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12/7/2024 - 1/1/2025
Through January 1 - Bring a Coat/Take a Coat is to insure all Comets have a warm and healthy winter. Donate clean jackets, boots and gloves for infants - adults for men and women. Stop by and take whatever your family needs to stay warm this holiday. Happy Holidays!
12/24/2024
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!12/26/2024
All Ages with Adult Supervision. Love escape rooms? Try your skills at our holiday themed escape room “Who stole the turkey?” You will have an hour to use your puzzling skills to crack the code, solve the puzzle and save Christmas dinner. Bring your friends or family as this is a fun activity for all ages. Register now for your own 90 minute slot! 12/27/2024
All Ages with Adult Supervision. Love escape rooms? Try your skills at our holiday themed escape room “Who stole the turkey?” You will have an hour to use your puzzling skills to crack the code, solve the puzzle and save Christmas dinner. Bring your friends or family as this is a fun activity for all ages. Register now for your own 90 minute slot! 12/28/2024
All Ages with Adult Supervision. Love escape rooms? Try your skills at our holiday themed escape room “Who stole the turkey?” You will have an hour to use your puzzling skills to crack the code, solve the puzzle and save Christmas dinner. Bring your friends or family as this is a fun activity for all ages. Register now for your own 90 minute slot! 12/29/2024
All Ages with Adult Supervision. Love escape rooms? Try your skills at our holiday themed escape room “Who stole the turkey?” You will have an hour to use your puzzling skills to crack the code, solve the puzzle and save Christmas dinner. Bring your friends or family as this is a fun activity for all ages. Register now for your own 90 minute slot! 12/30/2024
All Ages with Adult Supervision. Love escape rooms? Try your skills at our holiday themed escape room “Who stole the turkey?” You will have an hour to use your puzzling skills to crack the code, solve the puzzle and save Christmas dinner. Bring your friends or family as this is a fun activity for all ages. Register now for your own 90 minute slot! 12/31/2024
Ages 1 - 6. Come join us for a “Noon Year’s Eve” party during our regular storytime, especially for little kids! Make crafts and noisemakers, enjoy party hats, games and toast the new year—grape juice provided!1/2/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/2/2025
Ages 8 - 12. Join us for an afternoon of fun and friendly Switch gaming! We’ll play Mario Kart today! Who’s the best driver around? Feel free to bring your Switch to play between your turns! All skill levels welcome!1/2/2025
Ages 7+. Start the new year with some FUN--Learn the basics of Square or Contra Dance and have fun at this lively FREE workshop! Come solo, bring some friends, make some friends, and learn fun dances in a friendly, relaxed, judgment-free atmosphere. Recorded music, live, in-person instruction, these fun dances are like an amusement park ride you make for yourself! Wear comfortable shoes and clothes you can move easily in. Dances will alternate. 1/7/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!1/8/2025
Adults. Join us at the library for a fun afternoon playing Bingo and winning books and other prizes. Refreshments will be provided.1/8/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!1/9/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/9/2025
Adults. Join fellow community members in reading and discussing Angeline Boulley’s book, The Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this murder mystery about a young woman who is part Anishinabek will draw you into her world of the Anishinaabe people and their traditions. 1/11/2025
18 months & younger and their parents or caregivers. We’ll read a story, sing and rhyme together, do a fingerplay, and have fun while learning and playing. We’ll end with time for caregivers to socialize and babies to play & interact with each other.1/14/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!1/14/2025
Ages 8 - 12. We’ll have our Minecraft server set up and the laptops ready to go. No experience needed -- all levels of players/builders welcome.1/15/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!1/15/2025
Ages 12+. Join Historian Andrew Kercher and examine the historical past of our Great Lake State! Shipwrecks are fascinating to divers, historians and anyone with an imagination that's been near the lakes on a stormy day. Different wrecks can tell stories of courage and heroism, but also of cowardice and greed. They can also be used as a way to see the changing nature of shipping on the Great Lakes and the evolution of Michigan, from territory to frontier state to modern times.1/16/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/16/2025
Families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 1: Create, Test, Improve! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.1/16/2025
Adults. Join fellow community members in reading and discussing Angeline Boulley’s book, The Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this murder mystery about a young woman who is part Anishinabek will draw you into her world of the Anishinaabe people and their traditions. 1/18/2025
Ages 6+. Lincoln Brick Park. Just like us, birds and mammals are around in the winter! Join us at Lincoln Brick Park to learn more about our local winter wildlife. See and identify various animal tracks found in our area, discover the strategies that wildlife employ to survive during winter, and create homemade bird feeders to take home. Enjoy roasting marshmallows over a fire too!1/20/2025
Ages 4+. Create a sparkly winter piece of art with paint, glue, and Epsom salts. Learn about the science that happens when you combine paint and salt.1/21/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!1/22/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!1/22/2025
Adult. There is a lot of consumer confusion around "credit", and yet credit affects so many aspects of daily life! This workshop will address credit myths, explain the importance of credit reports, demystify credit scores, and provide strategies to build and protect your credit. Participants may receive several handouts. Presented by Ezra Pompos, Financial and Homeownership Program Instructor, MSU Extension. Questions? Call Ezra’s office: 517-887-4575, email epompos@msu.edu 1/23/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/23/2025
Families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 1: Create, Test, Improve! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.1/23/2025
Adults. Join fellow community members in reading and discussing Angeline Boulley’s book, The Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this murder mystery about a young woman who is part Anishinabek will draw you into her world of the Anishinaabe people and their traditions. 1/26/2025 - 3/2/2025
Through March 2, during the 18th Annual MSUFCU Student Art Exhibit, art lovers can expect to see many genres including drawing, painting, photography and 3D sculpture from local high school student artists. They’ll have easy access to view it with the exhibit returning to MSUFCU’s Headquarters 1 Building.
