Disfrute una noche de Películas gratuita en la biblioteca. Hoy estamos viendo “Blue Beetle.” Enjoy a free PG-13 movie night at the library. Today we are watching “Blue Beetle.”
Learn how to connect to Wi-Fi, use Password Keeper, add and delete apps, utilize the Cloud, create ICE contacts, and explore the basics of their device's camera. Participants need to bring their own device to engage in hands-on practice. Duration: 1 hour. To register, contact Jenn at 574-533-0554 or email fink24@purdue.edu. Program in partnership with […]
Join us as we talk, read, write, sing, and play our way into learning. This program focuses on 2-4 year old learners. This program will focus on developing very beginning, early literacy skills. No registration is necessary. Intended audience: 2-4 year olds.
A Journey into the Hidden World of Tropical Bats with Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Join us in kicking off October as we welcome three Smithsonian-affiliated scientists to teach us about the remarkable world of tropical bats! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
¡Ven a Jugar y Aprender con Adriana! Invitamos a niños y a niñas de 0 a 5 años y a sus familias para participar en actividades que promueven la alfabetización temprana. ¡Vamos a hablar, cantar, leer, escribir, y jugar, para que estemos listos para leer! Come play and learn with Adriana! We invite children ages […]
Where: Teen Space Stop by from 3:30-5:30 pm every Thursday to grab a coffee drink, make some crafts, study, play a board game, color, or just hang out with your friends. Enjoy a different activity each week. This week we’re tasting different varieties of apples! Open to grades 7-12.
Open to 3rd-6th graders, drop in to hangout and join us in an activity, craft, or games. Come anytime within the hour to join the activity. No sign up is required. This week's activity will be Switch Gaming!
Join us for a book reading and Q&A session with two Goshen College alumni and co-authors! Fran Martens Friesen and Mary Ann Zehr will read from their memoir about being English teachers in China in the 1980s, when China was reopening to the West. In their book, Doors Cracked Open: Teaching in a Chinese Closed City […]
Open to grades 7-12. Join other LGBTQIA+ youth and allies for a fun social gathering on the 1st Saturday of each month. Enjoy board games, crafts, & snacks while hanging out with other teens. Bring a favorite game to play if you’d like. No registration required.
Special Shadow Puppet Storytime for Hispanic Heritage Month! Experience the special storytime retelling of a classic fable, The Ancient Night, told with shadow puppets. Join us as we talk, read, write, sing, and play our way into learning. This program focuses on 2-4 year old learners. This program will focus on developing very beginning, early […]
¡Ven a Jugar y Aprender con Adriana! Invitamos a niños y a niñas de 0 a 5 años y a sus familias para participar en actividades que promueven la alfabetización temprana. ¡Vamos a hablar, cantar, leer, escribir, y jugar, para que estemos listos para leer! Come play and learn with Adriana! We invite children ages […]
Liberating Latin American Genre Fiction: In Conversation with Bestselling Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia You’re invited to free your mind with the highly acclaimed Silvia Moreno-Garcia, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of several novels including Mexican Gothic, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and many more! CLICK HERE for more information […]
Where: Teen Space Stop by from 3:30-5:30 pm every Thursday to grab a coffee drink, make some crafts, study, play a board game, color, or just hang out with your friends. Enjoy a different activity each week. This week we’re doing a taste test of pumpkin spice flavored foods! Open to grades 7-12.
Join us as Indiana comic book writer, editor, & educator Paul Allor shares about their work! Paul won a Genre Award for their book Hollow Heart as part of the 2022 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. Paul has also written comics for some of the world’s biggest properties, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, […]
Open to grades 7-12. Come watch anime on the big screen, eat snacks, & hang out with other fans. This month we're also painting with watercolors! Registration not required; drop-ins welcome.
Disfrute una noche de Películas gratuita en la biblioteca. Hoy estamos viendo “Under the Same Moon.” Enjoy a free PG-13 movie night at the library. Today we are watching “Under the Same Moon.”
The public is welcome to attend all regular Library Board meetings. CLICK HERE for the agenda.
Join us as we talk, read, write, sing, and play our way into learning. This program focuses on 2-4 year old learners. This program will focus on developing very beginning, early literacy skills. No registration is necessary. Intended audience: 2-4 year olds.
The Indiana Department of Health will be on-site on Wednesay, October 16 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to provide a free walk-in vaccine clinic & COVID testing in the Goshen Public Library parking lot. — El Departamento de Salud de Indiana estará en el estacionamiento de la Biblioteca Pública de Goshen el miercoles 16 […]
Where: Teen Space Stop by from 3:30-5:30 pm every Thursday to grab a coffee drink, make some crafts, study, play a board game, color, or just hang out with your friends. Enjoy a different activity each week. This week we’re adding ghosts, pumpkins, & bats to existing paintings to make some seasonal art!! Open to grades […]
Open to 3rd-6th graders, drop in to hangout and join us in an activity, craft, or games. Come anytime within the hour to join the activity. No sign up is required. This week's activity will be Switch Gaming!
Open to 4th-6th graders, Artful Friday is a monthly program where creativity takes center stage, featuring diverse art projects and mediums. Each session invites participants to explore and express their artistic talents through hands-on activities. This month we'll be making clay figures from modeling clay! Sign up at bit.ly/artful-oct24.
