Explore new horizons this year with our 2022 Reading Challenge! Step into uncharted territory, journey to distant lands, and adventure away! Log your reading throughout the year to earn new badges in our app  Beanstack or on our Beanstack website. This yearlong reading challenge is designed to help you keep track of your reading (books). Now is the time to try out new genres like Young Adult, Mystery, Thrillers, Nonfiction and even Fiction. No book is too long or too short to read. Challenge starts January 1st and ends December 31st, 2022.

Paper tracking sheets available upon request. ​

​Adults are you looking for a fun craft to make and wear? Stop by the library on Monday, February 7th and pick up this fun and easy Silk Scarves Kit that includes a silk scarf AND uses the dye from tissue paper. You will ring in the Chinese New Year in Style! Kits are limited and located at the circulation desk.

*Program made possible by the East Asia in Wisconsin Library Program award. The intent of this award is to give public libraries throughout Wisconsin the opportunity to enrich their collections with new titles. Award funding to be used to purchase books and materials or to support programming that will enable Wisconsin residents to deepen their understanding of East Asia, which encompasses China, Japan, the Koreas, Mongolia, Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

We want to create another Community Art Project!  Stop in to pick up your puzzle piece to make into your own piece of art. Paint (acrylic, oil, watercolor...), collage, use mixed media, 2D, 3D, or whatever you'd like on your piece. When we have them all collected, we will mount them and display our Community Art in the library for all to see.

Check out our Community Art Project from last year which is hanging in our program room for inspiration. 

Kits available to pick up via Sign Up beginning January 3rd so we can keep track of who has a piece.

​Pieces due back by February 7.

Explore our universe with the James Webb Space Telescope Challenge in our NASA @ My Library Challenge. Learn all about the science behind NASA’s newest space telescope mission, the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is the most advanced infrared space telescope ever launched and will allow us to look deeper into time and space than ever before!  This challenge offers activities and videos provided by NASA via the Beanstack app. 

Challenge runs Wednesday, December 1st to Thursday, December 31st. 

To sign up, visit our Beanstack page and be sure to download the Beanstack app (available for Apple and Android). 

Join us as we discuss The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell'Antonia. Books can be put on hold on infosoup  or by stopping in the library to place a hold with one of our friendly librarians. This book has large print, regular print and ebook editions available.   ​

Pick up a fun non-alcoholic kit on Monday, December 20th. This kit is designed for Adults to help give you ideas for the Holidays inspired and all non-alcoholic drinks! Kit includes 2-3 recipes and some ingredients. Participant is responsible for purchasing the rest of the ingredients.

Stop by the library on Saturday, November 27th from 10 am to 3 pm for a chance to win 1 of 3 prizes and to participate in a scavenger hunt! For each library scavenger hunt form turned in day of, you receive a coupon to the Algoma Book Corner! 

Stop by the library on Friday, November 26th between 10 am and 6 pm to check out our Black Friday Deals! We will have 1/2 off copies and scans, Free coffee (while supplies last), a chance to enter to win 1 of 3 prizes, 1/2 off on Adult fines (Billed or damaged items not eligible) - card holder must be present to be eligible, checkout 5 books get a coupon to the Book Corner for a free book  AND free Library Card Replacement OR get your first library card! 

Our Doorbusters 10 am - 1 pm are 1/2 off of copies and scans and 1/2 off on Adult Fines. 

Join us as we discuss The Giver of Stars by Jo Jo Moyes on ​Tuesday, November 16th at 1 pm. Books can be put on hold on infosoup  or by stopping in the library to place a hold with one of our friendly librarians. This book has large print, regular print and ebook editions available.   ​

In early November, the Algoma Public Library is encouraging it's community to Give Thanks to friends, neighbors, public officials, volunteers, teachers, and more. If you would like to Give Thanks, submissions will be taken on our website (www.algomapubliclibrary.org), through email (sent to alg@algomapubliclibrary.org), or in the Library through an anonymous submission jar.

From November 15th to the 19th, those wonderful moments of thankfulness will be posted in the Library for the whole community to see. In addition to being at the library, the Local Cable Network will be airing our Give Thanks video during Give Thanks Week! 

If you would like to take part, please keep in mind not to include your or other people's personal information without their consent. It is very important that as we give thanks, we also respect people's privacy. ​