The annual Children’s Summer Reading Program at the Iowa City Public Library runs from Sunday, June 5-Sunday, July 31, 2011. Sign up at Children’s Day on Sunday, June 5 or at the Children’s Desk anytime the Library is open and receive task sheets, stickers, bookmarks, and more. Complete 15 tasks, have an adult sign your [...]

Get them while they last! Items from the Children’s Multimedia Collection (computer games) are $1 each at The Book End! The BookEnd store on the library’s second floor is open Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday Noon-4 p.m. Sales at The Book End directly benefit the Children’s Summer Reading Program, Teen Summer [...]

Join us for “Exploring and Saving Iowa’s Rivers” Monday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., Meeting Room A, Iowa City Public Library Members of Project Aware (A Watershed Awareness River Expedition) and the IVRCD (Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development) will be here to discuss two great river events happening this summer: The 9th Annual Project AWARE [...]

Iowa City Public Library staff and volunteers invite you to join them in sponsoring a very special BOOKMARKS statue to help build the Library collection. The statue will feature the creative talents of Nine | Light | Labs, artist Cheryl Jacobsen, poet Marvin Bell, bookbinder Larry Yerkes and woodworker David Naso. The cover of “the [...]