Monday, January 13th

Monday, January 13th at 10:00 am

Monday mornings are play time for ages 18 months - 3 years in the story time room. Join other families to socialize, work on early literacy skills through play, and meet new friends.

Monday, January 13th at 3:30 pm

At The Library After School (ATLAS) is an after-school program for 1st - 5th graders consisting of read-aloud stories, exploring the library, crafts, movies, STEM, and activities. The program will run weekly on Mondays from 3:30-5:00pm starting September 9. Registration required.

Monday, January 13th at 6:00 pm

Bring a pencil and some paper (or grab your laptop) and join a community of writers. Use the time to work on a project or join in on the prompts and games provided. The group meets from 6:00 - 7:00 pm on Monday nights whenever the library is open.

Tuesday, January 14th

Tuesday, January 14th at 3:30 pm

A partnership with Healthy Harvest, Little Locavores is a 4-part cooking class focusing on kitchen safety, recipe reading, where food comes from, and of course, cooking. The class is limited to 12 children in grades k-5. There is no cost to families to participate. Parents/Guardians may arrange for bus transportation from Clear Creek Elementary.

Tuesday, January 14th at 6:00 pm

This group is a quarterly opportunity to read, analyze and discuss important books that have made unique contributions in their fields. We will take an interdisciplinary approach that includes a wide range of areas such as history, law, business, literature, and biography. This group is open to the public at large and requires no on-going commitment. Members can simply come for whatever book they are interested in that quarter.

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger: It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school… Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

Facilitator: Bennett Smith is the President of the Clear Lake Library Foundation and is an instructor in history and political science at North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC). He is also an instructor in various lifelong learning programs including the NIACC lifelong Learning Institute; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Iowa State University and the LIFE program at Rochester Community and Technical College in Rochester, Minnesota. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in speech communication and a Master of Arts degree in history from Iowa State University. He is from Clear Lake, IA, and currently serves on the Clear Lake City Council.

Wednesday, January 15th

Wednesday, January 15th at 10:30 am

Story time for children ages 3-5 and their families is held at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday, year-round. Story time consists of stories, body movement activities, songs, and rhymes, helping children grow the skills they need to become lifelong readers. Young children and their grown-ups are invited to join us for these free weekly events!

Activities for younger children can be found on Mondays and Fridays - visit our calendar for more information.

Wednesday, January 15th at 6:00 pm

Books on Tap meets on the third Wednesday of every month at 6:00 pm at Lake Time Brewery. 

How to Know a Person by David Brooks: As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”

And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?

Thursday, January 16th

Thursday, January 16th at 1:00 pm

Cards & Creativity meets every Thursday that the library is open at 1:00 p.m. This is a weekly opportunity to meet up with others to play games or engage in your creative outlet of choice. You can work on fiber art, writing, music, drawing, or anything else that inspires you! We'll provide coloring supplies and cards for you to use!

Thursday, January 16th at 6:00 pm

Throw on your pajamas, bring a stuffie if you'd like, and come join us for a fun night story time at the library.

Friday, January 17th

Friday, January 17th at 10:30 am

Join us on Friday mornings at 10:30 a.m. for a fun, one-on-one program with bouncing rhymes, books, music, and group play just for our youngest patrons. This program is designed for ages birth to 18 months with a parent or caregiver. Older siblings may accompany.

Activities for older children are hosted throughout the week, please check our calendar for more details!

Saturday, January 18th

Saturday, January 18th from 11:00 - 1:00

Join us on the 3rd Saturday of each month for a couple hours of wordsmithing! Whether you’re a seasoned Scrabble enthusiast or just learning, this is a great opportunity to meet other word lovers and engage in some friendly competition!

Saturday, January 18th at 2:00 pm

Randy Lengeling presents a look at Wood’s personal life story, his artistic development and meteoric rise to international prominence as the leader of Regionalism, his controversial professorship at the State University of Iowa and his enduring legacy in art history, having lived nearly his whole life in Iowa. His story is an inspiration for all Americans, particularly Iowans, and a shining example that world-influencing achievements can occur in this “flyover” state that we call home. Original Grant Wood works may be available for viewing.

Randy Lengeling is a native Iowan who grew up in Carroll and received his entire medical education in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. In 1981, he started and continues his private practice in Dubuque with the Grand River Medical Group (formerly Dubuque Internal Medicine). Having been goal-directed in his medical training, he had little, if any, art history instruction and when then having the time and resources to travel, he attempted to satisfy this “incomplete education” by visiting art museums at every opportunity. While initially becoming a fan of Impressionism, upon one of many visits to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1984, he viewed a major retrospective of a fellow lifelong Iowan entitled “Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision.” Naively, he knew of and had seen Wood’s American Gothic there, but the inspiring story of this Iowan’s arduous journey from a poor farm boy to the creator of the overnight success that now rivals DaVinci’s Mona Lisa for international recognition, was an epiphany. From then on, his avocation has been collecting, researching, curating and lecturing on Iowa’s most famous artist and is a founding and active trustee and benefactor of the Dubuque Museum of Art, which has a world-class Grant Wood collection.

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