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.
Story Time
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
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!
Antrim Raising Writers: Tales from the Language Lab! *ZOOM*
Free Writing Class for Middle School kids
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
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 @ Pearl’s
How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.
Story Time
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
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!
Antrim Raising Writers: Tales from the Language Lab!
Free Writing Class for Middle School kids
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
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.
Foodie Book Club October
Join us at Art and Connection for our next Foodie Book Club. Stop by the library to choose your recipe. BYOB and join us with your recipe 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.
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! It’s getting nice out and 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.
Pokemon Club
Each month trainers are invited to show off their cards, play the Pokemon board game and do a craft. This club is best for trainers 8+
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.
Story Time
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
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! It’s getting nice out and 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.
Island House Readers Book Club:James by Percival Everett
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
Books on Tap @ Ethanology
Kate Quinn’s “The Briar Club” is a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
Pokemon Club
Each month trainers are invited to show off their cards, play the Pokemon board game and do a craft. This club is best for trainers 8+
Pokemon Club
Each month trainers are invited to show off their cards, play the Pokemon board game and do a craft. This club is best for trainers 8+
Destination Story Time
Apple Picking, stories, hay bale maze, kids activities and all sorts of family fun! This storytime is appropriate for most ages. Bring the whole family and a camp chair or blanket.
What to Expect:
Engaging story
Early literacy skill-building activities
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.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
Antrim Raising Writers: Tales from the Language Lab! *ZOOM*
Free Writing Class for Middle School kids
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
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
Island House Readers Book Club: This is Happiness by Niall Williams
You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed.
The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.
This is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries.
Niall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.
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.
National Library Card Sign Up Month - Book Bike Pop Up
One Card, Endless Possibilities: Celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month this September
This September, Elk Rapids District Library invites you to celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month and discover how a single card can open the door to endless opportunities.
With a library card, you can do more than check out books. From free classes and job resources to tech help, streaming media, and cultural events, today’s libraries connect communities to information, inspiration, and each other.
This year’s theme, “One Card, Endless Possibilities,” is a reminder that libraries are for everyone—no matter your age, background, or goals. Whether you're diving into a new hobby, searching for your next great read, brushing up on tech skills, or helping your child succeed in school, it all starts with a library card.
At the Elk Rapids District Library, you’ll find:
Books & DVDs, MelCat, Libby, Wifi Hotspots, computer check out, Library of Things
Programs and events for all ages—from storytimes and book clubs to craft workshops and tech help
Getting a library card is free, easy, and empowering. For students, it’s a key to academic success. For adults, it’s a gateway to lifelong learning. For everyone, it’s a smart way to stay connected to your community.
Find us throughout September for special Library Card Sign-Up Month pop-up events!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
Preplanning Seminar by Reynolds Jonkhoff
Join Reynolds Jonkhoff Funeral Home and Cremation Services at the Elk Rapids District Library, where they will discuss how preplanning your final wishes can shield your family from unnecessary emotional and financial burden. Snacks and $20 in Elk Rapids Chamber Bucks for everyone in attendance.
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.
Foodie Book Club September
Join us at Art and Connection for our last meeting before we take a summer break. Stop by the library to choose your recipe. BYOB and join us with your recipe 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.
Pokemon Club
Each month trainers are invited to show off their cards, play the Pokemon board game and do a craft. This club is best for trainers 8+
National Library Card Sign Up Month - Book Bike Pop Up
One Card, Endless Possibilities: Celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month this September
This September, Elk Rapids District Library invites you to celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month and discover how a single card can open the door to endless opportunities.
With a library card, you can do more than check out books. From free classes and job resources to tech help, streaming media, and cultural events, today’s libraries connect communities to information, inspiration, and each other.
This year’s theme, “One Card, Endless Possibilities,” is a reminder that libraries are for everyone—no matter your age, background, or goals. Whether you're diving into a new hobby, searching for your next great read, brushing up on tech skills, or helping your child succeed in school, it all starts with a library card.
At the Elk Rapids District Library, you’ll find:
Books & DVDs, MelCat, Libby, Wifi Hotspots, computer check out, Library of Things
Programs and events for all ages—from storytimes and book clubs to craft workshops and tech help
Getting a library card is free, easy, and empowering. For students, it’s a key to academic success. For adults, it’s a gateway to lifelong learning. For everyone, it’s a smart way to stay connected to your community.
Find us throughout September for special Library Card Sign-Up Month pop-up events!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and 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.
Seed Harvesting Class
Help support the ERDL Seed Library by learning how to harvest seeds from your own garden! Antrim Conservation District and CAKE CISMA will be teaching us techniques for seed saving.
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.
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! It’s getting nice out and 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.
Antrim Raising Writers: Tales from the Language Lab!
Free Writing Class for Middle School kids
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.
Books on Tap @ Riverwalk Grill
Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in “Bright Young Women.” This book is a fascinating look at true crime and tabloid culture that's as thoughtful as it is gripping
Introduction to Salmon Fishing
Back by popular demand, Don Reynolds is returning to the library for another fishing presentation - this time, it’s all about SALMON!
Join us at the library for a fun and informative program all about salmon fishing. Whether you are brand new to fishing or an experienced angler, you’ll pick up on tips, tricks, and local know-how on where and how to catch the big one!
Registration encouraged, but not required.
