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In celebration of Archaeology Month, local archaeologist John Flood will present a program on the excavations and findings at the Starbuck Farmstead near Plainfield. Flood and his colleagues at Stantec conducted geophysical and archaeological testing and located pottery kilns and other artifacts at the southeastern...
August is here, kids are returning to school, and temperatures are still higher than some of us like! This may be a good time to see what’s new in the Friends of the Plainfield Library (FOL) Silent Auction. One of the highlights of the auction...
If you've visited the library in the past couple of days, you've seen our newly arrived self-check units (still in some packaging to protect them until they are fully installed.) Once the last pieces come in, we expect these new units to be operation sometime...
The Library will be closed Monday, May 30th for Memorial Day. Our Evergreen servers will be down for maintenance over the holiday weekend as well, which will limit access to our catalog and many of our digital resources like Overdrive, Libby, and Hoopla. We apologize...
The Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library is partnering with the Versiti Blood Center of Indiana on Monday, May 16 from 1:30-5:30p. There is a critical shortage of blood donations nationwide, and this shortage directly affects hospitals locally in Indiana. To register to donate blood visit www.Versiti.org...
Bridgerton was one of the biggest Netflix hits of 2021 with over 82 million households across the world watching the series. The show reawakened a love for the Regency Romance genre, with many people falling in love with the whole Bridgerton family. Better yet, season...
On Tuesday, March 1 a new state-wide OverDrive consortium - the Indiana Digital Library - will go live. If you're already a using OverDrive or Libby to access e-books and e-audiobooks, all of your checkouts, holds and wishlists will automatically transfer! Because of the scale...
The Indiana State Library has announced the formation of a new statewide e-book consortium, the Indiana Digital Library, launching on March 1. Nearly 200 public libraries in the state- including the Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library - will all share the OverDrive platform to create a...
Celebrate International Women's Day with a performance from storyteller Sally Perkins! "For the Love of May" is the story of May Wright Sewall, an influential educator, suffragist, and peace advocate. Sally Perkins, a long-time professional storyteller, depicts the life of May Wright Sewall in an engaging...