Weekly Update
June 5 - June 11, 2023
From Your Library
Start Your Summer Reading With Us
Readers of all ages can come together this summer as the Wood County District Public Library presents the Summer Reading Program for 2023, “All Together Now!”

The 2023 Summer Reading Program is open to young people, preschool through young adult, with programs, prize drawings, storytimes, and more. Registration for All Together Now is currently open at all our our locations! Register for Summer Reading Program here.
This Week at WCDPL
Now Showing: Monday Morning Movies
Join us on Mondays through our Summer Reading Program to watch movies about your favorite teams of friends! Movies are every Monday at 10:30 am in Meeting Room A&B at the Bowling Green Library. On Monday, June 5, join us for a showing of Toy Story! Learn more.
Take Camping Indoors with Camp-in-a-Box
Camp-in-a-Box is a weekly, STEM-focused, hour-long program designed for students. Created and funded by Ohio Learns 360 and the Ohio Department of Education, and made available to WCDPL by WBGU-PBS, students will learn about a variety of fun, engaging topics over the summer!

Bowling Green
Tuesday, June 6 at 1:00 pm | The Children's Place
Students will learn about engineering and design process, forces of motion, simple machines, and more as they design and build robo-wheels, hovercraft, watercraft, floating boxes, and more! Learn more.

Walbridge
Friday, June 9 at 10:30 am | Meeting Room
Students will learn about wildlife and animal survival tricks in the tropical rainforest, Antarctica, and the Australian outback. Learn more.
Enjoy Storytime Indoors
Beat the heat with storytime indoors at the library! Bowling Green storytimes are currently every Wednesday at 10:30 am and 2:00 pm, and Walbridge storytimes are every Tuesday at 10:30 am. Join us for stories, songs, dancing, and more! Learn more.
Read, Sing, Dance, and Play with Outdoor Family Playtime
Join us for summer fun outdoors! Outdoor Family Playtime is every Thursday at 10:30 am at Wooster Green. Families can enjoy group games, activities with a different community partner every week, dance and listen to music, and more. On June 8, The Ability Center joins us! Learn more.

This program also coincides with The City of BG’s Food Truck Thursdays, on Thursdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at Wooster Green. You can find out more about Food Truck Thursdays here.
Play Games with the Whole Family
Families can gather together in the Children's Place Programming Room for a Family Game Day at the library on Saturday, June 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm! Children of all ages can join us for an afternoon of tabletop board games and games on the Wii. Learn more.
Learn More About Your Computer
Looking to learn more about your computer? Join us for Computer Basics! This is an introductory computer class series that will inform you about six different computer topics. Classes are held at 11:00 am in Meeting Room C. Our next class is on Windows 11 on Friday, June 9. Register here.
Explore Bowling Green's Boomtown Era
Our annual Boomtown Walking Tour is back! Join us to take a tour through history and learn about some of the famous places and faces of Wood County’s Boomtown Era on Saturday, June 10 at 10:00 am. The tour meets at the Carter House, rain or shine. Register here.
Ready to read something new and meet new people? Join a book discussion at the library! We have a variety of upcoming book groups to suit every reading taste.

Tuesday, June 13 | 7:00 pm | Meeting Room A&B
Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

Thursday, June 22 | 10:00 am | Meeting Room C
The Edge of Summer by Viola Shipman

Monday, June 26 | 6:00 pm | Meeting Room at the Walbridge Library
The Midnight Show Murders by Al Roker

Tuesday, June 27 | 11:00 am | Meeting Room C
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine Johnson
New Books at Your Library
HelenKay Dimon
Donna Leon
Board of Trustees
Ken Frisch, President
Becky Bhaer, Vice President
Ellen Dalton, Secretary
Brian Paskvan
Greg Esposito
Mike Sibbersen

Michael L. Penrod, Director
Bowling Green
251 North Main Street
Bowling Green, OH 43402
(419) 352-5104
Walbridge
108 North Main Street
Walbridge, OH 43465
(419) 666-9900