Join us for a special storytime presented by local children's book author, Lisa Williams, where she will be reading her latest release, Soulfire. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing after the event! The event is taking place at 10:00 am on Thursday, September 10, 2026. This is geared for children ages 3 and up. Registration is required. Sign up through our calendar here.
Come shop during regular library hours in our community room! The sale starts for the general public on Tuesday, August 4th, when we open, at 9:30 am.
Books are sold by free-will donation.
Please make plans to support the Friends' of the Library group. Money raised goes towards reading incentives, programming, and new materials for the library.
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!
Our next meetup is Thursday, August 20th from 6:30-7:30 pm in the Library's new and improved Community Room.
This month we are all using Rick Martinez's Salsa Daddy!
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.
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!
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 is going to be hosting a drop-in Puzzle Exchange in the Community Room of the Library on Saturday, September 19th from 10 am - 1 pm. Come in during that time to browse our patron-provided puzzle collection. Check out the event on our calendar here.
On the day of the exchange, drop off your gently used puzzles, peruse the available puzzles, take what looks interesting to you, and leave the rest for someone else to enjoy.
Registration will begins soon for story times (designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver present) and story hours (for 3-5 year olds not yet in kindergarten). Registration for fall LEGO Clubs (grades K-5) will begin on Tuesday, Sepstember 1st as well.
Registration will continue through September 12th or when sessions fill up, whichever happens first.
They are both ten week sessions with breaks the weeks of October 12th and November 23rd.