Need to renew your library books? Read some eBooks? Stream videos and music? There's an app for that. Introducing PPL Mobile, the Plainfield Library mobile app! The app is available through both the iTunes (http://goo.gl/WtkU0q) and Google Play (http://goo.gl/Hdr5qW) stores for free. Just visit the links listed, or search for...
The votes have been tallied, and our first ever Online Book Club title has been chosen! The October reading selection is "The Bees" by Laline Paul, this "richly imagined" tale told from the perspective of a bee in a colony is a "wild ride" and reminiscent...
Are you a beer aficionado, or do you just enjoy trying new brews? Either way you'll have a blast on Saturday, Oct. 11 at our 3rd Annual Beer Tasting fundraiser with Black Swan Brewpub and Three Pints Brewpub. Tickets to this one-of-a-kind event are $8 each...
Read something you're not supposed to during Banned Books Week, September 21-27. Our friends at Downtown Comics have sponsored several free, awesome events for all ages this week to celebrate Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week Bookmarks: All week long (Sept. 21-27) in area T teens are...
Summer Reading Club 2014 is officially over, and all prize winners have been drawn and notified. Meet Stephanie, the winner of our grand prize, a year long membership to the Rec Center for her and her family! Stephanie read A LOT of books this summer...
Join us on Tuesday, September 2 from 6:30-7:30 at Black Swan Brew Pub for Books on Tap! This book club will meet once monthly to celebrate and discuss the finer things...
On August 26, 1920 women finally won a 72-year campaign that began in Seneca Falls, NY! The Women Suffrage Amendment was ratified, giving women full voting rights. In 1971 Representative Bella Abzug was able to get a resolution passed that designated August 26 as Women's...
Support the library through your Barnes & Noble purchase at Frozen Friday: Cool Off With Olaf on August 1st! Joanna, Kate, and Laura B from the library will be at the Metropolis Barnes & Noble from 11:00am - 8:00pm on Friday, August 1st. Disney's Frozen is the...
Celebrate National Library Week with us April 13th-19th by sharing how the library has changed your life. When you come to the library this week, stop by the large display case and decorate a card or paper that answers one of our three questions: "Why did...
Photo taken by John PhelanLittle Free Libraries is a non-profit movement throughout the world that offers free books housed in small containers to members of a local community. The idea for Little Free Libraies began with a gentleman named Todd Bol from Hudson, Wisconsin as...