The City Plaza Children’s Garden was planted on June 3, 2012, as part of the Iowa City Public Library’s Children’s Day events. This downtown garden is the result of collaboration between New Pioneer Food Co-op and the City of Iowa City. Scott Koepke, the education and outreach coordinator for New Pioneer Food Co-op; and Rachael [...]

The Iowa City Book Festival is an annual event celebrating books, writing, and reading. Please consider volunteering for the Iowa City Book Festival on Saturday, July 14 and Sunday, July 15. Without the support of our volunteer community, the Festival could not host authors and book-lovers from across the state and around the country. We [...]

The Library Channel, available on local cable channel 10, originates from the Iowa City Public Library. Channel programming is coordinated and produced by the staff of the Iowa City Public Library’s Community Services Department. The Library Channel is available to viewers who subscribe to cable television through the local cable franchise, currently Mediacom. Get The [...]

The Iowa City Public Library is pleased to announce the launch of an innovative service: The Local Music Project. The Library has loaned music for decades, CD’s most recently, but vinyl before that. The market for these is shrinking though, and we’ve been looking for a new model. Here it is: If you have an [...]

The Iowa City Public Library is very excited for the upcoming launch of an innovative and first-of-its-kind service. ICPL has begun leasing rights from local musicians for local library cardholders to download and keep available recordings from local musicians. We will launch the “Local Music Project” this Thursday, June 7, 2012. If you have a [...]