Library Closed on Sunday, May 26 and Monday, May 27
All locations of the library will be closed on Sunday, May 26 and Monday, May 27 for the Memorial Day holiday.
2013 Falcon Banding
Thursday,
May 30, 10:30 am, West Side of the 3rd Floor, Main Library
Come meet this year's batch of "eyase", or baby falcons! Our friends from the Peregrine Reclamation Project at the Field Museum and the Shedd Aquarium will be here to band the babies, and we'll announce their names. All are welcome: bring your cameras! Meanwhile, check out their progress on the EPL FalconCam.
Have Book - Will Travel: Adult Summer Reading Game
June 1- July 31, All 3 Evanston Public Library Locations
It’s back! For the first time in nearly a decade EPL will be hosting an adult summer reading program. Each week all you have to do is read a book, newspaper, or magazine, head to the library location closest to you and enter your name for the raffle. Each Saturday, every location will pull a winner! And at the end of the summer, everyone can enter again for the Grand Prize. Find the suitcase at any public desk and enter to win all summer long. Ages 18+
Teen Summer Reading Program: Have Book Will Travel
June 1- July 31, The Loft, Main Library & Both Evanston Public Library Branches
Run, walk, bike, skateboard, drive- whatever it takes! Just make sure to take part in the Loft’s EPIC summer reading program, filled with chances to win prizes like a $100 gift card to Old Orchard Mall. Stop by, sign up, get a reading log and you’ll be on your way to getting raffle tickets to win gift cards to your favorite restaurants and shops,cool weekly prizes, popular YA books and more . Come to the Loft or either Library branch to sign up starting June 1. Learn all the specific details about the teen program check out the Teen Summer Reading Page. Grades 6-12.
"Bach in the Classroom" at North Branch
Saturday, May 25, 2 pm, North Branch
Join us for a lively and entertaining look at the fun and beauty of classical music. Actor, musician and educator, Lynn Sampson uses hands-on activities and live music designed to make life-long music lovers of young children.
For grades K-5 (and their parents!). Register online for an email reminder.
Carrie Goldman: "Bullied"
Wednesday, May 29, 7 pm Community Meeting Room, Main Library
Author Carrie Goldman leads a discussion of her book, Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know about Ending the Cycle of Fear. Drawing on personal experience, as well as dozens of interviews, she explains how parents, teachers and kids can best cope with this issue.
Carrie Goldman is a popular blogger on parenting and adoption issues for The Huffington Post, ChicagoNow, and Psychology Today. Her writing has also been featured by NPR, CNN Headline News, and WGN Radio. She lives in Evanston.
Raising Boys Book Group
Thursday, May 30, 7:45 - 9 pm, Children's Conference Room, Main Library
In this book group for parents of boys ages 1-13 years old, we will read engaging children's literature featuring fully-realized boy characters and discuss the story in an effort to better understand the challenges we face while raising our boys - and the challenges our boys face at home and in the world at large. Co-led by Jarrett Dapier, a teen servicest librarian and father, and Betty Mac Kune Karrer, a former family systems therapist at Northwestern University, this book group gives parents a chance to understand their sons better and learn strategies for giving boys the support they need to thrive.
Our May book will be DEAR MR. HENSHAW by Beverly Cleary. Please register online, at the children's desk, at the Loft desk, or by calling (847) 448-8610, and then read the book before our meeting (copies available at the children's desk).
If you are a two-parent household, both parents are strongly encouraged to attend.
Evanston Public Library Offers Innovative Pilot Programming This Summer
Want to encourage your teenager to be innovative, creative and productive once school lets out? Would your daughter like to program a robot? Perhaps your son would like to use the latest technology offered by a 3-D printer.
Evanston Public Library (EPL) will offer innovative programming at all three of our locations this summer for teenagers, children and families to engage with technology, invent and tinker, create rather than consume, and discover the joy of learning while doing. The programming is designed to spark interest in science, technology, engineering, math & the arts and help develop valuable skills in an atmosphere of discovery, collaboration, and fun. What better way to learn!
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