Have you received a new e-Reader, smartphone, tablet or other device? Do you want to know how to download free eBooks and audiobooks onto your portable reading or audio device with the library's Overdrive digital books subscription? Join us at the downtown Main Library, 401 19th Street, for a hands-on 'how-to' session.

Please bring your device, owner's manual and a laptop, if you have one.  We'll go through the process, step-by-step.

Movie Night

Thursday, July 28th

5:30-7:30 pm

Main Library 2nd floor

Come watch a movie and enjoy popcorn!

Movie could be rated R.

Questions? Contact Natalie, 732-7330 or struecker.natalie@rigov.org

Quidditch Games

Monday, July 11th

6:00 pm

Southwest Library

Ages 8-18

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!  Want to learn how to play Muggle Quidditch?  We'll get a couple of games going, after explaining the rules.

You can register as one person or register as a team.  Please register at 732-7360. 

Harry Potter Night

Thursday, July 14th

4:30-7:30 pm

Main Library 2nd floor

Come for a night of Harry Potter!  We'll show a movie, have some food, and a craft or two!

Movie rated PG-13.

Belegarth Medieval Combat

Tuesday, June 7th

5:30-7:00 pm

Southwest Library

Ages 10 and up

The Belegarth Medieval Combat Society 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.

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

Friends of the Library meetings: 2nd Monday of each month, program and lunch, First Baptist Church, Rock Island. Cost for lunch: $6. Reservations required. Call Kathy Galley at 786-5293  to RSVP. Membership information. Program by the Rock Island High School Jazz Band. Menu: Ham, macaroni and cheese, Watergate salad, cookies.

Friends of the Library meetings: 2^nd Monday of each month, program and lunch, First Baptist Church, Rock Island. Cost for lunch: $6. Reservations required. Call Kathy Galley at 786-5293 to RSVP. Membership information.

Speaker is Bill Albrecht, on the topic, “My Years with the Secret Service.” Menu: Roast Pork, baby red potatoes, carrot and raisin salad, lemon pie.

Friends of the Library meeting, program and lunch.  First Baptist Church, corner of 31st Avenue and 30th Street, Rock Island. Cost for lunch: $6. Reservations required. Call Kathy Galley at 786-5293 to RSVP. Membership information.

Friends of the Library meeting, program and lunch.  First Baptist Church, corner of 31st Avenue and 30th Street, Rock Island. Cost for lunch: $6. Reservations required. Call Kathy Galley at 786-5293 to RSVP. Membership information.

Program by the City of Rock Island Public Works department, on “programs for residents.” Menu: Meatloaf, baked potatoes with butter, sour cream and cheese, cherry pie.