Thursday, October 3, 2019 Graduation Ceremony Tonight we welcome 8 more children (2 not pictured) into our 1001 Books Before Kindergarten alumni group! Congratulations on reading 1001 BOOKS! AAPLD has participated in 100 Books Before Kindergarten since 2013 and has over 700 participants. An Algonquin card is required for this program (It should start with 21488). If you don’t […]
A Quick History… Banned Books Week was launched in the 1980s by the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom. The 80s were a time of increased challenges, organized protests, and the Island Trees School District v. Pico (1982) Supreme Court case, which ruled that school officials can’t ban books in libraries simply because of their content. Books are still […]
Join us for the Library Loop 5K on Sunday, October 27. The race will begin and end at the Algonquin Area Public Library, located at 2600 Harnish Drive in Algonquin, IL. Registration closes at 7:45am and the race begins promptly at 8 am. For our third annual race, we wanted to go bigger and better, which is why the race […]
Our Reading Patch Club is back for the 2019-2020 school year! This reading program was designed for K-8th grade students (if you’re currently participating in 1001 Books Before Kindergarten, this is not for you — yet!). All you need is your Algonquin Area Public Library card. This year we have new Patch Club bags, which you can earn after completing […]
This September we are doing something new for Library Card Sign-Up Month! Your Algonquin library card will act as a coupon card at select Algonquin businesses from September 1st to 30th. A complete list of business and their respective deals can be found here. The design on the card does not matter, as long as it is a card from […]
Get your IAR practice tests now! The IAR test has replaced the PARCC test (which replaced the ISAT test). Lucky for you, we have all available practice test booklets in our Homework Center Collection. We even still have our old ISAT and PARCC test prep books too. For more IAR online resources and online practice tests, head over to the […]
We had a lot of summer fun, but it is back to business now that school is in session again. Join us next Thursday, August 22nd for Using the Digital Library for Homework. We have a TON of resources available online 24/7 (even after the library is closed!) that many people just don’t know about. Did you know that your […]
Our two youth book discussion groups will now be open to everyone, regardless of an Algonquin library card. We want everyone to read! Our book discussions meet the second Thursday of every month from 7-8pm. Everyone reads the same book over the month and then talk about it while munchin’ on some snacks. Some months you will check out the […]
Celebrate 20 years of SpongeBob SquarePants at the Eastgate Branch Library tomorrow! There will be yellow and square fun all throughout Wednesday, July 17th. Then at 6pm sharp, Eastgate will host a special showing of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie complete with popcorn and candy – register here. Be here or be square!
Because of the holiday week, we will not be holding Book Buddies this week. Too many people end up on vacation, which is why we have historically never held Book Buddies around Independence Day. This information has been posted since April 2019 on the promotional materials, information sheets, & all types of registration forms (paper and digital), but just another […]
