The annual Iowa City Book Festival will be held October 1-6, 2019. If you are a book lover and interested in exploring some amazing authors, this is a wonderful opportunity! The Book Festival includes author events with Raj Patel, John Sanford, James Geary, Kei Miller, Lauren Markham, Don Waters and so much more. Events take… View more
One of our newest digital resources, hoopla, provides access to a variety of movies, music, ebooks, and audiobooks, all at your fingertips with your library card. You can download the hoopla app or visit the website and login with your card number to begin streaming your favorite things. If you are a fan of The Gone… View more
Fall is here and that means it’s time for a new batch of must-read books. We have selected ten titles we believe you’ll enjoy and put them in our Fall issue of OPEN+ magazine. Check out the selection and put a hold on your pick today.
This September the Cedar Rapids Public Library is joining the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide for Library Card Sign-Up Month, a time to remind parents, caregivers and students that a library card is the first step towards academic achievement and lifelong learning. A library card opens a world of infinite possibilities through resources… View more
The Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation announced that more than 5,000 children are actively enrolled in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. This figure represents 55% of children ages 0 to 5 living in Cedar Rapids and puts the program on track to mail their 100,000th book by year-end. Any child under the age of five who… View more
The Cedar Rapids Public Library invites you to celebrate the end of the Summer Dare with our Summer Dare Circus Party on Saturday, July 27, from 10 am to Noon at the Downtown Library. This community celebration is our final event in the 2019 Summer Dare, the Cedar Rapids Public Library’s inter-generational summer learning program…. View more
The Cedar Rapids Public Library is now offering a new digital service called Hoopla, offering Cedar Rapids citizens access to downloadable audiobooks, ebooks, music, comics, movies, and television delivered directly to your device. “Hoopla offers access to a new library of digital content for our community,” said Dara Schmidt, Director of the Cedar Rapids Public… View more
The Ladd Library will open on Saturdays from 9 am to 5 pm beginning July 1. The additional open hours come two years after budget cuts forced a reduction in service hours at both Cedar Rapids Public Library locations. “We are very excited to be able to offer additional hours for our community,” said Dara… View more
Teens ages 12 – 18 are DARED to register for free half-day camps at the Cedar Rapids Public Library as part of the 2019 Summer Dare. The 2019 Summer Dare is not your average summer reading program. It is an intergenerational summer learning program that challenges the entire community to get out, explore, learn, connect,… View more
April 7-13, the Cedar Rapids Public Library joins libraries nationwide in celebrating the many ways libraries lead their communities through the transformative services, programs and expertise they offer. April 7-13 is National Library Week, an annual celebration of the life-changing work of libraries, librarians and library workers. Libraries aren’t just places to borrow books… View more
