The Iowa City Public Library is home to knowledge and entertainment for every age year round. Visit us online at icpl.org to see an up-to-date calendar of events, read reviews and staff picks, download audiobooks, and get research and reference help.
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- Location:
- Iowa City, IA, 52240
- Phone:
- 319.356.5200
- Mon - Thurs:
- 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
- Fri:
- 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Sat:
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Homer’s Odyssey: a fearless feline tale or how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat
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The Billionaire’s Vinegar
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Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling
2 Nov 2009, 2:43 pm |
Events
19 past eventsSee All
- Criticism in the (Digital) Pub...
Iowa City Public Library, Room A.
Thursday, October 15 at 7:00pm - What Producing, Sampling, Remi...
Iowa City Public Library, Room A
Wednesday, October 7 at 12:00pm - Public Libraries, Budget Cuts ...
Iowa City Public Library, Room A
Wednesday, September 30 at 12:00pm - Prescription drug drop-off, di...
The Nest parking lot at Sycamore Mall
Saturday, September 26 at 9:00am - Film Screening: Bloody Cartoons
Iowa City Public Library, Room A
Friday, September 25 at 7:00pm - Energy Efficiency in Your Home
Room A, Iowa City Public Library
Thursday, September 24 at 7:00pm - Indoor Composting with Worms
Room A, Iowa City Public Library
Thursday, September 17 at 7:00pm - All Iowa Reads Book Discussion...
ICPL, Meeting Room B
Saturday, August 1 at 10:00am - ICPL Behind the Scenes Buildin...
Iowa City Public Library
Thursday, July 9 at 2:00pm - Community activist, sustainabl...
Iowa City Public Library, Meeting R...
Saturday, June 13 at 11:00am
Iowa City Public Library Ricky Stanzi shares his reading tastes & vampire views.
Source: gazetteonline.com
Breaking news and headlines for eastern Iowa, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City including local, regional and national news, sports and business news, eastern Iowa news updates, expanded coverage of local stories and AP video clips
Iowa City Public Library Wondering what to read next? Check out this list of recommended books from ICPL employees.
Source: newsroom.icpl.org
Did you miss Books & Bagels? Wondering what our staff recommends as their favorite reads for the year thus far? Check out this list of recommended reading from ICPL employees.
Iowa City Public Library Profile of dedicated ICPL volunteer, Nancy Sereduck. Thanks for all you do for the library and the community!
Source: dailyiowan.com
On one Thursday afternoon, the Emergency Communications Center supervisor scanned computer monitors, radioing officers, and fielded 911 calls. She’s that person who constantly helps.
Iowa City Public Library All Iowa Reads has announced the selected book for 2010 – “Driftless” by David Rhodes.
Source: newsroom.icpl.org
When David Rhodes’ first three novels were published in the mid-’70s, he was acclaimed as “one of the best eyes in recent fiction” (John Gardner), and compared favorably to Sherwood Anderson. ...
Iowa City Public Library ICPL's 2009 Art Purchase Prize winners have been announced! Check out the winning artwork!
Source: newsroom.icpl.org
On October 27, 2009, the Library Art Advisory Committee chose eight artworks by local artists as the winners of the 2009 Iowa City Public Library Art Purchase Prize Competition. The winners were chosen from a group of 26 original artworks submitted by artists.
Iowa City Public Library ECO Iowa City presents the "Film Food Festival" November 6, 13 and 19 at at the Iowa City Public Library, featuring screenings of "The Garden," "Fresh," and "King Corn," including a discussion with "King Corn" filmmaker Ian Cheney in Meeting Room A @ ICPL.
Source: newsroom.icpl.org
November 6: “The Garden”This Oscar-nominated documentary follows a group of low-income families struggling to protect a 14-acre urban farm in the middle of South Central Los Angeles from bureaucratic real estate developers.
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Learn a Language @ Your Library: ICPL announces the debut of Mango Languages, a premier resource for all your language-learning needs. Mango is an interactive online tool that helps you learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, and six more languages.
Check it out by visiting icpl.org.
Source: www.icpl.org
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The Iowa City Public Library's survey is being offered to patrons who visit the Library through
the end of this week and a link to the survey is available on the Library’s home page. The Library welcomes you to please take a few minutes to complete the survey online through the end of this month. Thanks!
Source: www.icpl.org
Once every five years the Library surveys users. We use this information to improve library services. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and help us plan for the future.
Iowa City Public Library Saturday is International Day of Climate Action. Join ECO Iowa City for one of these events this weekend!
Source: www.press-citizen.com
ECO Iowa City will host several events to mark International Day of Climate Action events Saturday, including a workshop titled "Reducing Your Carbon Footprint," a bike ride, the Environmental Film Festival's showing of "The Age of Stupid" and a Ghost Bike Ride to Oakland Cemetery.
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A Web-based gallery
of works by local writers will debut today as part of the National Day of Writing. The gallery was designed to
demonstrate why Iowa City was named a UNESCO City of Literature. In Iowa City, several of these writers will read
at 7:30 p.m. today at T Spoons Coffee Café, 301 E. Market
St.
Source: www.press-citizen.com
Today is the National Day of Writing, and the University of Iowa National Council of Teachers of English student affiliate is planning to celebrate with its own gallery of writing.
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Check out this story in today's Daily Iowan. Here's an excerpt: "ECO-Iowa City, a grant-funded local initiative,
impressed the city councilors during their Monday evening work session
with its efforts to improve sustainability in Iowa City ... Maeve Clark, information services coordinator at
the Iowa City Public Library, ...and Jen Jordan, recycling coordinator
from the city’s Public Works division, head the group; they told
councilors what they’ve accomplished so far ..."Read More
impressed the city councilors during their Monday evening work session
with its efforts to improve sustainability in Iowa City ... Maeve Clark, information services coordinator at
the Iowa City Public Library, ...and Jen Jordan, recycling coordinator
from the city’s Public Works division, head the group; they told
councilors what they’ve accomplished so far ..."Read More
Source: dailyiowan.com
The future of Iowa City soil will soon be in full bloom with the help of a local organization — and the Iowa City city councilors are diggin’ it.
Iowa City Public Library Save the date for The Big Read! Ray Bradbury's “Fahrenheit 451″ has been selected as The Big Read in Johnson County, with events scheduled this winter.
Source: newsroom.icpl.org
In one of literature’s most haunting denunciations of censorship, Ray Bradbury uses the materials of science fiction to tell the story of a fireman forced to burn books.Join your friends and neighbors as we read Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” together in February 2010. ...
Source: www.npr.org
The Kindle, the iPhone and other electronic book readers have changed the way many people read — and left some in the publishing industry desperate for new ways to make money. A new venture from the TheDailyBeast.com, will soon upend the traditional publishing model.
Iowa City Public Library The National Book Award finalists were announced today. Winners will be announced Nov. 18.
Source: dailyiowan.com
The achievements of Paul Engle continue to ripple through the Iowa City community. Some know him as a poet, others know him and his wife, Hualing Nieh Engle, as the founders of the International Writing Program. ...
