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Franklin Public Library
Hours
The Library’s
hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Friday and
Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Library will be closed Wednesday January 1st for New
Year’s Day and Monday January 20th for Martin Luther
King Jr. Day.
Franklin
Public Library’s 2024 Reading Challenge!
January:
Get inspired!
Welcome to the Franklin Public Library's
second Annual Reading Challenge! For each monthly prompt that you
complete and submit on time you will receive a Free Book Coupon
that's good at the library's Book Sale. Submissions MUST be submitted
by the last day of each month in order to qualify for that month's
Free Book Coupon. For complete details and to sign-up,
visit our website! Grand prizes made possible by the Friends of
the Franklin Library!
Franklin
Public Library VITA: Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
Site
Opening Saturday February 1st!
Volunteers
are always needed for the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and Tax
Counseling for the Elderly programs… better known as VITA and
TCE.
Many volunteer roles are available. You can help as a
greeter, an interpreter, and many other roles, but most of all, we
need tax preparers. Training for certification is provided!
Learn
more at https://www.irs.gov/individuals/irs-tax-volunteers
or email site coordinator Mitzi Gousie at mgousie@minlib.ne
ESL &
Adult Literacy Program
The Franklin
Public Library has started an English as a Second Language and Adult
Literacy Program to serve Franklin and its surrounding communities.
Volunteers and students do not need to be Franklin residents. If
interested, fill out the
registration
form on the
library’s
website.
Special
Events for Kids
Ben Franklin
Birthday Bash! Friday, January 17th @ 1:00PM
Join
us as we celebrate the birthday of Ben Franklin himself! Music,
games, costume contests, and more! No registration required
Winter Carnival!
Saturday, January 18th @ 1:00PM
Join
us for an epic afternoon of winter fun for the whole family! Enjoy a
variety of carnival games, crafts, snacks, and more!
Family Literacy
Night! Wednesday, January 22nd @ 5:30PM
Join
us for an evening celebration of reading for the whole family!
Presented in partnership with the Franklin Public schools! Browse our
curated tables of family read-alouds, get tips, tricks, and free
resources to make reading fun at home, and visit with Franklin’s
favorite police dogs for some fun independent reading practice!
Special
Events for Teens
Teen Vision
Boards! Wednesday, January 8th @ 5:30PM
Teens!
Set your intentions for 2025! Join us as we get crafty, creating
vision boards and setting our reading resolutions!
Teen
Interactive Movie! Wednesday, January 15th
@ 5:00PM
Teens!
Join us for a cozy winter movie! An interactive viewing of Little
Women, complete with snacks and fun activities!
Special
Events for Adults
JUNTO
Non Fiction Book Club, Thursday, January 9th
6:30PM
The
JUNTO (from the Spanish junta or assembly) was a club for mutual
improvement established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin. Franklin Public
Library’s JUNTO Book Club is a place to discuss a book of the month
and share our insights from the book and beyond! The first meeting is
Thursday January 9th at 6:30PM. The January Book is Think
Again
by Adam Grant! Get a physical or digital copy through the Library
Catalog!
Franklin's
Historic Union Street Cemetery: Its gravestone carvers and monuments,
Wednesday, January 15th
@ 6:30PM
Come
learn about the Union Street Cemetery, one of Franklin’s historic
cemeteries founded in 1752. We’ll discuss the families that are
buried there, the gravestones and the men who carved them. We’ll
also look at the types of monuments and the symbols found on them.
Painting
for Adults, Saturday, January 18th
@ 1:00PM
Grown-ups! Are you
feeling creative? Join Miss Lily to create your very own step-by-step
painting of a covered bridge! All materials will be provided.
Registration is required!
The
Golden Age of Silent Movies, Thursday, January 23rd
@ 6:30PM
Silent
Movie pianist Richard Hughes creates a living history by way of
fascinating silent movie clips of newsreels, educational films,
melodramas, cartoons, comedies and more. Students will have an
opportunity to synchronize sound effects like a train whistle, siren
and wind machine to a popular melodrama of 1913. This is followed by
a demonstration of ingenious animation devices that preceded the
motion picture camera and then, a focus on silent movie ‘Mood
Music’ that Richard will play with selected films.
Special
Events for All Ages
Franklin
Underground Concert! Saturday, January 11th
@ 1:00PM
It’s
Ben Franklin’s birthday Week and the Library is kicking it off with
a rocking good time with Franklin Underground in Concert! Listen and
dance while getting the inside scoop on all the great events going on
all around Franklin as we celebrate our namesake!
The
Great African American Musicians! Saturday, January 25th
@ 2:00PM
Join
us in welcoming Rodney Mashia performing a concert of jazz, gospel,
soul, folk, and pop celebrating great African American musicians.
Franklin
Library Book Sale
Friday, January 17th,
1:00-5:00pm. Saturday, January 18th, 9:00am
to 12:00 Noon
All books are just one dollar!
Bag Sale - $5
A Bag—Saturday, January 18th, from
1:00-4:00pm
Come fill a brown bag with all the books you
can!
