AAPLD Staff Celebrate National Poetry Month Miss Nikki & Emma’s Easter craft Miss Lauren’s fabric mask maker craft Dav Pilkey at Home: You all probably know Dav Pilkey from the Dog Man or Captain Underpants books. He has started an “At Home” series and you should totally check it out. Princess Storytime Live from Happily Ever After Parties at 11:30am, […]
ALL of the blogs from the past week have focused on online resources to cope with the school & library closures due to CoVid-19. However, right before everything started shutting down the Association of Illinois School Library Educators announced their 2021 Bluestem Book Award List. Without further ado, here it is: The Ambrose Deception by Emily Ecton Three Chicago students, […]
Virtual Resources for Scouting Girls Scouts of Northern Illinois has set up a program where Girl Scout members may earn their badges from home. There are also resources on how to host a Girl Scout Troop meeting virtually using Zoom meetings. Materials are available in English and Spanish. Boy Scouts of America has also acknowledged that 58 of their merit […]
Things are coming in quickly! Everyone wants to help out, which is awesome. We were so bummed to have to cancel Homeschool Information Night, little did we know everyone would be doing school at home. We are ironing out our virtual storytime ideas still so stay tuned — there are a lot of details in the copyright laws of reproducing […]
Here are just a few of the many free online resources for students out of school. There is also always the Library’s regular online resources list, but you may need your library card number to access the paid-for resources. All of these below are currently free! Preschool PBSkids.com Scholastic Starfall Education TumbleBooks Storytime: check out our earlier blog post Elementary […]
Jodi Koplin will be hosting a Facebook livestream of JiggleJam from 10am-10:30am (CNT) on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. If you like AAPLD’s Music & Movement storytimes, this is perfect for you! Miss Jodi works with Chicago area libraries and is a local children’s performer. Have your instruments ready at home to play along! If you have song requests, please send […]
We will still be circulating materials via the drive-thru window at the Harnish Main location from 9 am – 5 pm Mondays through Saturdays, and Sundays from 12 pm – 5 pm. If you or someone in your household is sick, please do not return materials; call to have your loan period extended. Are the buildings open? No. At this […]
In the interest of public health, we are cancelling all of our programs starting the night of Thursday, March 12 and going until Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Given the recommendation of social distancing to slow the spread of CoVid-19, the library is taking the preventative and proactive measure of cancelling all programming from March 13-31. There are no known cases […]
On Tuesday, March 10, 2020 it was announced that one individual in McHenry County and one individual in Kane County tested positive for COVID-19 (aka The Coronavirus). On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 the superintendent of School District 300 released a statement announcing the closure of Dundee Crown High School and Perry Elementary School. The Algonquin Area Public Library District includes […]
The Harnish Library will be open from 9:00am to 9:00pm on Monday, Februrary 17, 2020. The Eastgate Library will be open from 10:00am to 8:00pm. Happy President’s Day!
