The Winter Reading Program begins January 2!

January means the start of Winter Reads, the adult winter reading program for Pioneerland Library System. The program starts at the Litchfield Library on Friday, January 2, and ends Saturday, March 14.

You can sign up anytime until early March. When you sign up, you’ll get a book bag, while supplies last. You’ll also get a reading log to track and rate the books you read beginning the day you sign up. If you read 3 books by the time the program is done, you can choose a small prize. If you read 3 more, you can pick an additional prize. If you turn in a card with all 6 books read by the last day of the program, you’ll be entered in a drawing for local business gift certificates, sponsored by the Friends of the Litchfield Library. The program can be completed only once per year.

In the past we’ve limited participation to adults, but this year teens age thirteen and up are welcome to participate if they wish.

The prize choices include mugs, candy bars, book lights, notebooks, and can coolers, while supplies last.

You can read any books you choose: library books or your own, fiction or nonfiction, print or audiobook or ebook.

Photos from Decembers’ Adult Arts & Crafts program:

Pioneerland libraries will be closed on Wednesday, December 24, for Christmas Eve Day, and Thursday, December 25, for Christmas Day. The libraries will close at 5:00 p.m on Wednesday, December 31, for New Year’s Eve, and will be closed on Thursday, January 1, for New Year’s Day. The libraries will be open regular hours all of the other days.

Take a look at what participants in the October and November Adults Arts & Crafts programs made!

Kids are invited to the library on Tuesday, December 30th to enjoy some creative crafting. We will be bringing out our craft supplies, and youth are invited to come and create whatever they desire using the materials provided. This program is geared for kids in grades K-4th, however siblings are always welcome. Those 8 and under must have an adult/teen caregiver along. 

The Litchfield Public Library was originally a Carnegie Library. Although the library is now in a new building, that history is reflected in the painting of the original library in the lobby, and the Carnegie meeting room. Across the street, you can read about the history of the library on a bench installed by the Downtown Council.

Projects made by the participants in September’s Adult Arts & Crafts class:

Photos from Litchfield’s Great North Star Read Together event:

Thank you to the organizations and businesses that donated toward Litchfield Library’s summer reading program this year! The Friends of the Library donated funds to help run the program and buy small prizes. The businesses donated prizes that children and teens chose when they turned in completed reading sheets. Thank you for supporting kids and reading in our community!