Do you need some help with your laptop, your phone, your Ereader. Every Wednesday from 4:00pm to 5:00pm, the reference department will provide walk in tech help. Our team we will do our best to help with your problem and point you in the right direction as needed. It is a first come first serve basis and this service will only be available from 4-5.Though you do not need to sign up, you may want to call before coming in

GRADES 2 – 5

✍️ Have you ever tried to write your own story? Let's all be authors today and work together to make silly, fantastical, and adventurous stories--just like the pages of your favorite books. We will create characters, decide plots, and spin the wheel to make them extra silly!

Calling all garden enthusiasts as our Garden Club kicks off for another year.  We will meet the 3rd Wednesday of the months April-September at 5:00 and share ideas and talk about all things gardening.  We'll watch some videos and probably visit some local gardens.

GRADES 6 - 12

💡This month TAB will continue planning logistics for our next project: a baking contest!

💭TAB is a group of teen volunteers who meet once a month to plan programs, events, and recommend titles or other materials for the library's YA collection. It's a great chance for teenagers to make a difference in their community while earning volunteer hours and developing leadership skills!

📝Any Monroe Free Library Cardholder in grades 6-12 may attend. If you are not a current volunteer, you will have to fill out our volunteer paperwork at the start of the meeting.

(Registration begins for all Teen programs on the 25th of the previous month.)

Prepare for pure comic chaos! Join us at the library for Monkey Business (1931), where the Marx Brothers sneak aboard an ocean liner and turn it into a nonstop parade of gags, disguises, and delightfully ridiculous mayhem.

From the late 17th century to the dawn of the 20th, the magic lantern transformed storytelling into an enlivened visual experience. By the late-Victorian era, the magic lantern was an important and ubiquitous visual medium. Eventually eclipsed by the coming of the movies, the wonders of this once-familiar entertainment are rarely experienced by the modern audiences.

Magic lantern performers Dawn Elliott and Joel Schlemowitz have been bringing this fascinating medium back to life, presenting award-winning magic lantern shows using period-era glass slides, magic lantern projectors, music and narration.

The program encompasses a variety of magic lantern entertainments: “Belle Belton’s Bicycle Adventure,” the anthropomorphic antics of “The Educated Cats” (reminiscent of the illustrations of Louis Wain), a magic lantern circus, and a variety of astonishing moving image mechanical slides: lever slides, slip-slides, gearwork slides, chromatropes.

Join Monroe Free Library for our Spring Community Yard Sale on Saturday, April 18 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (rain date: May 2). Community members are invited to reserve vendor space and sell gently used items, handmade goods, collectibles, and more.

Each vendor space includes a 6-foot slot. The first slot is $20, and additional slots are available for $10 each. Space is limited, and reservations must be made in person at the library by asking for Joanne.

Please note: No refunds will be issued. Vendors are responsible for bringing their own tables and chairs.

Don’t miss this opportunity to declutter, discover great finds, and enjoy a fun community shopping day at the library!