Event List

Wiggle and giggle with your toddler through stories, songs, and movement activities that inspire a love for reading! Every session ends with BUBBLES!  

Join the NPL Knitting and Crocheting Club to work on your current project, as well as share tips and information.

No registration is required - please drop in!

Join our coding club and learn the skills to create websites, games, apps and more! We will use Fiero Code to build computer programming skills through a series of tutorials and projects.

Join fellow fans at NPL’s new horror club. We will meet to discuss a different book, movie or other creepy, spooky material each month. Movies screened might be rated R and we are likely to encounter violent or disturbing images.

Explore art techniques with the help of Illinois State University Art Education students!

Craving creativity? Need more color in your life? Try being an Art Spark! We’ll dabble with different mediums to create monthly masterpieces! Dress to get messy! 

This month's project is TBA!

Come create with your little one with Illinois Art Station at NPL!

Join us in the Atrium for a ukulele jam! Bring your ukulele (or borrow one of the library's) and join in, or feel free to watch and listen. You can bring copies of music you want the group to play, as well.

Enjoy a short story, songs, and BUBBLES intended to stimulate and enhance babies' development. Every session ends with playtime with new friends! 

Take a break from your busy day to join us for a beginner-level yoga class over your lunch hour in the Community Room. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat or beach towel.

No Yoga March 23 or May 25.

Let’s pour paint  together again! We will be working to create a floral scene with our pours. You will leave with a lovely and wet work of art. Please bring in something to help you transport your wet art home.

Join us in the Book Nook for stories, songs, and crafts!

Geared to ages 3-5 with a caregiver, but all are welcome. 

Let’s pour paint  together again!  We will be working to create a floral scene with our pours.  You will leave with a lovely and wet work of art.  Please bring in something to help you transport your wet art home.

Share your recent genealogical finds with others! Get help using Ancestry Library Edition and other library resources to explore your family’s history.

Experience guided meditation with a certified meditation facilitator, in a beginner-friendly environment.

Wiggle and giggle with your toddler through stories, songs, and movement activities that inspire a love for reading! Every session ends with BUBBLES!  

Paper crafters, please join us  for an opportunity to work on your projects.

Stranger Than Fiction book club meets once a month to discuss memoirs, biographies, true crime and other nonfiction titles. Copies of each month’s book will be available to pick up at the library front desk.

Come craft with us! We’ll provide the supplies, you provide the creativity. For ages 10-14.

March’s project: Painted wood slice keychains or charms

April’s project: Decorated mini flower pots

Join Miss Meghan of Communication Junction for stories, movement, rhymes, and bubbles! 

Beginner-to-advanced level knitters and crocheters (of all ages) are invited to come to the library to work together. New to the craft? Willing to mentor a newcomer?

Join us as we shine a spotlight on writing through the display of books written by children in grades kindergarten to 8th grade.

Interested in true crime and mysteries? Join us for NPL’s Crime Club! Each session features an expert speaker in that date’s theme.