Our free all-ages summer reading games are back in person! Read for fun, complete activities, and attend events to earn prizes! Pick up a game board beginning May 23 at the Downtown Library, Ellettsville Branch, or on the Bookmobile! This year, the Friends of the Library Foundation will donate $1,000 to the Community Kitchen of Monroe County when we meet our registration goal of 1,000 people! Learn more at mcpl.info/summerreading. 

Looking for something fun to explore? Come view the 3" x 3" painted tiny art masterpieces at the Ellettsville Branch Art Gallery, painted by local kids, teens, and adults! All ages. Drop in throughout the month of June.

You’re invited to bring in an item for repair free of charge at our third Fix-It Fair! Local professionals will provide repairs and be available to coach attendees interested in learning how to make their own fixes. Limit one item per person, please. All ages. 

Watch a video and learn more about what can be fixed at mcpl.info/fixitfair. Questions? Email mneer@mcpl.info.

11:00  Maria Whiteman    Deep Ecology (IU Environmental Resilience Institute)

 

11:30  Jason Kelly            "A very innocent planet, except for those big brains": The Anthropocenic Consciousness (IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute)

                                              

12:00  James Coby           "Nothing alive but us and the plant": Eco-Horror and Scott Smith's The Ruins 

                                                                (Indiana Humanities Speakers Bureau)                 

 

12:30  Nathan Schmidt      A Living Museum: Vonnegut and the Indiana State Park (IUB English)

 

1:00    Adam Henze           Falling Blossoms: Exploring Environment through Haiku (Indiana Humanities Speakers Bureau)            

 

1:30    Shannon Gayk         “15 Signs of the End of the World” (IUB English/Indiana Humanities Speakers Bureau)        

 

2:00-3:00     Scott Russell Sanders      Reading from Small Marvels (IUB English)