Week Calendar

Children's staff from the Rock Island Public Library will be providing early childhood literacy to our friends at the RI/M Head Start and Preschool for All classes.  

Develop you child's love of learning

with stories, songs and a craft.

For ages 5 and under with a caregiver.

Develop your child's love of learning

with stories, songs and a craft. 

For ages 5 and under with a caregiver.

Use all of your senses with hands-on art.  We will enjoy

a story and several art projects. 

Children's staff from the Rock Island Public Library will be providing early childhood literacy to our friends at the RI/M Head Start and Preschool for All classes.  

“Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” is the overall theme of this year's Frieze lecture series. To kick things off, Dr. Bobby Wengronowitz, visiting assistant professor in sociology,

A new "club" starting for anyone with an itch to stitch, whether you are a knitter, crocheter, sewer, cross sitich or have some other project with stitches involved.  Let's get together and work on them and share information.

Celebrate Halloween by braving our Haunted Escape Room! Take on the role of a ghost hunter and see if you can unlock the mystery of the haunted library in just thirty minutes. But beware: not all ghosts are friendly...

Community Conversations are a partnership between the Rock Island Public Library and the Midwest Writing Center, featuring a look at important issues to the community through the lenses of reading, writing, and discussion.

Lock & Dam #15 at Rock Island has been here since 1934--over 85 years.  Recently, the library received fascinating video footage that was taken at the time the lock and dam were constructed which we can now share with the public.