January 2020
Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »February 2020
Design a Plate Class for Kids
For ages 3 and older. All materials provided. Participants will be using markers to design large decorative plates. This program is free.
Find out more »Rachel Pieh Jones – Author Talk & Booksigning
ABOUT THE BOOK Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? Annalena Tonelli left behind career, family, and homeland anyway, moving to a remote Muslim village in northern Kenya to live among its outcasts – desert nomads dying of tuberculosis, history’s deadliest disease. “I am nobody,” she always insisted. Yet by the time she was killed for her work three decades later she had not only developed an…
Find out more »Magazine Article Discussion Group
Each month a new set of magazine articles are discussed. Articles can be found in the magazine area of the library. All are welcome to join this discussion group.
Find out more »Writers Group
The Writers Group is open to all writers of all styles. Join for Encouragement, Guidance, Inspiration, Feedback, & Networking. Are you looking for a group to share the challenges, joys, and ideas for writing? Whatever your style, genre, or interests, you are welcome at the Douglas County Library’s Writers Group. The group discusses the different challenges of writing and being a writer, partakes in free writing with writing prompts, and all writers are welcome to share their work with the group as they feel comfortable doing.
Find out more »Magazine Article Discussion Group
Each month a new set of magazine articles are discussed. Articles can be found in the magazine area of the library. All are welcome to join this discussion group.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Framed Heart: a Craft for Adults & Teens
Just in time to share the love, make this original gift for someone you love or yourself. This framed heart craft is absolutely free, but pre-registration is required. Call or stop by today as space is limited.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Card Making Class: Valentine Edition
Time to make some cards for friends, family, or anyone else. Valentine-themed paper and stamps will be available to use as well as other general papers, stamps, and inks. The class is free, but the class size is limited so please register today!
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Daytime Book Group
The Daytime Book Group meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 2 pm to 3 pm. We read a wide variety of titles, and all are welcome to join us at the Douglas County Library to discuss every month. Daytime Book Selections 2019 (January-June) 2nd Wednesday of each month at 2 pm in Large Meeting Room January Beartown – Fredrik Backman February Medea – Euripides (play) March Heartland: a memoir…
Find out more »Watercolor Positivity Cards for Kids
This program is for kids ages 7 and older. Paint a watercolor image and write a positive message on it to give to friends and family. Free, all materials are provided. Questions? Call the youth librarian at 320-762-3013.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Wolf 101 with the International Wolf Center
My what big ears you have! Join us as we look at the physical and social adaptations wolves use to survive in their environment. This program is open to kids of all ages (and adults). This is a videoconferencing program. No wolves will be present at the library but will be visible on screen with the scientists of the Wolf Center. Questions? Please call youth librarian Sarah Wethern at 320-762-3013 or email [email protected]
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Handicraft Support Group & More
All knitters, crocheters, sewers, embroiderers, cross-stitchers, quilters, tatters, and more are all welcome to join us to share ideas, get help, and enjoy each other’s company. Besides working on your own projects, participants are welcome to work on items which will be donated to charities. In 2018-2019, the group made dozens of blankets for children of all ages which were donated to Binky Patrol. Blankets/small rugs were also made which were given to the Snuggles Project which provides them to animal shelters.…
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Earth Views from Orbit
The dazzling show features photographs captured by the astronaut and Vining native during her second mission on the International Space Station in 2013. Nyberg took dozens of photos of earth from her unusual vantage point, posting the images on her Facebook page. Upon Nyberg’s return to earth, Henning-based photographer Dan Broten worked with the astronaut to select two dozen pictures to mount on canvas. The original display was created for a show at the Landmark Center in spring 2014, when…
Find out more »Phantastic Physics with Mad Science Minnesota!
Have fun with physics as we create lightning indoors! See electricity at work as we float pie tins and make a pickle light bulb! Discover the power of a Tesla coil as we use it to ignite a cannon. Then, we send 200,000 volts of electricity through one lucky volunteer for a truly hair-raising experience! This program is open to all ages but will be most enjoyed by school age children. Mad Science Minnesota will be making the science fun…
Find out more »March 2020
Magazine Article Discussion Group
Each month a new set of magazine articles are discussed. Articles can be found in the magazine area of the library. All are welcome to join this discussion group.
