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Pagemasters is Archbold's newest bookclub!

It's new! It's inclusive! It's free-form! It's casual! It's not your typical book club!

What Pagemasters is all about:

It's a flexible, safe space to discuss, read, and make connections. It's welcome to all readers and all books! Pagemasters meets once a month to unwind and take a break from the daily grind. Join us for good people and good books!

First of all...what is early literacy?

Early literacy is everything a child knows about reading and writing before they actually are proficient readers and writers.

What is an Early Literacy Center?

An early literacy center is a place that caregivers and babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-agers up through third grade can go TOGETHER to do the work of emerging and beginning readers and the work of childhood is play. 

What is it? How does it work?

Cookin' by the Book is a cooking book club!

Most months, we each check out a copy of the same cookbook, cook a recipe from that book, and bring what we made to share at the meeting! It's a great way to find good recipes and try new foods, and make new friends! 

When is it happening?

Our next meetup is Thursday, December 18th from 6:30-7:30 pm in the Library's new and improved Community Room.

Gathering Volumes, Archbold Community Library, and Ohio Northern University Rudolph H. Raabe College of Pharmacy are excited to host a virtual visit with Eric Eyre, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Death in Mud Lick, named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and nominated for a 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Mr. Eyre will be speaking with the community virtually on the day of the paperback release of Death in Mud Lick, Tuesday, April 6, at 6:30 PM.

The Archbold Community Library's annual magazine giveaway will start at 9:30 am on Monday, April 6th.

Are you an avid cook, carpenter, gardener, birder, news junkie, or quilter? We've got a magazine for that!

Come take advantage as we let go of our 2025 issues to make room for all that 2026 has to offer!

There will be magazines for all age groups from kids to teen to adults! Find them in the bay window area of the main reading room of the Library.

Monetary donations are welcome, but not expected. Tell a friend!

Cookin' by the Book is a cooking book club!

Most months, we each check out a copy of the same cookbook, cook a recipe from that book, and bring what we made to share at that month's meeting! It's a great way to find good recipes, try new foods, and make new friends! 

When is it happening?

Our next meetup is Thursday, March 26th from 6:30-7:30 pm in the Library's new and improved Community Room.

This month we are all using Sam Sifton's See You On Sunday. Check out your copy at the circulation desk today!

It's casual! It's not your typical book club!

What Pagemasters is all about:

It's a flexible, safe space to discuss, read, and make connections. It's welcome to all readers and all books! Pagemasters meets once a month to unwind and take a break from the daily grind. Join us for good people and good books!

With the usual book clubs, there's often the scramble to finish the selected book, and the pressure to have something witty to say. Wouldn't it be great to have a book club where you could just enjoy books and company...without the homework?

The schedule for spring LEGO Clubs:

LEGO Club is for kids in grades K-5. Generally, grades K-2 meet the first Wednesday of the month February through April from 3:30-4:30 pm and grades 3-5 meet the third Wednesday of the month from 3:30 - 4:30 pm.

Grades K-2

February 4th

March 4th

April 1st

Grades 3-5

February 11th

March 18th

April 15th