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BiblioBag Sign-Up

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:
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!

Check back for a sign-up link beginning Monday, April 22.

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.
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IN LIBRARY Adult Craft Class: Painted Flower Pot

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Get ready for spring (and celebrate the launch of the library's very exciting Seed Library) by unleashing your creativity and painting your own flower pot. Materials will be provided.

Registration is required and Glencoe residents will have priority if the class fills up. This class is being offered twice—please only sign up for one date and time. For adults and teens.

To register for the Friday, March 15 session at 2pm, click HERE.

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IN LIBRARY American Diamond: Baseball, Pop Culture, and Our National Myths

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Baseball is the national pastime--on the field and in entertainment. No other sport has inspired so much literature, poetry, film, music and performance. In this rollicking, humorous presentation, James Finn Garner will explore the historic and literary reasons driving this phenomenon and how the internet continues the tradition today. Garner, best known for his New York Times bestseller Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, also runs the fan-driven poetry/doggerel website Bardball.com.

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IN LIBRARY Adult Craft Class: Paper Flower Bouquet

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Create a delicate tissue paper flower arrangement out of fallen branches to give to a loved one or brighten a corner of your home or office. Materials will be provided.

Registration is required and Glencoe residents will have priority if the class fills up. This class is being offered twice—please only sign up for one date and time. For adults and teens.

To register for the Monday, April 15 session at 6:30pm, click HERE.

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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Registration is open

IN LIBRARY Adult Craft Class: Paper Flower Bouquet

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Create a delicate tissue paper flower arrangement out of fallen branches to give to a loved one or brighten a corner of your home or office. Materials will be provided.

Registration is required and Glencoe residents will have priority if the class fills up. This class is being offered twice—please only sign up for one date and time. For adults and teens.

To register for the Friday, April 12 session at 2pm, click HERE.

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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IN LIBRARY Adult Craft Class: Macrame Market Bag

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Glencoe Public Library
Hammond Room
Get ready for farmer's market season and macrame a handy mesh bag to carry home fresh produce or other seasonal odds and ends. Materials will be provided.

Registration is required and Glencoe residents will have priority if the class fills up. This class is being offered twice—please only sign up for one date and time. For adults and teens.

To register for the Monday, May 20 session at 6:30pm, click HERE.

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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