Families can create a book character pumpkin (uncarved) at home then bring them to the library during the month of October for patron voting during our Book Character Pumpkin Contest! We will pair your completed pumpkin with the related book before displaying it! The winning pumpkin will be announced on November 1 and will receive a $40 Target or Amazon gift card!
Patron voting begins Monday October 25, so you still have time to bring your pumpkins in! Be sure to leave your family name/phone number along with your pumpkin. Feel free to "name" your pumpkin!
We are inviting teens in Grades 6-12 to help us with a fun library project: designing and painting storybook direction arrows that we will place on our outdoor lamp posts! All supplies and snacks will be provided. Just bring your creativity and your ideas! Registration required.
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs.
Registration: Yes
Ages: All
Let's start our week with a gentle walk in South Park. Get together with new friends a walk and talk together.
We'll meet in the big parking lot on Corrigan Drive, across from the Fairgrounds and round horse barn.
Please register so that I know who to watch for!
Stop by the library and create your own yarn pumpkin to take home! Select your yarn and then follow the simple step by step directions provided. No registration is required.
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STEAM activities help promote essential skills and help prepare our children for the future. STEAM encourages children to be curious, to wonder, to be innovators, and to learn through hands on play. We will have 3 STEAM evening sessions for families to join in. Sessions will be located in the Discovery Center. This month's theme is apples! Come and join the fun! Registration required.
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs. If you are unable to join us in-person, all programs will also be broadcast on Facebook LIVE.
Registration: No
Location: Facebook
Ages: All
Join us for this short program that features classic rock music performed by symphonies around the world. Rock your Tuesdays!
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
We are taking our 1,000 Books early literacy program up a notch and adding a phonics component! Each week, children ages 2-5 will focus on a different letter of the alphabet and receive a literacy kit to use and follow along during the program, then keep the items to take home! Each literacy kit will contain one book, one rhyme and sing card, one musical activity, one craft and one early learning activity, all to help your child become a life-long reader! Registration required.
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs. If you are unable to join us in-person, all programs will also be broadcast on Facebook LIVE.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Students in Grades 4-6 are invited to join us monthly for a sculpting class using various materials, such as wire and clay, as well as various techniques taught by our local artist Michelle! All materials will be provided. Registration required.
Wednesdays at 6:30 pm: October 13 (wire sculpting), November 10 (clay sculpting) and December 8.
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs.
We are trying something new that you’ve been asking for: a book group specifically geared to students in Grades 5-8! You don’t need to feel “committed,” just read and attend when you can! This book group will tackle topics you’ve asked about: body image, race, immigration, LGBTQ+ and more. Group goals are two-fold: place yourself in someone else’s shoes through the power of the author’s voice, and use your voice to express how you feel about the book, the characters, the topic or just anything on your mind! Simply register, pick a book up at the library, read (no worries if you don’t finish), then meet up at the library for some great snacks and cool conversation. Registration required.
Thursdays at 6:30 pm:
October 14 (Starfish by Lisa Fipps) - Book pickup begins September 13.
November 11 (Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes) - Book pickup begins October 18 - register HERE
December 9
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs
Registration: Yes
Ages: 18+
Location: Main library space
Time to move BINGO back inside. Masks are required at this time. We'll play 10 games for small prizes and have a few laughs as well.
Please register as spaces are limited.
Registration: Yes
Ages: All
Let's start our week with a gentle walk in South Park. Get together with new friends a walk and talk together.
We'll meet in the big parking lot on Corrigan Drive, across from the Fairgrounds and round horse barn.
Please register so that I know who to watch for!
Registration: No
Location: Facebook
Ages: All
Join us for this short program that features classic rock music performed by symphonies around the world. Rock your Tuesdays!
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Join us in the discovery center for a fun and engaging story time that will include an interesting story, song, musical instrument, game, and seasonal craft. All crafts will be made to include parts of nature! This class is for anyone, ages 2 and up. Registration required.
October 19th craft: Pumpkin with seeds
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs. If you are unable to join us in-person, all programs will also be broadcast on Facebook LIVE.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Young chefs of any age can join us in-person at the library for a monthly make-from-scratch cooking/baking program with a focus on delicious recipes, family time and fun! We'll even read a related story at the conclusion of the program! This program increases children's math, problem solving, vocabulary and literacy skills, while tying in science, geography and culture. Ingredients will be provided for families attending in person. Make your recipe here, then take home and pop in your oven! Registration required.
