If you and your child are in the area, pop on in and register for our Summer Reading Program starting today!

This year the program is for children starting at age 3 and running through the 8th grade. The theme this year is “Build a Better World”

There will be numerous fun programs / activities / prizes. The first event will be Bonnie Hill – Books and Buckets a fun participatory music program at 11am Friday, June 2nd.

USD 434 Parents as Teachers is holding a Puzzle Play Group Connection Thursday, April 6th at the Overbrook Public Library from 6:00pm-7:00pm, featuring a special guest!! Our local superintendent Dr. Steve Pegram has agreed to read a story for the kids.

Any Child 0-6 will have a fun time exploring puzzle play alongside their parents. A small snack / refreshments will be provided and each child will be entered to win a door prize.

Contact Tosha Bien, Parent Educator at 785-230-6398 for more information

The Overbrook library has a big selection of specialty bakeware to lend out (175 items), but did you know 28 of those are Character cake pans, including several Sesame Street Characters, Esmeralda, Dora, Superhero & He-Man, Taz, Winnie the Pooh, G.I. Joe, Mickey Mouse, Scooby Doo, Garfield and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? Looking for something specific? You can browse our binder of items on the bakeware display, or browse from the website, or come by and ask. If we don’t have it, we might be able to get it from another library who has cake pans to loan out. 

We’re very excited to be hosting a pair of gardening classes presented by the Frontier Extension District #11 coming up in march. Please come out and hear all about the wonders of starting / maintaining your own garden on Thursday March 2nd and Thursday March 30th.

We hope you will join us to learn how to make your garden amazing this summer!

Information on Master Gardener Classes will also be available at both sessions.

Looking for tasty snack ideas and some fun themed pans for “The Big Game” next weekend?

We’ve got some great recipes and specialty pans available in our bakeware display including recipes for unusual treats like Bacon Popcorn, Enchilada Meatballs, and something called “Dirty Diapers”! Are they delicious? With a name like that they had better be!

You can also pick up a football movie from our display to get you pumped up while the oven is pre-heating.

Join us at the library on Saturday, January 21st at 10am for a meet and greet / book signing with local author Su Colstrom for her fun and educational children’s book: It’s Hard to Hug a Cow!

Refreshments and fun will be had by all! Hope to see you here!

Are you still out cruising for last minute Christmas Gifts? Tickets to the Library Foundation Dinner Theater at the end of January are available at the library.

Float on in and pick one up today!

Did you know the Overbrook Public Library now contains 165 bakeware items you can borrow? With the end of the year holidays fast approaching, you should browse the list or stop by and look through the book to get your selections for delicious treats to share with your family and friends or as gifts.  Click on this link to the PDF document of items. bakeware-inventory

The Library Board meeting dates have changed!

Meetings are now being held on the 2^nd Monday of the month at 7:00pm in the library conference room. Our next meeting is December 12th, 2016.