The Herrin City Library’s Annual Open House will be held on Sunday, April 28, 2019, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm at the Herrin City Library.  The theme is “Camp Herrin City Library: Hike on over for s’more fun!” Come join us for refreshments, fun activities, prizes & more @ the Herrin City Library. Learn about library resources, sign up for the Summer Reading program, and receive information about joining our Friends Group. The general public is welcome and admission is free. Prizes include gift certificates from Burger Nook, Subway, Primos, Wal-Mart, S.I. Bowl, AMC Movie theater, and Miners Box Seats.  Thank you to all our donors for supporting this event!

     The Friends of the Herrin City Library will hold their Annual Business Meeting at 1:30 pm in the library’s “Tony Galines Memorial Meeting Room.” This will be the 24th Annual Meeting of the Friends which was chartered in April 1995. At the Open House & Annual Meeting, the Friends will have their Annual Business Report for 2018-2019 Fiscal Year and Election of Officers for the 2018-2019 Fiscal Year. The Friends have done much for the Herrin City Library over the past twenty-three years. They have sponsored new computers, a receipt printers, new books for the Children’s Collection, Large Print titles for the Adult collection, library supplies, and helped with the purchase of special supplies, and sponsored the costs of the Summer Reading Program. Many thanks to the Friends of the Herrin City Library!