Story Time
Public story times are held each Tuesday at 11:00 AM and each Thursday at 9:00 AM in the story time room. Story time is geared to 3 to 5 year old children. No registration is required. Please attend whenever possible. Due to limited space, parents are asked not to attend the story times with their child. 

Smart Start Story Time is a free library program for parents, grandparents & their babies up to 23 months features books, songs, & nursery rhymes. Spring 2008 Schedule - Mondays at 10:30 AM (birth up to 2 yrs. of age) - May 5, 12, 10 & Tuesday 27th Advanced registration is required and siblings are welcome to attend too. Visit or call the library 717-273-7624. This program is brought to you by The United Way of Lebanon County & Lebanon County Libraries.

Summer Programs 2008

Registration for All Summer Reading Programs Starts Monday June 9, 2008!
This is our third year offering a Teen & Adult Summer Reading Program so please sign up and help us make these programs successful!

Children's Summer Reading Program - Catch The Reading Bug @ Your Library
Make a beeline or follow the ant trail to the Lebanon Community Library this summer to find out what the buzz is all about! Become a bookworm and keep reading and learning by participating in the Children's Summer Reading Program. Click here to download our brochure listing all our programs this summer.

How it works - Children ages 3-12 may register at the Circualtion Desk to receive an activity folder. Earn points by reading books, or doing fun activities listed in the folder. Redeem points at the library for free books and prizes. Also come to weekly programs at the library featuring songs, storytelling, games, and live animals. You do not need to be registered for Summer Reading to attend a program @ the library.

This year's Teen Summer Reading Program's Theme is Metamorphosis @ Your Library How To Particpate This Summer: 1. Pick up your Teen Summer Reading Packet @ the Library starting June 9th. Or click here and download your own (pdf). 2. Read all summer long! 3. For every 3 books you read (audiobooks & graphic novels count too) fill out a ticket to win a $20 gift card to The Lebanon Valley Mall.

This year's Adult Summer Reading Program Theme is Go Green @ Your Library How To Particpate This Summer: 1. Pick up your Adult Summer Reading Packet @ the Library starting June 9th. Or click here and download your own (pdf). 2. Read all summer long! 3. For every 3 books you read (audiobooks count too) fill out a ticket to win a $20 gift card to The Lebanon Valley Mall.

Adult Summer Reading Club Special Event

Monday, June 30 at 6:30pm Black Knights and Dead Parrots: Monty Python and Philosophy Gary Hardcastle, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University, will present.

As undergraduates at Cambridge and Oxford in the 1960s, the future members of the seminal British comedy troupe Monty Python studied ideas that are at the heart of modern philosophical thinking. Not surprisingly, the philosophy they learned crept into some of their funniest sketches. Gary Hardcastle will use clips of several of Monty Python's best-known skits to illustrate and explain what philosophers do, why they do it and why what they do actually is important—in short, what philosophy is all about. A rare opportunity to learn philosophy while giggling.

This presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, a Federal-State partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The PHC inspires people to come together and share a life of learning. Since 1973, the PHC has provided resources that empower local groups to help their communities explore history, literature, the arts and the ideas that shape the human experience.





Monday Children’s Programs
Mon. June 23 1:00pm – Movie - A Bug's Life
Mon. June 30 1:00pm – Library Bingo - Play Bingo to Win Free Books!
Mon. July 14 1:00pm – Movie - Madagascar
Mon. July 21 1:00pm – Library Bingo - Play Bingo to Win Free Books!
Mon. July 28 1:00pm – Movie – Charlotte's Web



Tuesday Children's Programs
Tues. June 17 11am – What's the Buzz About Reading?
Find out as you sing along with musical duo Two of a Kind

Tues. July 8 11am – Songs and Stories About Bugs
Join Matthew Dodd for tales of bugs, large and small

Tues. July 15 11am – Reptiles (and a few bugs)
Learn about some of the scaly residents of Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary

Tues. July 22 11am - Marian and Friends
Meet ventriloquist and puppeteer Marian Gehman and a zany cast of characters

Tues. July 29 11am – Insects
Find out about amazing insects from a naturalist from Lancaster County Enviornmental Center





Special Programs
Tues. June 24 6:30pm – Bugs in Our Backyard and Butterfly T-shirt Craft
Using his large collection of insects specimens and live insects Jerry Schneider helps you discover the facinating bugs that live near you! Create a Butterfly T-shirt - T-shirts are available for $4 each or bring your own blank T-shirt.
Pre-registration is required for this program, please call the library.

Friday, June 27 10am - Local Author Susanne Bensing and her granddaughters Anya and Kate will discuss how they illustrated their own book That Would Be Great. Susanne Bensing is also the author of Icing on the Cake: A Most Delicious Life Journey Topped with Laughter and Love.

Wed. July 9 1pm – Bee in Ancient Egypt
Join archaeologist Kate Liszka from the University of Penn Museum to discover how the ancient Egyptians used insects in many ways.*
*This outreach lecture program is funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.



Summer Storytimes
Thursdays at 10am – June 5, 12, 19, 26 & July 10, 17
in the Library's Rainforest Room
Stories are geared for ages 2-6. No registation is required. Everyone is Welcome. Adults are asked to stay with children during the stories.

The Library hosts the 7th annual Family Block Party Saturday, September 15, 2007- 10-2 Each child that attends this event will receive a free book! This year’s festivities will include live musical entertainment from World of Song, children’s games & crafts, free balloons, plus children can jump around in the bouncing house.