The library will be closed Monday, May 29 for Memorial Day.
Summer hours begin this week: Monday-Thursday from 10:00 am-9:00 pm, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 am-5:00 pm, closed Sundays. Sunday hours resume on September 10.
Popup Picks Helps You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions!
January 11, 2017 by · Leave a Comment
Fulfill your New Year’s resolutions with the help of the new Popup Picks collection at BiblioBoard:
Do you want to get fit or eat healthier? Looking to plan your next vacation or “staycation?” How about learning to manage stress at work? The latest Popup Picks e-book collections can help you achieve all of these goals and more!
This collection is available through March 2017 and includes:
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Popup Picks is produced every three months as a quarterly online mobile publication by librarians from around the state. It includes hand-curated, award-winning sci-fi, young adult, travel, humor, self-help, graphic novels and other ebooks and personal picks from leading expert librarian curators. This service for Illinois residents also gets up close and personal with author interviews, personal mementos and backstories on your favorite authors and books.
Holiday Hours
December 16, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
The library will be closed December 24-26 (Saturday-Monday) for Christmas and December 31-January 2 (Saturday-Monday) for New Year’s.
Winter 2017 Newsletter
November 30, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
The Winter edition of the Hillside Public Library’s Off the Shelf newsletter is now online. Get the Winter newsletter here, or pick up a copy in the lobby, to find the latest information on all of our exciting wintertime programs and events including: the NEW “Books on Tap” book club, the Adult Winter Reading Program, youth winter break programs, reading to dogs, YA Craft Corner, online safety with the Hillside PD, computer classes, and much, much more.
Popup Picks!
November 17, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
Read incredible books from and about Illinois with Popup Picks!
Popup Picks is produced every three months as a quarterly online mobile publication by librarians from around the state. It includes hand-curated, award-winning sci-fi, young adult, travel, humor, self-help, graphic novels and other ebooks and personal picks from leading expert librarian curators. This service for Illinois residents also gets up close and personal with author interviews, personal mementos and backstories on your favorite authors and books.
Popup Picks is brought to you courtesy of Reaching Across Illinois Library System.
BiblioBoard Library
September 21, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
Introducing Biblioboard: a collection of fiction, nonfiction, historical source documents, photos, and more, free to any Illinois resident.
The BiblioBoard Core collection contains over 14,000 full-text eBooks that cover a range of topics from Abraham Lincoln and the Alamo to ballet, baking, chocolate, Mozart, Jack London and Victorian Fashion. BiblioBoard also features a collection from Recovering the Classics (a crowdsourced collection of original covers for classics of world literature), as well as collections from the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. Because there are no limits on simultaneous use, you’ll never be put on a hold list or have to wait for titles.
If you create a BiblioBoard account you can bookmark your place, add notes to items you read, generate citations, download content for offline reading, and access the collections outside of Illinois.
Apps are available for iOS and Android for reading on the go!
Fall 2016 Newsletter
September 8, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
The Fall edition of the Hillside Public Library’s Off the Shelf newsletter is now online. Get the Fall newsletter here, or pick up a copy in the lobby, to find the latest information on all of our exciting fall programs and events including: Scrapbooking, game shows, greeting cards for hospitalized children, computer classes, flu shots, Abe Lincoln meet & greet, NEW young adult clubs, Spooky children’s programs, pirates, and much, much more.
Coffee and Coloring!
July 7, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
Saturday, July 9th at 10:30
Join us for a fun and unique way to unwind and exercise your creativity! Coloring pages, colored pencils, coffee, and donuts will be provided.
Cook the Book BookClub
February 23, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
Do you love browsing through cookbooks and trying new recipes? Then this is the club for you. Each month we will select a cookbook and place copies on hold at the circulation desk. You will check out the cookbook and choose one recipe you would like to share. Each member of the club will make that recipe and bring what is cooked, baked, etc. to the meeting for all to try. First we all eat. After eating, we will rate the recipes and review the book. Copies of the cookbook will be available for checkout four weeks before the meeting. Our first discussion and sampling will be on March 2! We hope to see you there! Ask any staff member if you have questions. Please register.
Meets the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm
March 2: What Can I Bring? by Anne Byrn
April 6: The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Food from My Frontier by Ree Drummond
May 4: Cedar Cove Cookbook by Debbie Macomber
Spring 2016 Newsletter
February 22, 2016 by · Leave a Comment
The Spring edition of the Hillside Public Library’s Off the Shelf newsletter is now online. Get the Spring newsletter here, or pick up a copy in the lobby, to find the latest information on all of our exciting springtime programs and events including: the NEW Cook the Book book club, Red Cross First Aid and CPR Certification Course, Women’s Cemetery Safari, Poetry Open Mic, a plethora of youth spring break programs, and much, much more.
