Events Calendar
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Books on Tap @ Townline Ciderworks
A compulsive liar becomes nanny to a glamorous couple by deceiving them, unaware she's stepped into a home full of dangerous secrets ready to unravel.
A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the library and on Libby. Copies can also be requested through MEL.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
After School Drop In For Tweens & Teens
Join us for a writing workshop at the Elk Rapids Library on September 24th. Carolyn Wilson-Scott, an experienced freelance editor, will work with attendees as they explore the nuances of writing their first memoir.
Registration is required.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Friends of the Library Meeting
Join us for our monthly meeting at the Cairn Hwy Building.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Fishing Q & A
Join us at the library for a Fishing Q & A with our resident expert Don Reynolds. Whether you’re brand new to fishing or an experienced angler you’ll pick up tips, tricks, and local know-how for fishing our beautiful lakes.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Island House Readers Book Club: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town's most respected gentlemen.
Foodie Book Club November
Join us at Art and Connection for our next Foodie Book Club. Stop by the library to choose your recipe. Join us with your dish to talk all things food and cooking.
Books on Tap @ Ethanology
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the library and on Libby. Copies can also be requested through MEL.
Books on Tap @ Town Club
A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals.
A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the library and on Libby. Copies can also be requested through MEL.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Fall, Flannel and Friends
Bring a friend (or a few!) and raise a glass to support the Friends of the Elk Rapids District Library.
Enjoy a cozy fall evening with cider and great company — and feel good knowing that all proceeds go directly to help the Friends continue their amazing work for our library and community.
See you there in your favorite flannel!
Purchase tickets here.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Island House Readers Book Club: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Richard Russo is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and resurfaces fifty years later in Hollywood. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, this is a dazzling, yet deeply human roller coaster of a novel.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! Pick the day that works best for your family.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Foodie Book Club September
Join us at Art and Connection for our next Foodie Book Club. Stop by the library to choose your recipe. Join us with your dish to talk all things food and cooking.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Memoir Writing Workshop
Join us for a writing workshop at the Elk Rapids Library on September 24th. Carolyn Wilson-Scott, an experienced freelance editor, will work with attendees as they explore the nuances of writing their first memoir.
Registration is required.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Tech Help @ the Library (Copy)
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! We will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!