SCA Medieval Combat Demonstration

Tuesday, July 7th 

6 pm

Southwest Library 

Ages 10 and up

The SCA will be around to demonstrate their fighting skills, talk about what it would be like to be a fighter in Medieval Times and how they make their weapons.

Saturday, April 16, Preserve Your Story- Photo Preservation and Scrapbooking Workshop. 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Learn how to preserve your family photos and other treasures with Bobbi Jackson, director with the Rock Island County Historical Society. In the scrapbooking portion of our workshop, you’ll build a special family tree vintage photo layout page with the help of scrapbook artist Stacy Rodriugez.

Scrapbook workshop limited to 20 people; sign up required. Free: All materials provided. To sign up, call 309-732-7303 or e-mail Lockheart.lisa@rigov.org

Part of National Library Week, which encourages you to Create Your Own Story @ your Library.

National Library Week Event: Everyone Has a Story. What’s Yours? A class on the art and craft of memoir writing with Minda Powers-Douglas. Learn how to tell the story of your life – and leave behind a great gift for someone special. 6:00 p.m., Rock Island Main Library, 401 19^th Street. Free. 309-732-7303 or www.rockislandlibrary.org

Part of National Library Week, which encourages you to Create Your Own Story @ Your Library.  Sign up appreciated, but not required. To RSVP, call 309-732-7303 or lockheart.lisa@rigov.org

Super Saturday Free Tax Preparation Day. Rock Island Main Library Community Room, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free tax preparation assistance from trained VITA and AARP Tax Aide volunteers. Presented by United Way, Rock Island Library and community partners, with grant funds from Scott County Regional Authority. Please note that the library is providing the site only and cannot answer tax questions. 

FRIDAY FEST

HAPPY FEET

MAIN LIBRARY-COMMUNITY ROOM @ 1:30 P.M.

FAMILY STORYTIME

MAIN LIBRARY- CHILDREN'S ROOM

SPEND FAMILY TIME SHARING STORIES, ACTIVITY, CRAFT AND FUN.

FAMILY STORYTIME

Main Library at 5:00

Bring the family in to share stories, fingerplays and a craft.   

FAMILY STORYTIME

Main Library at 5:00

Bring the family in to share stories, fingerplays and a craft.   

FAMILY STORYTIME

Main Library at 5:00

Bring the family in to share stories, fingerplays and a craft about grandmothers.

The Rock Island Library’s HUG-A-Book reading event is Thursday, August 26, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., in the Main Library Community Room at 401 19^th Street.   HUG-A-Book is an annual early learning program for children ages two to five and their families. Each child gets a new, free book of their very own to hug and take home, courtesy of the Merrill Harris memorial fund of the Rock Island Public Library Foundation. Children and their families can come meet our costumed characters, hear a story or two, sing a song, make some crafts and get a free book. The event is free.