Enjoy the artistic creations of students in the Young at Art Studio. Artwork is based on the theme “Into the Woods,” reflecting on nature, fall, and fairy tales. The art will be on display in the GPL stairway from October 14-18, and the drop-in reception will take place from 4-6 p.m. in the GPL auditorium. […]
Escuche música animada del conjunto de mariachis juveniles del condado de Elkhart, en asociación con el Centro de Música de Goshen College y ECoSistema. Listen to upbeat music by Elkhart County’s youth mariachi ensemble, in partnership with the Goshen College Music Center and ECoSistema.
¡Ven a Jugar y Aprender con Adriana! Invitamos a niños y a niñas de 0 a 5 años y a sus familias para participar en actividades que promueven la alfabetización temprana. ¡Vamos a hablar, cantar, leer, escribir, y jugar, para que estemos listos para leer! Come play and learn with Adriana! We invite children ages […]
Spend your Fall Break at the Library for some special, family-friendly movies! All movies are free and open to the public, there will be snacks provided! Movie Lineup Monday, October 21st: Casper (1995) Tuesday, October 22nd: The Garfield Movie (2024) Thursday, October 24th: Halloweentown (1998) Friday, October 25th: Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: Examining the Truths and Fictions we Tell Ourselves with Lori Gottlieb Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist’s couch—and some of these patients are therapists. In her remarkable book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and rigorous training, […]
Spend your Fall Break at the Library for some special, family-friendly movies! All movies are free and open to the public, there will be snacks provided! Movie Lineup Monday, October 21st: Casper (1995) Tuesday, October 22nd: The Garfield Movie (2024) Thursday, October 24th: Halloweentown (1998) Friday, October 25th: Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Have questions about childcare resources? Visit the table in the lobby to speak with a Childcare Navigator from Geminus Childcare Resource and Referral Network, whose mission is "connecting families to quality care."
¡Ven a Jugar y Aprender con Adriana! Invitamos a niños y a niñas de 0 a 5 años y a sus familias para participar en actividades que promueven la alfabetización temprana. ¡Vamos a hablar, cantar, leer, escribir, y jugar, para que estemos listos para leer! Come play and learn with Adriana! We invite children ages […]
The Indiana Department of Health will be on-site on Thursday, October 24 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to provide a free walk-in vaccine clinic & COVID testing in the Goshen Public Library parking lot. — El Departamento de Salud de Indiana estará en el estacionamiento de la Biblioteca Pública de Goshen el jueves 24 […]
Spend your Fall Break at the Library for some special, family-friendly movies! All movies are free and open to the public, there will be snacks provided! Movie Lineup Monday, October 21st: Casper (1995) Tuesday, October 22nd: The Garfield Movie (2024) Thursday, October 24th: Halloweentown (1998) Friday, October 25th: Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Spend your Fall Break at the Library for some special, family-friendly movies! All movies are free and open to the public, there will be snacks provided! Movie Lineup Monday, October 21st: Casper (1995) Tuesday, October 22nd: The Garfield Movie (2024) Thursday, October 24th: Halloweentown (1998) Friday, October 25th: Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Come to the Library and read to the greyhounds! The greyhounds love to lay and listen to kids read to them. This is a perfect opportunity for kids, who don’t normally like reading aloud, to practice in front of an audience that won’t judge or critique their reading skills. But the greyhounds aren’t coming for […]
Drop in to decorate your very own mini pumpkin for Halloween. Make it cute, or make it scary, it’s all up to you! (Note: we won’t be carving the pumpkins or using anything sharper than kid scissors for cutting paper and the like.) One pumpkin per person under the age of 18, pumpkins available while […]
Do you have questions about Open Enrollment? Need help figuring out your Medicaid or Healthcare Marketplace application? Come ask a Health Navigator from ASPIN (Affiliated Service Providers of Indiana, Inc.), a non-profit that helps navigate through healthcare needs. Stop by the library from 4-6 in the lobby to learn more!
Join us for book discussion, crafts, & more! Open to grades 7-12. Advance registration required; visit the Circulation desk or send an email. This month we're reading Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson. If you prefer digital resources, check out the ebook or audiobook from Overdrive.
Join us as we talk, read, write, sing, and play our way into learning. This program focuses on 2-4 year old learners. This program will focus on developing very beginning, early literacy skills. No registration is necessary. Intended audience: 2-4 year olds.
¡Ven a Jugar y Aprender con Adriana! Invitamos a niños y a niñas de 0 a 5 años y a sus familias para participar en actividades que promueven la alfabetización temprana. ¡Vamos a hablar, cantar, leer, escribir, y jugar, para que estemos listos para leer! Come play and learn with Adriana! We invite children ages […]
Where: Teen Space Stop by from 3:30-5:30 pm every Thursday to grab a coffee drink, make some crafts, study, play a board game, color, or just hang out with your friends. Enjoy a different activity each week. This week we’re making haunted terrariums! Open to grades 7-12.
Open to grades 7-12. Join other LGBTQIA+ youth and allies for a fun social gathering on the 1st Saturday of each month. Enjoy board games, crafts, & snacks while hanging out with other teens. Bring a favorite game to play if you’d like. No registration required.
