Ellettsville Branch

Summer Reading Program Arrives!

 Join us for the 2012 Summer Reading Program at the Monroe County Public Library.

At the Ellettsville Branch you can participate in free programs and get your reading Guide to win prizes.

Registration for programs begins May 25 online and at the branch and the Guide will be given away starting May 29!Dream Big Read! Poster

Bookstore Clearance Sale at the Branch

If you like to buy good books for very little money, come to the library this weekend. The Friends of the Library are having a bookstore clearance sale in the meeting room at the Ellettsville Branch. On Friday, all books are selling for 50 cents to a dollar. Saturday, prices are reduced by 50%. Sunday, you can fill a bag with books for $3.00.

Sale hours are:

  • Friday, 5/11, 10-6
  • Saturday, 5/12, 9-5
  • Sunday, 5/13, 1-3

Every book you buy helps support library programs, collections, and staff development. Come early, stay late, and take home a bag of great reads!

Rachel Peden and Her Life on Maple Grove Road

ISBN: 
9780253222299

The Friends of the Library held a "Coffee with Friends" event at the Ellettsville Branch for the first time on Sunday, April 22nd. In keeping with Earth Day, area resident Rachel Peden McCarty talked about her grandmother, Rachel Peden, and her life on Maple Grove Road. For more than 20 years, Mrs. Peden wrote a column for the Indianapolis Star called "Mrs. R.F.D." that shared vignettes and observations about what it was like to live on a small Hoosier farm. She also penned three books: The Land, the People; Rural Free; and Speak to the Earth that have been recently reprinted by the I.U. Press. It's amazing how these books written forty or more years ago are still fresh, relevant, and inspirational!

Spring at the Ellettsville Branch

Spring at the Ellettsville BranchIt's spring! The Bradford pear tree in front of the Ellettsville Branch Library is in full bloom, and the grass already needs to be mowed.

If warm weather has you thinking about digging in the dirt, take a peek at our selection of gardening books. Flowers, vegetables, decorative grasses--we've got information to help your garden grow!

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