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:

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!

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.

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

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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

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. 

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.

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. 

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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. 

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. 

Great for Mother's Day, Father's Day, or any day! Just drop in. 

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!

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

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.

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