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Log your reading on Beanstack online or the Beanstack app to earn badges.
Read 10 hours and earn a Beardie Buck good for $1 toward the purchase of a Friends Book Sale item or Loki accessory available at the Checkout Desk. Open to all ages! |
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Closings
| The Library building will be closed
• Tuesday, December 24
• Wednesday, December 25
• Tuesday, December 31
• Wednesday, January 1
Online access is always available. |
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January 13 – February 14, 2025
Join us for this virtual challenge to learn about Bridges Library System member libraries by taking online trivia quizzes!
Complete the quizzes and be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a prize using your CAFE library card number, email and phone number. |
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What do you want your Library to be?
We are working with FEH Design to analyze our current building and brainstorm plans for a future building project to better meet the needs and wants of our growing community. We invite you to be a part of our Advisory Task Force to assist in developing and evaluating criteria and solutions with the Core Planning Committee.
Task Force Meetings
• December 10, January 8, 21, and February 5 • 6 pm
Don’t have time to be on the task force but want to share your ideas? Drop in on Public Design SPARK Workshop Day
• January 8 or 21 • 9 am-5:30 pm
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Programs & Events
Library programs, events, and activities are free and open to the public, but some may require registration. A waiting list is available if registration is full. |
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| Thursday, January 2 • 6-7 pm | Travel the world and the seven seas from the comfort of your local library. This monthly program explores the cultural destinations, art, history and cuisine from places around the world.
Refreshments will be provided. This month's destination: Greenland! |
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| Friday, January 3 • 10:30 am-12 pm
| Join the Library Memory Project for a New Year's celebration from around the world! Make traditional crafts, play games from different cultures, and enjoy a little 'bubbly' as we usher in 2025!
Memory Cafés are monthly social gatherings for those with early-stage dementia or mild cognitive impairment and a care partner. |
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| Monday, January 6 • 6-7 pm | Be inspired and put your own stories into words in a supportive and inclusive environment. Share your work, discuss writing techniques, and give and receive feedback from other writers. |
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| Tuesday, January 7 • 6-7 pm |
Join renowned local Art Historian Professor Karri Fritz-Klaus as she dazzles us with a five-part symposium of the intricacies of the Fine Art Masters at work. Both inspiring and intellectual, this series is perfect for anyone interested in history, art, design and culture, as well as creative types looking to find inspiration in their own creative endeavors. This month: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Ninetenth century France comes radiantly alive as it opens a window into a burgeoning world of art. It was an extraordinary age; a moving story of courage and creativity in the convergences and divergences of an unlikely fivesome: Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cassatt. Like any co-existing "family", these pioneers prodded, inspired, irritated and encouraged each other to view art, not divorced from life but as an affirmation of life--and a life fully lived. |
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| Wednesday, January 8 • 9 am-5:30 pm Tuesday, January 21 • 9 am-5:30 pm |
Public Design SPARK session Day 1 & 2 at Library · Explore options with community
· Noon and evening presentations What do you want your Library to be?
We are working with FEH Design to analyze our current building and brainstorm plans for a future building project to better meet the needs and wants of our growing community. We invite you to be a part of our Advisory Task Force to assist in developing and evaluating criteria and solutions with the Core Planning Committee. |
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| Wednesday, January 8 • 6-7:30 pm Tuesday, January 21 • 6-7:30 pm |
Be a part of the Oconomowoc Public Library planning
effort to develop library solutions to meet current and
future needs!
Join us for four (4) public meetings! Meeting Times
Tuesday, Dec. 10 2024 at 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, Jan. 8 2025 at 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 at 6:00 -7:30 PM
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 at 6:00 -7:30 PM
The Advisory Task Force meetings will be in person and virtual. Depending on your preference, the Zoom information for the meetings is as follows: Meeting ID: 635 872 2023, Passcode: 808198, Dial by your location: 312 626 6799 (Chicago). What do you want your Library to be?
We are working with FEH Design to analyze our current building and brainstorm plans for a future building project to better meet the needs and wants of our growing community. We invite you to be a part of our Advisory Task Force to assist in developing and evaluating criteria and solutions with the Core Planning Committee. |
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| Thursdays, January 9 & 23 • 6-7:45 pm | Bring your project and make new friends! All fiber arts are welcome–crochet, knit, cross-stitch, weaving, latch-hooking, and more! |
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| Saturday, January 11 • 10-11:30 am Monday, January 13 • 10-11:30 am Wednesday, January 22 • 6-7:30 pm
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This program is an invitation for anyone seeking a more intentional approach to living and a wider lens to end-of-life planning. When you consciously contemplate and connect with others around the reality of your mortality, it will change how you live and how you die, right here, right now and for the rest of your life. Registration is required.
Please join Kathy Ginn as she opens the door to exploring the Sacredness of Life and Death: - Enrich Your Life by Contemplating your End of Life; Live and Embrace What Really Matters.
- End of Life Care Doula – What is an EOL Doula? It is important to remember; Death is not a medical experience – it is a human experience.
- Body-centered Grief Companion; we grieve with our body, mind, heart and soul.
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| Monday, January 13 • 6-8 PM | Ever wonder how you could share your creative side with the rest of the community? Join our monthly bookmark making bonanza! Make one (or more) to give away to patrons at the library and one to take home!
Supplies provided but feel free to bring your own paper arts and ribbon supplies to embellish! |
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| Wednesday, January 15 • 6-8 pm Thursday, January 16 • 9-11 am |
Learn how to paint with watercolors guided by step-by-step instructions. This month's theme: Snowman |
| Registration is Required |
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| Wednesday, January 22 • 12:30-2 PM | Enjoy bigger diamond painting fun, and conversation! Bring your own project to work on or choose from one the Library provides. Project design choices are first come, first served upon arrival. |
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| Monday, January 27 • 6-7:30 pm |
Begin your yarn arts adventure with an introduction to the materials, tools, and basic techniques used in knitting and crotchet. We will provide the yarn, needles and hooks that can be used during the program. Participants are welcome to bring their own needles, hooks or yarn for personal projects. |
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| Tuesday, January 28 • 6-7 pm |
Did you know that the Great Lakes offer one of the most unique assortment of rocks in the world? Join geologist and paleontologist Jason Rehorst for an all-ages program about minerals, fossils and crystals! Attendees will learn how to build and maintain a rock collection, the geological history and fossil record of Wisconsin, and be able to examine and handle various fossils and minerals. This program supplements the month long exhibit of the Virtual Museum of Geology's Travelling Educational Display at the Oconomowoc Public Library. |
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| Wednesday, January 29 • 6-7:30 pm Thursday, January 30 • 9-11 am
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Learn how to paint with step-by-step instructions. This month's painting: Winter woods |
| Registration is Required |
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