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs.
October20th recipe: Banana-Pumpkin Blender Muffins
Supplies needed for program (please bring with you): muffin tin, blender, spatula, wooden spoon, measuring cups, measuring spoons, ladle
Ingredients that will be supplied to in-person attendees (or to have at home if joining us online): 2 bananas, pumpkin puree, eggs, avocado or vegetable oil, maple syrup or honey, vanilla extract, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, salt, rolled oats, mini chocolate chips (optional)
Bring your baby (ages 0-2) to our morning storytime featuring stories, fun and engaging songs, rhymes, music and bubbles to conclude our program! Each registered family will recieve their own book, musical instruments and rhyme and sing card to use during the program. All program supplies will be thoroughly cleaned for safe use. Return the supplies at the conclusion of the program and keep the rhyme and sing card to add to your collection! Please register for each session. Registration required.
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs. If you are unable to join us in-person, all programs will also be broadcast on Facebook LIVE.
Registration: No
Location: Outdoors or inside the library
We'd love to have you come and talk about books with us! We're not stuffy, just chatty! Share other books that you've read with all of us and get some
new ideas about fantastic books!
This month's title is "Extremely loud and incredibly close" by Jonathan Foer.
Registration: People will be registered after they pay $20/per admission, either at the library or online. No door sales will be available on the day of the event.
Location: Main Library
Ages: 18 and older
This group reading by renowned median Rev. Marjorie Rivera is an entertaining and educational show in a friendly, safe and upbeat environment.
This is not a private reading, but rest assured that everyone has the same opportunity to get a message. Messages will be brought through for as many as possible during the 90 minutes.
Masks will be required for this performance and seating is limited so that we can stay safe.
Registration: Yes
Ages: All
Let's start our week with a gentle walk in South Park. Get together with new friends a walk and talk together.
We'll meet in the big parking lot on Corrigan Drive, across from the Fairgrounds and round horse barn.
Please register so that I know who to watch for!
Registration: No
Location: Facebook
Ages: All
Join us for this short program that features classic rock music performed by symphonies around the world. Rock your Tuesdays!
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
We are taking our 1,000 Books early literacy program up a notch and adding a phonics component! Each week, children ages 2-5 will focus on a different letter of the alphabet and receive a literacy kit to use and follow along during the program, then keep the items to take home! Each literacy kit will contain one book, one rhyme and sing card, one musical activity, one craft and one early learning activity, all to help your child become a life-long reader! Registration required.
Please note: Masks are required for indoor programs. If you are unable to join us in-person, all programs will also be broadcast on Facebook LIVE.
This week's letter is S! Children can dress up for Halloween and trick-or-treat in the library after storytime!
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Have a technology question? Need help using your computer, tablet, or phone? Schedule a FREE one-on-one technology help session. Sessions are limited to one half hour.
Children of all ages can join us as park rangers from Allegheny County Parks present a fun and informative program all about bats! This program seeks to shed light on common myths and legends surrounding bats, as well as familiarize audience members with local bat species. Participants will be illuminated to the role bats play in our night skies and have the opportunity to try out their bat skills in fun and engaging activities. Registration required.
Please note: This is a FREE program. Masks are required for indoor programs.
Baldwin Borough Public Library’s Board of Trustees is composed of seven citizens of the community, appointed by Baldwin Borough Council.
The Board meets monthly at 7pm on the third Thursday of each month (October's meeting will be on the 4th Thursday) at the Library and all meetings are open to the public.
Put on your Halloween costumes and join us for a spooktacularly fun evening, beginning with our outdoor Storywalk, Halloween crafts, games, photo op station, and book character pumpkin contest voting. Registration required. Thank you to our kind sponsors: WQED Inquire Within and Heritage Hospice.
Please note: Masks are required.
Please note: There are two time slots available!! This is the 6:00 PM-7:00 PM TIME SLOT!!
Put on your Halloween costumes and join us for a spooktacularly fun evening, beginning with our outdoor Storywalk, Halloween crafts, games, photo op station, and book character pumpkin contest voting. Registration required. Thanks to our kind sponsors: WQED Inquire Within and Heritage Hospice.
Please note: Masks are required.
Please note: There are two time slots available!! This is the 7:00 PM-8:00 PM TIME SLOT!!
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