms Get Graphic!
Monday, May 06, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Grades 1-2
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Read and share favorite graphic novels and discuss what you love and why. Each week we'll read one graphic book together and do a book-connected activity. No reading assignments, just fun!
Registration required. Register for one or more.
Registration required. Register for one or more.
Tales for Tots
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
All ages with caregiver
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Join us for books, songs, and more to build early literacy skills, then stick around after stories to play and socialize.
Stories: 10:30-11
Play: 11-11:30
Just drop in! Space may be limited by room capacity.
VIRTUAL The Many Lives of Kal Penn
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Virtual
Join us for an entertaining evening with Kal Penn: actor, writer, producer, and former Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Penn released his first book, You Can't Be Serious, in 2021. In 2023, he wrapped production on the climate change docuseries, Getting Warmer with Kal Penn, a new comedy, Surina & Mel, and has taken two turns behind the desk of The Daily Show following the departure of host Trevor Noah.
REGISTER HERE for this Zoom program. A recording will be available for a limited time on the Illinois Libraries Present YouTube channel, and a link will be emailed to all registrants.
Originally from New Jersey, Kal Penn has an undergraduate degree in sociology, theater, film, and television from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a graduate certificate in international security from Stanford University. He has taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for starring roles in Designated Survivor, House, The Namesake, the Harold & Kumar franchise, and much more.
From 2009 to 2011, Penn took a sabbatical from acting to serve as the President’s Liaison to Young Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the Arts community. He worked on a range of issues, including the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the Affordable Care Act, arts and culture programs, and the DREAM Act. In 2012, he was a co-chair for the Obama/Biden re-election campaign and served on the President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities.
This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).
Registration is open
IN LIBRARY Wednesday Fiction Group: Hang the Moon
Wednesday, May 08, 2024
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Judy Levin will lead a discussion of Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls. All are welcome. This program will take place in the Hammond Room on the mezzanine level of the library. Register as soon as possible so that the library can locate a copy of the book for you.
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