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Register to join our Choose Your Own Adventure Boo

Register to join our Choose Your Own Adventure Book Club! This is a read-aloud style book club where a new book is read each session, and the adventurers decide which path the group should take! After we read the book, we will do a short activity. Collect all of your adventure stamps along the way to earn a prize! This CYOA Book Club is designed for readers (3rd-6th Grade). Registration is required. Please visit our website to register. Link in bio!

Are you ready for the 2025 Plan Changes to Medicar

Are you ready for the 2025 Plan Changes to Medicare? If not, Yvonne Peterson can help you! Yvonne is a broker contracted with the area’s top insurance companies to give you the choices necessary for a complete and personalized review.

In a culture increasingly dominated by technology

In a culture increasingly dominated by technology and highly manipulated landscapes, connecting with nature can seem impossible. Explore what we are missing when we lose our connection to nature and gain inspiration that will help to prioritize nature connections, even as winter approaches and day lengths shorten. This virtual program will be presented by Emily Swihart, Illinois Extension horticulture educator. A Boone County Master Gardener will be present to help facilitate this program. Registration is required for webinar link. Please visit our website to register. Link in bio!

Looking for something to show off at Thanksgiving

Looking for something to show off at Thanksgiving this year? Come to our Tile Memories Craft on Tuesday, October 1st at 6pm. Bring up to 4 of your favorite family photos to be copied and transformed into a decorative coaster or ornament. Due to materials, this is an adult only event. Registration is required. Please visit our website to register. Link in bio!

Come join us this Wednesday, October 2nd at 10:30A

Come join us this Wednesday, October 2nd at 10:30AM for Story Sprouts! This weekly program is perfect for your preschool-aged reader to engage in stories, activities, and crafts!

Thanks to your generosity, the Friends of the Ida

Thanks to your generosity, the Friends of the Ida Public Library have more books than they can safely display/sell right now. We look forward to seeing you at the Friends Fall Book Sale November 7 - 9. If you have books you need to clear out of your house, please consider the Salvation Army, Goodwill, or another nearby library.

Ever want to create or design your own board game?

Ever want to create or design your own board game? If so, come join us for Franken-Games! In this special DIY own program you will create your own board game with recycled materials! So if you have an old board game with missing pieces, bring it in & bring it new life with Franken-Games! Registration is required. Please visit our website to register. Link in bio!

Looking for something to show off at Thanksgiving

Looking for something to show off at Thanksgiving this year? Come to our Tile Memories Craft on Tuesday, October 1st at 6pm. Bring up to 4 of your favorite family photos to be copied and transformed into a decorative coaster or ornament. Due to materials, this is an adult only event. Registration is required. Please visit our website to register. Link in bio!

Join us, tomorrow, September 24th @ 3PM for Club N

Join us, tomorrow, September 24th @ 3PM for Club Next! This club is geared towards 2nd to 5th graders! We will have different games, crafting materials, Hour of Code games, and activities for you to do while you hang out at the library. Each session, we will also have a themed (but optional) activity. This months theme is Minecraft! No registration is needed, just drop in!

Join us on Wednesday mornings on the lower level i

Join us on Wednesday mornings on the lower level in the meeting room for Story Sprouts! This weekly program is perfect for your preschool-aged reader to engage in stories, activities, and crafts!

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Culver's is helping our Friends of the Library group again this year with a great fundraiser! Take a break from all the Halloween preparations on Monday, October 21st and let Culver's make a dinner! You never know who might pop in to say boo! A portion of all sales from 4-8pm will help fund programs, library preservation, and other needs in 2025.
#culvers #Halloween #belvidereil #idapubliclibrary
— at Culver's.

Calling all Tweens! Do you love different fandoms?

Calling all Tweens! Do you love different fandoms? Well, we have just the club for you! Join us tomorrow, September 20th at 3:30PM for Fandom Fridays! At this drop in program, we will hangout and celebrate a different fandom with activities, games and crafts!

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#TBT The month of September is Hispanic Heritage month. In honor of the occasion, we will be remembering the visit of Guadalupe “ Lupe” Contreras to the city of Belvidere in 1973. Lupe was from Laredo Nuevo Mexico. He was working with a theater troupe in Milwaukee, but he based himself in Belvidere to visit his parents and other relatives.

His group back in Mexico, Los Amigos, was highly successful. They have been broadcast on Mexican National TV multiple times and appeared annually in Texas for the March of Dimes. Lupe had personally written 25 plays and 8 novels at the time of his visit.

While in Belvidere, he volunteered his time at El Primer Paso daycare. He gave the children dance lessons, both contemporary and traditional. In December of 1973, the daycare hosted a short Christmas program with the help of Contreras. The children displayed their dancing skills, sang carols, and performed a short, one act play with a backdrop painted by Contreras himself. At the end of the program, he was presented with an engraved plague as a thank you gift. Lupe’s own performance in the program can be seen in our picture today.

There is still time to read this months graphic no

There is still time to read this months graphic novel for the Tween Graphic Novel Book Club! This months graphic novel is "Treasure In The Lake" by Jason Pamment. Graphic novels will be available at the lower level circulation desk to check out. Then come join us, Thursday, September 26th @ 4PM to discuss the graphic novel & do an activity!

Join us for Club Next, this club is geared towards

Join us for Club Next, this club is geared towards 2nd to 5th graders! We will have different games, crafting materials, Hour of Code games, and activities for you to do while you hang out at the library. Each session, we will also have a themed (but optional) activity. This months theme is Minecraft! No registration is needed, just drop in!

We just added some new stories to Dial A Story! J

We just added some new stories to Dial A Story! Just dial the number, choose a story from the menu offerings, and enjoy! We like to thank Office Blankenship and Office Bell for being our special guests in reading a story!

This month, we are celebrating 80 years of Smokey

This month, we are celebrating 80 years of Smokey the Bear! What better way than to talk about one of Smokey’s favorite topics.. Fire Safety! Register for this family friendly fire safety workshop with the experts at BFD! Registration is required. Please visit our website to register. Link in bio!

Calling all Tweens! Do you love different fandoms?

Calling all Tweens! Do you love different fandoms? Well, we have just the club for you! Each month on Fandom Fridays we will hangout and celebrate a different fandom with activities, games and crafts! This month we will celebrate all things Harry Potter! No registration is needed, just drop on by!

Calling all Tweens! Do you love different fandoms?

Calling all Tweens! Do you love different fandoms? Well, we have just the club for you! Each month on Fandom Fridays we will hangout and celebrate a different fandom with activities, games and crafts!

#TBT September is Little League Baseball month. Li

#TBT September is Little League Baseball month. Little League baseball was formed as an organization in 1939. It has been a part of Belvidere athletics ever since then but really started to gain steam here and in the rest of the country in the mid-50s. In fact, it became so popular that President Eisenhower officially declared a Little League week in 1954.

The sport grew so rapidly here in Belvidere, that, after adding a second little league in 1953, they had to create a young teen’s division, called the Pony League,in 1954. Teams were named for local sponsors such as the Rotary team, the Moose Lodge team,and the IOU team. In 1958, the Belvidere Youth Baseball organization was formed and has remained Belvidere’s main organizer for Little League ever since. Pictured today is the BYB All-Star Team from 1965. They competed at the state tournament in Chicago for a chance to enter the national tournament. They didn’t quite make it, but it was a good show for Belvidere baseball

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