Find out more »Writers Group
The Writers Group is open to all writers of all styles. Join for Encouragement, Guidance, Inspiration, Feedback, & Networking. Are you looking for a group to share the challenges, joys, and ideas for writing? Whatever your style, genre, or interests, you are welcome at the Douglas County Library’s Writers Group. The group discusses the different challenges of writing and being a writer, partakes in free writing with writing prompts, and all writers are welcome to share their work with the group as they feel comfortable doing.
Find out more »Magazine Article Discussion Group
Each month a new set of magazine articles are discussed. Articles can be found in the magazine area of the library. All are welcome to join this discussion group.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Daytime Book Group
The Daytime Book Group meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 2 pm to 3 pm. We read a wide variety of titles, and all are welcome to join us at the Douglas County Library to discuss every month. Daytime Book Selections 2019 (January-June) 2nd Wednesday of each month at 2 pm in Large Meeting Room January Beartown – Fredrik Backman February Medea – Euripides (play) March Heartland: a memoir…
Find out more »Curator talk with Dan Broten
Dan Broten will give a curator talk during the opening reception of the exhibit on Wednesday, March 11, at 6:00 PM. He will discuss Karen Nyberg’s two missions into space, the making of the exhibit, as well as his enthusiasm for the history of space exploration. Broten has the professional distinction of photographing both of Nyberg’s launches: the space shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2008 and the 2013 Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Handicraft Support Group & More
All knitters, crocheters, sewers, embroiderers, cross-stitchers, quilters, tatters, and more are all welcome to join us to share ideas, get help, and enjoy each other’s company. Besides working on your own projects, participants are welcome to work on items which will be donated to charities. In 2018-2019, the group made dozens of blankets for children of all ages which were donated to Binky Patrol. Blankets/small rugs were also made which were given to the Snuggles Project which provides them to animal shelters.…
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »April 2020
Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Magazine Article Discussion Group
Each month a new set of magazine articles are discussed. Articles can be found in the magazine area of the library. All are welcome to join this discussion group.
Find out more »Writers Group
The Writers Group is open to all writers of all styles. Join for Encouragement, Guidance, Inspiration, Feedback, & Networking. Are you looking for a group to share the challenges, joys, and ideas for writing? Whatever your style, genre, or interests, you are welcome at the Douglas County Library’s Writers Group. The group discusses the different challenges of writing and being a writer, partakes in free writing with writing prompts, and all writers are welcome to share their work with the group as they feel comfortable doing.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Daytime Book Group
The Daytime Book Group meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 2 pm to 3 pm. We read a wide variety of titles, and all are welcome to join us at the Douglas County Library to discuss every month. Daytime Book Selections 2019 (January-June) 2nd Wednesday of each month at 2 pm in Large Meeting Room January Beartown – Fredrik Backman February Medea – Euripides (play) March Heartland: a memoir…
Find out more »Baby/Toddler Storytime
For children from birth to 36 months and their parent or caregiver. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format perfect for babies. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Baby/Toddler Storytime gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other families with little ones. No registration required.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime (Evening)
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »Handicraft Support Group & More
All knitters, crocheters, sewers, embroiderers, cross-stitchers, quilters, tatters, and more are all welcome to join us to share ideas, get help, and enjoy each other’s company. Besides working on your own projects, participants are welcome to work on items which will be donated to charities. In 2018-2019, the group made dozens of blankets for children of all ages which were donated to Binky Patrol. Blankets/small rugs were also made which were given to the Snuggles Project which provides them to animal shelters.…
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Preschool storytime is for children ages 3-6. No registration required! Stories come alive with books, puppets, rhymes, and songs! This program is designed to support early literacy skills in preschoolers, while encouraging them to love books at an early age.
Find out more »