Building Local Community Through Arts, Cultural, and Recreational Events, and the Exchange of Goods and Services
Pick-up Friday 1/14.
This month our storywalk is Owl Moon by Jane Yolen and we’re celebrating by offering an owl grab-and-go kit to learn about owls at home. The kit will include an owl pellet to dissect, suggestions for going on your own “Owl Moon” style owl walk, and owl coloring sheets from the International Owl Center. Pair this activity kit with the Owl Moon Bookwalk at Phelps Park. Sponsored by Friends of Decorah Public Library.
Registration is required. Please use form below to register.
Thursday, 1/13
3:30-4:30 pm
Decorate luminaries in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We provide the supplies, you create messages of peace, hope, and light to decorate our library steps on the evening of Monday, January 17th. This activity is appropriate for kids, teens, and adult. Children under 8 must be accompanied by a grown-up.
Registration is required. Use form below to register.
Monday 1/10, 1/24
DPL children’s section 10 am
Join Decorah Public Library for an active storytime with stretches, scarves, and shaker eggs. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. No registration required. Sponsored by Friends of the Decorah Public Library
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This will be an active program with about 20 minutes of stories, stretches, and rhymes followed by time and space for unstructured play and caregiver socialization. We understand that in a multi-age setting that attention spans will vary and welcome you to participate at the level that feels appropriate. Covid-19 considerations: The Children’s Librarian will be wearing a mask and masks will be available for others that would prefer to wear one. Please feel free to reach out to Rachael at rbutton@decorahlibrary.org for any additional questions about accessibility, accommodations or logistics.
Looking to read, explore, and have some fun over winter break? Complete the Decorah Public Library Winter Break Challenge! Complete any four activities from the challenge card between 12/20 and 1/7 and turn into Impact Coffee for a free hot cocoa. Click on on of the links below to print your challenge card.
Sponsored by Friends of Decorah Public Library.
We provide the supplies for a project–you pick them up at the library and do the project at home.
— : Frozen Bubbles
Please pick up materials at the library Tuesday 1/18 between 9 am and 7 pm. Supplies are limited. Register early to guarantee a space. Registration ends 1/9 at 3 pm.
Registration required please use form below to register.
Phelps Park
12/23
The Decorah Public Library, the Decorah Community School District, and the Decorah Parks and Recreation Department are hosting a BookWalk at Phelps Park starting Thursday 12/23
A BookWalk is a fun way to read while enjoying the outdoors. This BookWalk will feature Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. The BookWalk is free, open to the public, and does not require registration. The story is available in both English and Spanish. Thank-you to Friends of Decorah Public Library for funding the books for this walk.
Decorah Public Library staff are hosting four book discussions in March. The groups are open to the public and newcomers are encouraged to attend. Anyone interested should call the library at 382-3717 to learn more or to reserve a book.
Looking for a literacy based challenge for your family this winter? Stop by Decorah Public Library, or visit our website, to pickup a winter reading BINGO card.
Decorah Public Library is offering two BINGO challenges: an “Early Literacy” bingo card designed for children 0-5 and a “Read Diverse Books” BINGO card recommended for children, tweens, teens, elementary school age and older.
“It’s easy to get in a rut during the winter,” says Children’s and Young Adult Librarian Rachael Button. “We wanted to design a BINGO challenge that would engage our patrons in literacy-based activities.”
April 7-13, 2019 is National Library Week, an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries and librarians play in transforming lives and communities. The theme of this year’s National Library Week is “Libraries = Strong Communities.” Libraries are at the heart of their cities, towns, schools and campuses. They have public spaces where people of all backgrounds can come together and connect. This theme certainly rings true here in Decorah.
In April, Decorah Public Library has 23 programs scheduled for all ages (and this doesn’t even include Tech Help!) and we’re partnering with 11 different organizations and businesses (most of them local) including (in order of appearance): Luther College, the Oneota Questers, RUBAIYAT, Iowa Legal Aid, Friends of Decorah Public Library, the Winneshiek Energy District, Green Iowa AmeriCorps, members of the Upper Iowa Training Club, Reefuel, Winneshiek County Conservation, and the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium!
The Decorah Public Library is celebrating National Library Week at DPL with a wide variety of programs for people of all ages and fine amnesty all week long. Anyone with overdue library materials may take advantage of fine amnesty: simply bring overdue items to the front desk of the library, let a staff member know that they are overdue, and all fines for those items will be removed.
