Celebrate the beginning of the library's summer reading program with an ice cream sundae, ice pop or fresh fruit at the 11th Annual Ice Cream Social. Join the fun at 7:15 pm on the 2nd floor of the library where kids and adults will be wowed as various objects fly through the air during Jason Kollum's Comedy Variety Juggling & Balancing Show.
The Friends of the Library will also hold a special Used Book Sale in the library basement during the Ice Cream Social.
SPOTLIGHT ON
Origami Fun
Thursday, June 8| 3-4 pm
Learn the art of origami, a traditional Japanese art form of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures. Start off with an easy design, working your way up to more difficult designs.
Bloxels Workshop Series
Wednesdays: June 7, 14, 21 | 3:30-4:30 pm
Learn the fundamentals of Bloxels, a software that allows users to design their own video games. Make a completely new video game with custom players and play your friends' creations. For grades 6-8.
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SPECIAL EVENT
GEPL Reads: Supplies 4 Success
Now through August 21
Read your way through enough fascinating, scintillating titles this summer and you'll help in-need kids get brand new backpacks and school supplies!
The Glen Ellyn Public Library is partnering with Supplies 4 Success, a locally-based charitable organization, that raises money to give in-need students in Glen Ellyn District 41 and Community Consolidated District 89 a school supply kit and backpack. When the community collectively reaches this year's summer reading goals, the Friends of the Glen Ellyn Public Library and the Glen Ellyn Library Foundation have pledged to provide funds that will buy supply-filled backpacks for 80 local children. Learn more at
GEPL Reads: Supplies 4 Success.
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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
Friends Donate $33,000 to Library
The Friends of the Library recently presented the Library Board with its annual contribution. For 2017, the Friends donated $33,000.
From 2001 through 2010, the Friends brought in $219,315 in donations. This year's donated funds will be divided between several departments and Open Books, Open Doors. Visit the Friends of the Library page to learn more about this great organization.
LIBRARY FOUNDATION
Make a Donation to the Foundation
One of a variety of ways to help support the Glen Ellyn Public Library is to make a commemorative donation to the Glen Ellyn Library Foundation in honor of someone special.
In 2016, the children of Douglass and Dode Ackermann, long-time Glen Ellyn residents and library members who passed away last year, asked family and friends to honor the memory of their parents by donating to the Foundation. Two end-panel plaques now hang in the nonfiction section in memory of Douglass and Dode Ackermann. For more information on making a donation, visit Glen Ellyn Library Foundation.
COMMUNITY CORNER
Park Boulevard Railroad Crossing Closure
Wednesday, June 7 through Friday, June 16
Union Pacific will be closing the Park Boulevard railroad crossing beginning Wednesday, June 7 through Friday, June 16 for repairs. The crossing will be closed for vehicles and pedestrians as Union Pacific makes improvements for vehicle traffic. Detour signage will be in place, please use caution when driving in the area.
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A new addition to our Young Adult collection made its debut June 1. The HiLo collection of books are written for high school students and feature highly accessible writing styles and relevant themes. The books come to the Glen Ellyn Public Library via a donation from the Glenbard South Special Education department. They are located on the Library's second floor on the three-tier display tables just outside the high school room.
