Stop by the Library on Tuesday, December 10th from 10-3 and tell your story about living or growing up in Plainfield! Library staff will have recording equipment to capture your story; we'll also have some questions prepared to help prompt you in telling your history....
Books about Books are the tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich of the literary world - delicious, comforting, and always appropriate. Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The most recent addition to the list is Robin Sloan's 2012 debut novel about an eccentric bookstore owner...
Get in the holiday spirit with a free concert at the library on Thursday, December 5th from 7:00-8:30pm. In her program 'Holiday Music Past & Present', highly acclaimed pianist/composer Deborrah Wyndham shares her own arrangements of various holiday pieces both traditional and popular. With styles...
Enjoy breakfast with Santa at Applebee's on Saturday, December 14th, from 8:30 to 10:30am. Tickets are on sale now at the main desk at the library. Children's tickets are $6.00 and adult tickets are $10.00. Children will be able to get their pictures taken with...
[caption id="attachment_1995" align="alignleft" width="373"] This week in Area T[/caption] We all know that November is a great month to show gratitude ('30 Days of Gratitude') is a popular, trending activity on social media. Come join us on Thursday to get into the swing of this holiday...
Fun with ROY G. BIV program! We started with White Rabbit's Color Book, then did two experiments with color, guessing what would happen, and seeing what really happened. The first photo is three Skittle candies dropped into water. First the ink washed off and stayed...
The weather is turning colder, Halloween is around the corner, so why not curl up with a good, spooky book I'm not one for lots of blood and gore, but there are plenty of thrilling reads that will be leave you afraid of the dark! The...
Update for 10/17: Evergreen is down for maintenance because someone cut a cable they weren't suppose to! This outage affects our ability to search the catalog, connect to Overdrive, Zinio and Freegal, accept money for fines and other functions! We'll be back up and running...
Here is some quick information about the Affordable Care Act. Keep your eye on this post; hopefully more info will be added soon! Open enrollment runs from October 1st and ends March 31, 2014. What you need to know: People can enroll online (highly suggested), by paper application...
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or STEAM (which adds Art) programming is everywhere these days. The President launched the Educate to Innovate STEM initiative to “move American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement.” Schools, afterschool programs, daycares,...
