It's time to get in the holiday spirit. Drop into the Children's Department during any of the library's open hours from December 1-15 to create beautiful eco-friendly holiday wrapping paper, cards and gift tags. Everything you need to create these...

Lock Your Doors: True Crime Book Club Lock Your Doors: A True Crime Book Club will meet online via Zoom to discuss Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up by Jeff Coen.  Contact the Adult S...

IL Libraries Present Author and Baker Shauna Sever Join Shauna Sever, cookbook author, TV and radio contributor, and daughter of the great Midwest for this special Illinois Libraries Present holiday season event. Shauna will share her love of...

Book Ends  Calling all readers! You're invited to share some favorite books that you've read this year. It doesn't matter if you read them for a book club, by recommendation or chance, or if they've been around for a while or are newly publis...

Books on Tap Book Club The Books on Tap Book Club will meet at Lil Beaver Brewery to discuss The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.  Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomi...

The Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to check out or reserve a print copy of the book. Digital co...

The Fiction Book Club will meet online via Zoom to discuss Anxious People by Frederik Backman. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to check out or reserve a print copy of the book...

Books on Tap Book Club The Books on Tap Book Club will meet at Lil Beaver Brewery to discuss The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org&nbs...

The in-person session of the History Book Club will meet at the McLean County History Museum (Courtroom, 2nd floor) to discuss The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli. It is strongly recommended that parti...

The History Book Club will meet online via Zoom to discuss The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 to check out or reserve a print copy of this month’s book...

The Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to check out or reserve a print copy of the book. Digital copi...

In recognition of Black History Month, the Fiction Book Club will meet online via Zoom to discuss American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson.  Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org ...

Books on Tap Book Club The Books on Tap Book Club will meet at Lil Beaver Brewery to discuss Verity by Colleen Hoover.  Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to check out or...

The True Colors Quarterly Book Club will meet at Under The Ground to discuss Bacon Grief by Joel Shoemaker. This discussion has a special guest, author Joel Shoemaker, who will participate and answer questions about his novel. Contact the Adult Se...

The Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to check out or reserve a print copy of the book. Digita...

In recognition of Women's History Month, the Fiction Book Club will meet online via Zoom to discuss Passing by Nella Larsen. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to check out ...

Lock Your Doors: A True Crime Book Club will meet online via Zoom to discuss Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? by Ethan Brown. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingt...

Books on Tap Book Club The Books on Tap Book Club will meet at Lil Beaver Brewery to discuss A Generation of Sociopaths : How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by Bruce Gibney.  Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168&nbs...

The Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss Murder in Chianti by Camilla Trinchieri. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to check out or reserve a print copy of the book. Digital c...

Fiction Book Club In recognition of Arab American Heritage Month, the Fiction Book Club will meet online via Zoom to discuss Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org&n...

Books on Tap Book Club The Books on Tap Book Club will meet at Lil Beaver Brewery to discuss Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.  Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org ...

The History Book Club will meet at the The Junction (301 E Oakland) due to construction at both the Library and Museum. A virtual meeting option is not being offered. We will discuss Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the He...

The Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney. Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org to check out or reserve a print copy of the book. Digita...

Fiction Book Club In recognition of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Fiction Book Club will meet online via Zoom to discuss Portrait Of A Thief by Grace Li.  Contact the Adult Services Desk at 309.590.6168 or refe...