Upcoming Events

Looking for a book club with no assigned reading or focused discussions? Then joining a Silent Book Club may be for you!

QCCAN will be bringing their dogs for a special service project.   Please join us for a cuddly dog reading. 

Conversation Group.

No agenda. We gather, we eat cake, and we talk. Discussions include all things related to life, death, and the finality of it. Open, non-judgmental, and honest conversation about topics we don’t discuss much.

This movie is a historical event for the City of Rock Island, and is an extra-special feature to top off this year's series of videos about the Rock Island Line railroad.

Details to be added soon.

After school activities every week on Tuesday (Watts-Midtown) and Thursday (Southwest) for school age (K-6). 

This week is our book club!

Our annual "read-in" of books and other works that have been banned (removed from shelves) or challenged (reclassified, moved, or questioned for the right to be freely available.) 5:30 pm is for snacks and mingling, with readings starting at 6 pm.

The Southwest Branch of the Rock Island Public Library opened its doors to the public 50 years ago on today's date, September 25, 1974.

Discussion of The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.

Come enjoy an afternoon of songs and stories with Forrest McCurren on guitar and Margaret McCurren on fiddle!

After school activities every week on Tuesday (Watts-Midtown) and Thursday (Southwest) for school age kids (K-6). 

This week is our book club!

Looking for assistance with computer skills and searching for jobs?

We welcome the LEAD Friday groups from Eugene Field Elementary to the library to learn about library cards, our collection, programs and be reading leaders!

Join us on September 28th, as local artist April Greetings leads a fall-themed cardmaking class! This is a guided program and all supplies will be provided. Attendees will leave with several fall-themed greeting cards.

After school activities every week on Tuesday (Watts-Midtown) and Thursday (Southwest) for school age kids (K-6). 

This week we will be making shrunken apple heads!!

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.

After school activities every week on Tuesday (Watts-Midtown) and Thursday (Southwest) for school age kids (K-6). 

This week we will be making shrunken apple heads!!

Looking for assistance with computer skills and searching for jobs?

In today’s world, it seems like AI is everywhere that you look. It can feel overwhelming, confusing, and even scary.

Using the stipulations of book banning laws such as that passed in 2023 by the Iowa legislature and signed into law by their Gorvernor, Kim Reynolds, and looking at the restrictions of similar laws recently enacted in other states of our republic,

After school activities every week on Tuesday (Watts-Midtown) and Thursday (Southwest) for school age (K-6). 

This week will be full of ghostly activities. We may even find one in the library!!!