This week is a party celebrating those who have participated in the Summer Reading Challenge. If you joined the Teen Summer Reading Program you will receive an invitation. For ages 12-18. To sign up for the Teen Summer Reading Program or for questions please call 570-821-1959.
July is a Time to Celebrate Real Life Heroes! Showing: The Miracle Worker (1962). This film shares the story of Anne Sullivan as she teaches a blind and deaf Helen Keller to communicate. Starring Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, and Victor Jory. Popcorn will be provided! Movies sponsored by Clayton & Theresa Karambelas.
Learn, Share, & Knit or Crochet! Bring your yarn and knitting needles or crochet hooks to this FREE gathering. Beginners and all ages are welcome. Light refreshments will be available!
Join us for our Toddler Storytime! For ages 2 to 3 1/2, registration required. Please call the Youth Services Desk at (570) 823-0156 ext. 217.
Join us for our Toddler Storytime! For ages 2 to 3 1/2, registration required. Please call the Youth Services Desk at (570) 823-0156 ext. 217.
Join us for our Toddler Storytime! For ages 2 to 3 1/2, registration required. Please call the Youth Services Desk at (570) 823-0156 ext. 217.
Have fun showing off your trivia aptitude and win a prize! FREE with light refreshments.
There will be no Teen Night this week.
Come to our new open-ended book discussion! Learn about new titles and genres and expand your overall reading experience! FREE with light snacks provided.
July is a Time to Celebrate Real Life Heroes! Showing: Stand and Deliver (1988). Jaime Escalante is a high school teacher who uses unconventional teaching technics to become an inspiration to his dropout prone students. Starring Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, and Mark Phelan. Popcorn will be provided! Movies sponsored by Clayton & Theresa Karambelas.
Celebrate the local art and history of Wilkes-Barre! Take a walking tour of the permanent art collection in the library. Welcome special guest author Heather Harlen as she reads from and discusses her thriller Hope You Guess My Name. Free refreshments will be provided.
Meet author Jo Piazza O'Mara as she discusses and reads from her book Garden of Hope, a novel which follows the seemingly perfect Agosti family as they struggle to reconcile after a harrowing secret is revealed. Free, with light refreshments. For questions or to make a reservation please call 570-821-1959.
Meet author Leslie Golding Mastroianni as she discusses and reads from her book Buying a Year. This novel follows the young divorcee Sharon as she lives frugally and does her best to balance the pressures of family and career in the midst of a group of comical and passionate characters. Free, with light refreshments. For […]
Join us for the annual Osterhout Free Library Gala from 6-11pm at the Westmoreland Club in downtown Wilkes-Barre. The gala has a Breakfast at Tiffany's theme to honor the well-known Truman Capote book and Audrey Hepburn movie. Reservations are $150 per person. That includes valet parking, open bar all night long, an exquisite dinner and […]
Join us for the first meeting of the Teen Book Club! We don't have a selection this month, but we'll still talk about books and select future titles, eat food and come up with a name!
Every Wednesday night from 6-7:30pm in the Reading Room we have a Teen Night event. Come enjoy each week's offering, eat food, make new friends and just relax. This week we have Creativity Hour! If you like to write, draw or do crafts, then this is the event for you! Writing prompts and tips, drawing […]
Discuss, listen to, and raise questions about a chosen topic with our Socrates Cafe Discussion Group every second Thursday in the Reading Room.
Special Friday Storytime!
Join us every Friday for a themed movie selection and popcorn. Yum!
Knit and crochet club. New members welcome. Light refreshments!
Join us for Scratch Day! Make a Banana Piano!
Books, Baskets & Bake Sale Flyer
Join the Teen Library Council (TLC) and let your voice be heard! We meet every third Wednesday of the month from 5-5:45pm in the Reading Room. Hope to see you there!
Every Wednesday night from 6-7:30pm in the Reading Room we have a Teen Night event. Come enjoy each week's offering, eat food, make new friends and just relax. This week we will be coloring!! We'll have coloring pages for Doctor Who, Deadpool, Pokemon, Fairy Tail, and many more. See you there!
Join us for storytimes and bookmark making at the Fine Arts Fiesta Children's Tent. For location and other information about Fine Arts Fiesta click here. Thursday, May 19 & Friday, May 20 10:00 A.M. – Make and Take Book Marks; Osterhout Free Library 10:30 A.M. – Story Telling; Osterhout Free Library 11:30 A.M. – Make […]
Join us at our South Branch for our weekly Read to a Dog program. Each week, kids have the opportunity to read a picture book to a furry friend.
Lively book discussion every month. Light refreshments served.
Join us for storytimes and bookmark making at the Fine Arts Fiesta Children's Tent. For location and other information about Fine Arts Fiesta click here. Thursday, May 19 & Friday, May 20 10:00 A.M. – Make and Take Book Marks; Osterhout Free Library 10:30 A.M. – Story Telling; Osterhout Free Library 11:30 A.M. – Make […]
Join us every Friday for a themed movie selection and popcorn. Yum!
As part of Wilkes-Barre's 3rd Friday Art Walk, the members and patrons of the library will be reading poems, stories and other excerpts in the Reading Room.
