Week Calendar

Enjoy books, songs, activities, and rhymes chosen especially for lap babies, beginning walkers, and their caregivers. Then stay and play with a variety of toys and everyday objects.   

Enjoy books, songs, activities, and rhymes chosen especially for toddlers. Then stay for a craft to help fine tune those fine motor skills.   

Storytimes will be offered in two 5-week sessions : 

The McHenry County Department of Health will be offering wellness screenings for cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, blood pressure, body mass analysis, A1C, and heart age assessment. Fasting is recommended but not required. 

Talk, read, write, play, and sing your way through learning with books, rhymes, flannel stories and activities. Then stay for a craft to help fine tune those fine motor skills.   

Join the Hollow Tree Spinners, a group of quilters and sewing enthusiasts, at the library for a fun and collaborative session. Come for the quilting but stay for the good times! 

Substance Use and Overdose Prevention Organization, Live4Lali is coming to the library to present its Narcan Training Course. Attendants will learn about opioids, the epidemic, and how Naloxone (Narcan) can save lives.

Versiti Blood Center will be holding a blood drive at the library. Donated blood will benefit area hospitals. All donors must show a photo ID prior to donating.

Need help using your new tablet or phone or downloading free ebooks or audiobooks? A tutorial on using Word to create a resume? WPL cardholders can now schedule a 1-on-1 technology appointment with WPL Librarian Austin Nord.

Families who speak, or are learning to speak, Spanish can enjoy stories, crafts, and songs at our Spanish-language storytime. This program is conducted entirely in Spanish.   

Volunteer genealogists from the Kishwaukee Trail Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will help prospective members with applications.

For centuries, we’ve known that the health of the brain and the body are connected. But now, science is able to provide insights into how to optimize our physical and cognitive health as we age.

Explore the world around you through different activities like making a musical instrument, using a compass, or even creating a book.  

Feeling frustrated in your family history progress? Join us at the library to hear about pitfalls to avoid and techniques to try.

The first picture postcards were published for the 1889 Paris Exposition, celebrating the completion of the Eiffel Tower.

Join Maya Camille Broussard, star of Netflix’s Bake Squad, and owner of Chicago based Justice of the Pies for a demo from her kitchen just in time for Thanksgiving.