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Winter Reading Starts December 16th

December 6, 2019

Feed Your Need to Read: 12/16/2019 to 2/7/2020 Winter Reading will be starting a little earlier than usual this year on December 16th, so you should have plenty of time during your Winter Break to log your hours — especially if you will be travelling for the holidays. School Districts 47, 158, and 300 all start Winter Break on Saturday, […]

Hour of Code Week is Coming Up!

November 27, 2019

Hour of Code Week will take place from December 9th to 15th. This is a national initiative in computer science education — the week was formerly known as Computer Science Education Week. As Heidi Partovi, CEO of Code.org says, “The Hour of Code is designed to demystify code and show that computer science is not rocket science—anybody can learn the […]

Have you tried Kanopy?

November 6, 2019

Kanopy is a “thoughtful entertainment” streaming service for both adults and children. Kanopy is completely free with your library card — you just have to create an account using your email address upon first logging in. Kanopy supports a variety of documentary, indie, and foreign films but has popular titles as well. Kanopy Kids just added the complete Sesame Street […]

Read for the Record!

November 4, 2019

This Thursday, November 7 at 10:00am we will be doing a special storytime called Read for the Record! Read for the Record is a national literacy initiative from JumpStart Children First. The goal is to get as many kids & adults as possible to all read the same book on the same day. This year’s book will be the Caldecott […]

Halloween Storytimes

October 24, 2019

Our Halloween Storytime series begins tomorrow morning! We are so excited for this fun time of year! Take a look: Friday, October 25 – Baby (0-23 months old) Storytime at Harnish from 10:00-10:30am Saturday, October 26 – Family (all ages) Storytime at Harnish from 10:00-10:30am Tuesday, October 29 – Music & Movement at the Eastgate Branch from 11:30am-12:00pm Wednesday, October […]

Library Catalog Downtime This Weekend

October 16, 2019

Starting this Friday, October 18, all libraries (full list here) in the CCS Library Consortia will be operating in offline mode. This includes Cary, Crystal Lake, Fox River Valley, Huntley, & the McHenry libraries. Why? We are adding the Indian Trails Public Library District to the consortia. Indian Trails is located in Wheeling and once this process is complete, their […]

Chicago Bubble Show – CANCELLED

October 9, 2019

Due to reasons beyond the library’s control, we had to cancel the Chicago Bubble Show program that was originally scheduled for Wednesday, October 16. We are just as sad as you, since bubbles are awesome. 🙁

1001 Books Before Kindergarten Graduation

October 3, 2019

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 […]

Banned Books Week

September 26, 2019

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 […]

Family Fitness at the Library Loop

September 19, 2019

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 […]