Upcoming Events

Join us as we discuss I Walk Between The Raindrops by T.C. Boyle!

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.

Conversation Group.

No agenda. We gather, we eat cake, and we talk. Discussions include all things related to life, death, and the finality of it. Open, non-judgmental, and honest conversation about topics we don’t discuss much.

This movie is a historical event for the City of Rock Island, and is an extra-special feature to top off this year's series of videos about the Rock Island Line railroad.

The Southwest Branch of the Rock Island Public Library opened its doors to the public 50 years ago on today's date, September 25, 1974.

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.

We welcome the LEAD Friday groups from Eugene Field Elementary to the library to learn about library cards, our collection, programs and be reading leaders!

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.

Using the stipulations of book banning laws such as that passed in 2023 by the Iowa legislature and signed into law by their Gorvernor, Kim Reynolds, and looking at the restrictions of similar laws recently enacted in other states of our republic,

Join the Army Sustainment Command Historians as they explore the history of the Rock Island Arsenal, the US Military, and the Quad Cities. This year, the lecture series will explore the U.S. Civil War at both a national and local level.

Monthly meeting of the Rock Island Public Library Board of Trustees. Time is available for public comment during the meeting. 

Join us as we discuss Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America by Joy-Ann R

Board game fans: come to the Downtown Library for an afternoon of fun! Learn to play new games, or rediscover an old favorite. (Note that some games will be available for checkout during this event.)

Do you love to knit or crochet? We would love for you to join our Adult Knitting Circle!

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.

2024 Frieze Lecture Series details to come!

Quarterly book sales, fourth Friday and Saturday, from the Library Foundation's PALS (People Advocating for Library Services). Bag up great deals on books and other items on the last sale of this year.

Quarterly book sales, fourth Friday and Saturday, from the Library Foundation's PALS (People Advocating for Library Services). Bag up great deals on books and other items. It's the last sale for this year, so don't miss it! October.

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.