Wednesday morning, the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced. The Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best...
Spring and Summer are seasons for the bees! Join us Tuesday, May 2, from 6 - 7:30 p.m. for our program “The Amazing Honey Bee.” Local beekeeper Jeff Doan! Jeff will cover a brief history of beekeeping and share information about bees in the region...
Please note: Per the schedule of library board of Trustees meetings approved at the November 2021 meeting, the December 2022 meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 13th at 7:00 PM in the Carnegie Room.[pdf-embedder url="https://www.plainfieldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/board-meetings-2022.pdf" title="board meetings 2022"]...
It's time for our second annual Bid it to Win it Virtual Silent Auction, where we put the FUN in fundraising! Support the library and bid on your favorite silent auction packages from the comfort of your home! Bidding will start on October 21 at 12:01a,...
We are happy to announce expanded access to two great resources for searching historical newspapers! Both Newspapers.com and Newpaper Archive are available from home as well as within the library! The scope of both collections has expanded as well. Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive database...
Celebrate National Library Card Sign-Up Month with our first ever annual Library Crawl! Make your plans to visit participating libraries (all listed below) during the month of September and learn about their services. Each participant will receive a Library Crawl Passport at their home library; when...
The Library will be closed on Monday, September 5th for Labor Day. For your convenience, no items are due and fines do not accrue when the library is closed. Items returned while we are closed are back-dated as well. Enjoy the library from home! Try our digital resources...
Learn Something New With 360+ Instructor-led, Online Classes! Gale Courses supports libraries as educational institutions and gives community members easy access to lifelong learning opportunities including professional development, technology, and personal enrichment courses. Available 24/7, Gale Courses provides more than 360 six-week long, online programs taught by college instructors. New...
If you've visited the library in the past couple of days, you've seen our newly arrived self-check units (still in some packaging to protect them until they are fully installed.) Once the last pieces come in, we expect these new units to be operation sometime...
The Library will be closed Monday, May 30th for Memorial Day. Our Evergreen servers will be down for maintenance over the holiday weekend as well, which will limit access to our catalog and many of our digital resources like Overdrive, Libby, and Hoopla. We apologize...