1/27/2025
Ages 3+. Kids can enjoy time to create with clay! We’ll have several different kinds on hand – from PlayDoh to Sculpty-type clays for older kids to enjoy. Some clays can be oven baked to make miniature creations! Younger kids increase their hand strength and dexterity by playing with PlayDoh and clay.1/28/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!1/29/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!1/29/2025
Ages 16+. Join Swordsmanship Museum and Academy historian Jerry Berg as he leads us through a journey back a millennium to the Viking Age to explain and explore the Warrior society of the Viking Culture! The presentation will answer all your questions about Vikings!1/30/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!1/30/2025
Families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 1: Create, Test, Improve! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.1/30/2025
Adults. Join fellow community members in reading and discussing Angeline Boulley’s book, The Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this murder mystery about a young woman who is part Anishinabek will draw you into her world of the Anishinaabe people and their traditions. 2/1/2025
All Ages. We'll have children's activities all day, including our Early Childhood/Preschool Fair from 11am - 1pm! Pick up a kids craft or STEAM kits (while supplies last); play with our Manipulative Table, color, make up a "GLAD-Lib", hunt for "Hidden Hearts" and a Scavenger Hunt, register to win free children's books, and check-out great books for all ages from our library! Our annual Early Childhood Fair features area preschools & learning centers, plus MDHHS, Eaton RESA, BEDHD, Community Mental Health info and giveaways too!2/1/2025
Families with Kids Under 4. Families with young children meet area agencies providing important services especially for early childhood-- plus fun for children too! Parents can talk with representatives from area Preschools and Learning Centers and find the program that best meets their needs. Have your child's hearing and vision screened-- BEDHD (Barry-Eaton District Health Department) will conduct FREE Hearing and Vision Screenings for young children during the FAIR, and offer information on their many other early childhood programs, including Baby Cafe, immunizations, and Lead Screening..Eaton RESA (Regional Education Service Agency); MDHHS (Michigan Department of Health & Human Services); CMHA-CEI (Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton and Ingham) will be on hand with information on a wealth of important early childhood services! Musician and childhood music educator Wanda Degen will provide music during the event. The Library will have books, toys and coloring sheets for kids to enjoy and there will be a fun scavenger hunt to complete and get entered into a drawing for books and other fun prizes-- and get your child their library card too!2/2/2025
Ages 7+. Learn the basics of Square, Contra Dance or Cued Ballroom Dance and have fun at these lively FREE monthly workshops! Come solo, bring some friends, make some friends, and learn fun dances in a friendly, relaxed, judgment-free atmosphere. Recorded music, live, in-person instruction, these fun dances are like an amusement park ride you make for yourself! Wear comfortable shoes and clothes you can move easily in. Great fun for all ages, best for ages 7+. Square Dance: Sunday, Feb 2. Contra Dance: Sunday, March 2.2/3/2025
Ages 5+. Make key chains, jewelry, or anything else you can think up with special Shrinky Dink plastic and our toaster oven. Watch as your creations shrink like magic when they heat up.2/4/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!2/5/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!2/5/2025
Ages 12+. Too chilly to fish? Learn to tie flies for next summer with the Red Cedar Fly Fishers! Feel free to attend one or both of these workshops. Class will go over the tools, materials, and techniques to tie 2 to 3 different fishing flies per workshop, for Trout, Bluegills, or Bass. All materials and instruction provided by members of the Red Cedar Fly Fishers. Registration required for EACH workshop. While supplies last or space is available.2/6/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!2/6/2025
Ages 5+. Show your special people how much you love them! We’ll have a variety of craft supplies to create cards and valentines to give to friends and family or to use to decorate your home.2/7/2025
Adult. The American Red Cross needs our blood donations to continue to provide life-saving services. Please join us for a blood drive at GLADL. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767), or visit RedCrossBlood.org (sponsor code GLADL) for more information or to schedule an appointment. Note: At this time, appointments are strongly recommended. Each blood drive will be evaluated in a case by case basis to see if we can accept walk in’s based on the number of appointments, equipment and staff available.2/8/2025
18 months & younger and their parents or caregivers. We’ll read a story, sing and rhyme together, do a fingerplay, and have fun while learning and playing. We’ll end with time for caregivers to socialize and babies to play & interact with each other.2/8/2025
