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May 2021
Storytime Online
We meet online every Wednesday at 10 am for an hour of reading, fun, and activities! Click here to join us!
Find out more »Library Closed for Memorial Day
The Walter E. Olson Memorial Library will be closed Monday, May 31st for Memorial Day. Use our book drop to return items while we're closed, or the Merlin catalog to place holds, check your record, or renew items you've checked out. While we're closed, check out our always-accessible OverDrive ebooks and downloadable audiobooks.
Find out more »June 2021
Afternoon Book Group
The Afternoon Book Group will discuss the book "The Other Einstein" by Marie Benedict. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »Fact & Fiction Book Club
The Fact and Fiction Book Group will discuss the book "The House of Special Purpose" by John Boyne. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »OML Board of Trustees Meeting
The Walter E. Olson Memorial Library's Board of Trustees meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9am. Meeting agendas can be viewed here. While the Library is closed due to COVID-19, the Board will meet remotely, and directions for joining the meeting can be found on the meeting agenda. This meeting is open to the public.
Find out more »July 2021
Wednesday Storytime Stuffed Animal Sleepover Event
On Wednesday July 31st , from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, we will have Story Hour and Family Playgroup in the Kids’ Area. Our theme will be sleepovers as we will have the Stuffed Animal Sleepover tonight. We will read Very Little Red Riding Hood, Starry Starry Night and Time to Sleep Sheep the Sheep! We will sing songs, have an activity, a nursery rhyme and make a small craft--get sleeping bags ready for our stuffed animals. Please bring your…
Find out more »Afternoon Book Group
The Afternoon Book Group will discuss the book "The Blackbird Season" by Kate Moretti. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »Fact & Fiction Book Club
The Fact and Fiction Book Group will discuss the book "Stealing the General" by Russell S. Bonds. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »First Nations Traveling Resource Center Residency
The FNTRC, represented by Co-Director Carol Amour, will have an interactive exhibit at the Library through August 15th. In addition to wonderful books by Native authors, the FNTRC has also brought several full-sized reproductions of Mary Burns' "Ancestral Women" tapestry project. Stop by to explore the resources on display, enter to win books, and talk with Carol and her crew! You can also check out this Annotated Bibliography of Anishinaabe Books from the FNTRC to learn more about Ojibwe culture and history…
Find out more »OML Board of Trustees Meeting
The Walter E. Olson Memorial Library's Board of Trustees meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9am. Meeting agendas can be viewed here. While the Library is closed due to COVID-19, the Board will meet remotely, and directions for joining the meeting can be found on the meeting agenda. This meeting is open to the public.
Find out more »August 2021
Fact & Fiction Book Club
The Fact and Fiction Book Group will discuss the book "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World" by Steven Johnson. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »Afternoon Book Group
The Afternoon Book Group will discuss the book "It's Always the Husband" by Michele Campbell. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »OML Board of Trustees Meeting
The Walter E. Olson Memorial Library's Board of Trustees meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9am. Meeting agendas can be viewed here. While the Library is closed due to COVID-19, the Board will meet remotely, and directions for joining the meeting can be found on the meeting agenda. This meeting is open to the public.
Find out more »September 2021
Closed Labor Day
The library will be closed to observe Labor Day on Monday, September 6, 2021. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, September 2, 2021. Thank you.
Find out more »Afternoon Book Group
The Afternoon Book Group will discuss the book "My Mother the Liar" by Ann Troup. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »Fact & Fiction Book Club
The Fact and Fiction Book Group will discuss the book "The Avenger Takes His Place" by Howard Means. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »OML Board of Trustees Meeting
The Walter E. Olson Memorial Library's Board of Trustees meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9am. Meeting agendas can be viewed here. While the Library is closed due to COVID-19, the Board will meet remotely, and directions for joining the meeting can be found on the meeting agenda. This meeting is open to the public.
Find out more »Trivia Night ONLINE!
Tuesday, September 21 at 6:30pm Play alone or with a team Join library lovers from the 29 libraries that make up the Northern Waters Library Network for night of trivia, music, door prizes and fun! Register for trivia night here.
Find out more »October 2021
Fact & Fiction Book Club
The Fact and Fiction Book Group will discuss the book "My Dear Hamilton" by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
Find out more »Afternoon Book Group
The Afternoon Book Group will discuss the book "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild. All interested readers are invited to attend. Please let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book. Loading…
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