All ages. Lincoln Brick Park. A Campfire Science and S’mores event! Join us at Lincoln Brick Park for an fascinating evening focused on owls and their remarkable adaptations that enable them to thrive and hunt during nighttime. The event will begin with a brief presentation on owl biology, followed by a guided night hike where participants will have the chance to observe these nocturnal creatures using red lights and acoustic bird calls. Stories and kids activities too.2/9/2025
Adult. Come enjoy coffee, conversation and audience participation for an afternoon of poetry, fun and ideas. Six area women poets reading poems about 5 subjects in rotation, each giving their spin on the topics. Readers include, Mary Anna Scenga Kruch, Tari Muñiz, Mary Fox, Keke Andrews and Sarah Smith-- who each approach poetry in different ways and from different backgrounds. It is a fast-paced different kind of reading that is full of engaging and provoking poems to engage an audience of both poetry fans and those unfamiliar with its performance. Topics include: After I Found Myself, Things I Whisper, Finding my Tribe, Good Grief, The Best of Everyday Memories.2/10/2025
Adult. Plan ahead to get the best experience! Michigan has 104 state parks—which park is right for you? Which parks offer camping? Which have the best beaches or the fewest crowds? Join us for this fun, interactive presentation from the Michigan DNR! Shaun McKeon, the Explorer Program Coordinator will host a session providing information on where to camp, how to book sites and provide an update on park upgrades happening throughout the state. Q & A to follow. With more than 100 parks, adventure is nearby!2/11/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!2/11/2025
Ages 8 - 12. We’ll have our Minecraft server set up and the laptops ready to go. No experience needed -- all levels of players/builders welcome.2/12/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!2/12/2025
Ages 12+. Too chilly to fish? Learn to tie flies for next summer with the Red Cedar Fly Fishers! Feel free to attend one or both of these workshops. Class will go over the tools, materials, and techniques to tie 2 to 3 different fishing flies per workshop, for Trout, Bluegills, or Bass. All materials and instruction provided by members of the Red Cedar Fly Fishers. Registration required for EACH workshop. While supplies last or space is available.2/13/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!2/13/2025
Ages 13 - 18. Teens, put your taste buds to the test! We’ll have a variety of different Oreos. Eat your cookies without knowing which is which and see if you can correctly guess each flavor! Also, vote on your favorite Oreo to determine the most popular flavor.2/15/2025
Ages 5+. Race your decorated potato vehicle against other potatoes to see which vehicle is the fastest. Winners will be awarded in the following categories: Fastest, Most Creative, People’s Choice. Ribbons for every participant! Potatoes supplied by the library and available for pick up beginning Saturday Feb. 1st. A complete list of rules will be provided at pick up.2/17/2025
For families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 2: Step It Out! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.2/18/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!2/19/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!2/20/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!2/24/2025
For families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 2: Step It Out! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.2/25/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!2/26/2025
Kids 3rd grade and up. A Code Club for all! Learn to make games, apps, animations, and more! No coding experience necessary. No coding expertise necessary & drop-ins welcome!2/26/2025
Adult. Does this sound familiar? Your voicemail is full. Your mail is cascading off the counter. You can't find your keys--again. You're buried in possessions. Something needs to change! De-Clutter your life with helpful insights, a plan and tips from Heather, professional "Decluttering Expert"! Heather will discuss the decluttering process, target organizing, creating functional spaces, and ways to manage the process--for yourself or a family member. Presentation, helpful handouts and Q&A.2/27/2025
Runs January 2 - February 28, adults. Are you ready for an adult winter reading challenge? Get ready to cozy up with a good book and earn prizes for each book read. Enter the challenge and read books from at least 5 of the 15 categories to get entered into a grand prize drawing. Participants will get their name on a snow flake for our window. Let’s create a blizzard of Winter Readers!3/3/2025
For families with kids ages 4-6. Unit 2: Step It Out! Join us for some problem-solving fun with the Work It Out Wombats!™ and learn computational thinking (CT) skills. Work It Out Wombats! is a national PBS KIDS® series that features three energetic marsupial siblings who solve problems in creative ways using computational thinking. Come learn more about CT, a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways using a set of skills from computer science. Over the three week program, we’ll do fun hands-on activities, watch Wombats! videos, and listen to CT stories. In between the sessions, families will continue the learning at home, using the Work It Out Wombats! Family App, which is designed for adults and children to use together. Each week will build on the last so please plan on attending all three weeks.3/4/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!3/11/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!3/18/2025
Ages 1 - 6 and Caregivers. Join us for fun stories, songs, and a simple craft each week!